 All you want, at present, is quiet ; with this, if your ardor aqunevctv can be kept in, till you are stronger, you will make noise enough. How happy the task, my noble, amiable boy, to caution you only against pursuing too much all those liberal and praiseworthy...  The London Quarterly Review - Pàgina 2961827Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1905 - 1170 pàgines
...magniloquent style. "All you want at present," wrote he, "is quiet ; with this, if your ardour apiareveiv can be kept in till you are stronger, you will make...things, to which less happy natures are perpetually 1905.] William Pitt the Younger. to be spurred and driven ! . . . You have time to spare ; consider... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1879 - 416 pàgines
...recovered from a severe illness, he was thus touchingly addressed by his justly gratified father : — " How happy the task, my noble, amiable boy, to caution...and praiseworthy things to which less happy natures have perpetually to be spurred and driven. I will not tease you with too long a lecture in favour of... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 322 pàgines
...health, I cannot help being a little in pain lest you should make more haste than good speed to be well. How happy the task, my noble, amiable boy, to caution...are perpetually to be spurred and driven. I will not tease you with too long a lecture in favor of inaction and a competent stupidity, your two best tutors... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 340 pàgines
...health, I cannot help being a little in pain lest you should make more haste than good speed to be well. How happy the task, my noble, amiable boy, to caution...are perpetually to be spurred and driven. I will not tease you with too long a lecture in favor of inaction and a competent stupidity, your two best tutors... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 368 pàgines
...cannot help being a little in pain lest you should make _*..« more haste than good speed to be well. How happy the task, my noble, amiable boy, to caution...are perpetually to be spurred and driven. I will not tease you with too long a lecture in favor of inaction and a competent stupidity, your two best tutors... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 324 pàgines
...want at present," he writes to him on one occasion, " is quiet ; with this if your ardour apiaTcvfiv can be kept in till you are stronger, you will make...praiseworthy things, to which less happy natures are to be perpetually spurred and driven ! I will not tease you with too long a letter in favour of inaction... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1906 - 410 pàgines
...magniloquent style. " All you want at present," wrote he, " is quiet ; with this, if your ardour apiffreveiv can be kept in till you are stronger, you will make...happy natures are perpetually to be spurred and driven ! . . . You have time to spare ; consider there is but the Encyclopedia, and when you have mastered... | |
 | 1837 - 594 pàgines
...virtue and useful knowledge is now begun, and may the favor of heaven smile upon the noble career ! How happy the task, my noble, amiable boy, to caution...natures are perpetually to be spurred and driven. Adieu again, and again, sweet boy! and if you acquire health and strength every time I wish them to... | |
 | 1835 - 1058 pàgines
...the chase of learning. All you want, at present, is quiet.*" With this, if your ardour, afiirri-jui, can be kept in till you are stronger, you will make...the task, my noble, amiable boy, to caution you only iittainst pursuing too much all those liberal and praiseworthy things, to which less happy natures... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 502 pàgines
...say) in the chase of learning. All you want at present, is quiet ; with this, if your ardor aftrnveit can be kept in, till you are stronger, you will make noise enough.' ' Hayes, Sept. 2, 1774. 'I write, my dearest William, the post just going out, only to thank you for... | |
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