 ... demands. The fineness of mind, which is created or increased by the study of letters, or the admiration of the arts, is supposed to incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained ; as a nicely tempered edge applied to...  The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie ... - Page 170by Henry Mackenzie - 1854 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1854 - 504 pages
...incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained; as a nicely tempered edge, applied to a coarse and rugged material, is...successfully achieved. A young man, destined for law or com merce, is advised to look only into his folio of precedents, or his method of book-keeping ; and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1855 - 468 pages
...incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained ; as a nicely tempered edge, applied to a coarse and rugged material, is...successfully achieved. A young man, destined for law or com merce, is advised to look only into his folio of precedents, or his method of book-keeping ; and... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1856 - 324 pages
...incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained; as a nicely tempered edge applied to a coarse and rugged material is unable...benevolent goddess, under whose protection the honors ol station and the blessings of opulence are to be attained; while learning and genius are proscribed... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 pages
...incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained ; as a nicely tempered edge, applied to a coarse and rugged material, is...that benevolent goddess, under whose protection the favors of station, and the blessings of opulence, are to be attained ; while learning and genius are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1856 - 372 pages
...incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained ; as a nicely tempered edge applied to a coarse and rugged material is unable...that benevolent goddess, under whose protection the honours of station and the blessings of opulence are to be attained ; while learning and genius are... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 pages
...incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained ; as a nicely tempered edge, applied to a coarse and rugged material, is...successfully achieved. A young man, destined for law or com merce, is advised to look only into his folio of precedents, or his method of book-keeping ; and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1858 - 466 pages
...merce, is advised to look only into his folio of precedents, or his method of cook-keeping ; and dnlness is pointed to his homage, as that benevolent goddess,...of station and the blessings of opulence are to be obtained ; while learning and genius are proscribed, a» leading their votaries to barren indigence... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1863 - 446 pages
...more common instrument would have successfully achieved. A young man, destined for law or com merce, is advised to look only into his folio of precedents, or his method of cook-keeping ; and dulness is pointed to his homage, as that benevolent goddess, under whose protection... | |
 | Joseph Edwin Frobisher - Elocution - 1867 - 276 pages
...incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained ; as a nicely tempered edge applied to a coarse and rugged material is unable...of precedents, or his method of book-keeping ; and dulne?s is pointed to his homage, as that benevolent goddess, under whose protection the honors of... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1834 - 320 pages
...incapacitate a man for the drudgery by which professional eminence is gained ; as a nicely tempered edge applied to a coarse and rugged material is unable...to look only into his folio of precedents, or his me'.hod of book-keeping ; and dulness is pointed to his homage, as that benevolent goddess, under whose... | |
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