 In short, you must not attempt to enlarge your ideas, or polish your taste, or refine your sentiments ; but must keep on, in one beaten track, without turning aside, either to the right hand or to the left. ' But I cannot submit to drudgery like this....  The Rhode Island Educational Magazine - Page 179edited by - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1867 - 380 pages
...right hand or to the left. " But I cannot submit to drudgerr like this. I feel a spirit above it." T is well ; be above it then ; only do not repine that...and reflection. Bestow these, and you shall be wise. God help us ! what a poor world this would be, ' this were the true doctrine. Launch thy bark, mariner... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...to the right or to the left. " But you say, I cannot submit to drudgery like this ; I feel a spirit above it." 'Tis well, be above it then ; only do not...you are not rich. Is knowledge the pearl of price in your estimation ? That, too, may be purchased by steady application, and long solitary study and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...either to the right hand or to the left. "But I cannot submit to drudgery like this; I feel a spirit above it." 'Tis well : be above it, then ; only do..." But," says the man of letters, "what a hardship is it that many an illiterate fellow who cannot construe the motto of the arms on his coach, shall... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 pages
...right hand or the left. " But," you say, " I cannot submit to drudgery like this ; I feel a spirit above it." 'Tis well, be above it then ; only do not repine because you are not rich. Is knowledge the pearl of price in your estimation ? That, too, may be purchased... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1870 - 380 pages
...must not even expect that he will be what yju are now. ery like this. I feel a spirit above it." T is well ; be above it then ; only do not repine that...and reflection. Bestow these, and you shall be wise. God help us ! what a poor world this would be, if this were the true doctrine. Launch thy bark, mariner... | |
 | William Adams - Thanksgiving Day - 1873 - 392 pages
...either to the right hand or to the left. ' But I cannot submit to drudgery like this — I feel a spirit above it.' 'Tis well : be above it, then ; only do not repine that you are not rich. ' But is it not some reproach upon the economy of Providence that such a one, who' is a mean, ignorant... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Ethics - 1874 - 322 pages
...hand or to the left. ' But I cannot submit to drudgery like this ; I feel a spirit above it.' "Pis well ; be above it, then ; only do not repine that you are not rich." " The man whose tender sensibility of conscience and s'riot regard to the rules of morality make him... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...aside to the right hand or to the left. " But I cannot submit to drudgery like this ; I feel a spirit above it." "Tis well : be above it then ; only do...wise. "But," says the man of letters, "what a hardship is it that many an illiterate fellow who cannot construe the motto of the arms on his coach shall raise... | |
 | James Henry Potts - Philosophy and religion - 1889 - 806 pages
...to the right hand or to the left. ' But I can not submit to drudgery like this — I feel a spirit above it.' ' Tis well : be above it then ; only do not repine that you arc not rich." Don't make great haste to be rich. Remember the words of King Solomon : " He that maketh... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...hand or to the left. " But I cannot submit to drudgery like this — I feel a spirit above it." "Pis well : be above it, then ; only do not repine that...wise. " But (says the man of letters) what a hardship is it that many an illiterate fellow who cannot construe the motto of the arms on his coach, shall... | |
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