 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 oldal
...offhand exertion of talents, they soon collapsed into the most frivolous and insignificant of men. It would be an extremely profitable thing to draw up a short and well -authenticated account of the habits of study of the most celebrated writers with whose style... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1860 - 352 oldal
...more disastrous to entertain it than in youth. Sir Sydney Smith has appropriately observed, that " it would be an extremely profitable thing, to draw up a short and well authenticated account of the habits of study of the most celebrated writers with whose style of... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1861 - 340 oldal
...charmed in seeing how much better they looked than they thought they would." 10. Sydney Smith said, "It would be an extremely profitable thing to draw...pernicious association of genius and idleness, by showing men that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians — men of the most brilu liant and... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 oldal
...off-hand exertion of talents, they soon collapsed into the most frivolous and insignificant of men. It would be an extremely profitable thing to draw...pernicious association of genius and idleness, by showing that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians — men' of the most brilliant and imposing... | |
 | Clerical bouquet - 1862 - 88 oldal
...appears to be given for any other purpose than the preservation of body. The Industry of Great Men. — It would be an extremely profitable thing to draw...them that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians — men of the most brilliant and imposing talents — have actually laboured as hard as... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 oldal
...frivolous and insignificant of men. O 2. It would be an extremely profitable thing to draw up a sbort and well-authenticated account of the habits of study...acquainted. It would go very far to destroy the absurd and pernicious3 association of genius and idleness, by showing that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1866 - 536 oldal
...frivolous, and not a few of being useful ; there is but one mode of being intellectually great. It weuld be an extremely profitable thing to draw up a short...them that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, — men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, — have actually laboured as hard... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 oldal
...off-hand exertion of talents, they soon collapsed into the most frivolous and insignificant of men. 2. It would be an extremely profitable thing to draw...pernicious association of genius and idleness, by showing that the greatest poets, orators," statesmen, and historians, — men of the most brilliant and imposing... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 oldal
...collapsed into the most frivolous and insignificant of men. 2. It would be an extremely profitable tiling to draw up a short and well-authenticated account...industry we happen to be most acquainted. It would go.very far to destroy the absurd and pernicious association of genius and idleness, by showing that... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 396 oldal
...off-hand exertion of talents, they soon collapsed* into the most frivolous and insignificant of men. 31 2. It would be an extremely profitable thing to draw...acquainted. It would go very far to destroy the absurd and pernicious3, association of genius and idleness, by showing that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen,... | |
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It would be an extremely profitable thing to draw up a short and well-authenticated account of the habits of study of the most celebrated writers with whose style of literary industry we happen to be most acquainted. It would go very far to destroy the... 
