 Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling — a falling and a catching of ourselves...  The Review of Reviews - Page 251edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling — a falling... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 pages
...precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right ; he will grow daily more and more right. It...ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic3 of all things a man does. In conclusipn, I will remind you that it is not by books alone,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 236 pages
...precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling, — a falling... | |
 | 1879 - 336 pages
...precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right, he will grow daily more 'and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling — a falling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1882 - 56 pages
...is precious instruction tn be got by finding we were wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to b^ right; he will grow daily more and more right. It...ourselves before we come actually to the pavement I It la emblematic of all things a man does." 3 9015 03076 3737 Single number*, mailing price, 19 cent*... | |
 | John Thain Davidson - 1884 - 304 pages
...written by the late Thomas Carlyle to a young man, and bearing date Chelsea, I3th March, 1843: — "In conclusion, I will remind you that it is not by books alone, nor by books chiefly, that a man becomes in all points a man. Study to do faithfully whatsoever thing... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1886 - 140 pages
...precious instruction to be got by finding that we were wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right; he will grow daily more 'and more right. It...themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling, and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement ! It is emblematic of all things... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 pages
...instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, and he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling, a falling and... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...were wrong. STONES 13 jt is at b0ttom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves. 14. Our very walking is an incessant falling ; a falling...pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does. 15. It is no such heinous matter to fall afflicted, as being down to lie dejected. 16. It may be no... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 410 pages
...precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right ; he will grow daily more and more right. It...pavement ! It is emblematic of all things a man does. 10. Shortly after this event, the city of Thebea was afflicted with a monster which infested the highroad.... | |
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