 | 1855 - 494 pàgines
...inducements as these, any men of eminent ability to whom any other patn in life is open ? For, 2d. The money to be earned is the solitary attraction....is absorbed in that of his superior. He must devote all his talents, and all his learning, to measures, some of which he will assuredly disapprove, without... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment - 1868 - 240 pàgines
...service," therefore, represents a thing heterogeneous in its nature, embracing posts of a verу diflerent status and widely varying value. The object of this...dream of fame to be acquired in that capacity. He labors in an obscurity as profound as it is unavoidable. His official character is absorbed in that... | |
 | 1872 - 614 pàgines
...inducements as these, any men of eminent ability to whom any other path of life is open ? For 2nd. The money to be earned is the solitary attraction....is absorbed in that of his superior. He must devote all his talents, and all his learning, to measures, some of which he will assuredly disapprove, without... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 620 pàgines
...inducements as these, any men of eminent ability to whom any other path of life is open ? For 2nd. The money to be earned is the solitary attraction....is absorbed in that of his superior. He must devote all his talents, and all his learning, to measures, some of which he will assuredly disapprove, without... | |
 | Robert Moses - 1914 - 340 pàgines
...prizes are not worthy the pursuit of the university honors' man. Money is the only attraction. He labors in an obscurity as profound as it is unavoidable. His official character is absorbed in his superior's. He must listen silently to praises for others which his pen has won for them. No man... | |
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The money to be earned is the solitary attraction. A clerk in a Public Office may not even dream of fame to be acquired in that capacity. He labours in an obscurity as profound as it is unavoidable. His official character is absorbed in that of his superior.... 