 It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances : it did all very well before the flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for a hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its success...  The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Pagina 283geredigeerd door - 1850Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 596 pagina’s
...scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances. It did all very well before the Flood, when...live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterwards ; but at present 11 man waits, and doubts, a'ud hesitates, and consults his brothers, and... | |
 | 1851 - 462 pagina’s
...scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances : it did all very well before the Flood, when...live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterwards ; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and consults his brother, and his... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pagina’s
...scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances: it did all very well before the Flood, when...live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterwards; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and consults his brother, and his... | |
 | 1851 - 350 pagina’s
...not do to he perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances it did all very well hefore the flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended puhlication for a hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries... | |
 | 1852 - 374 pagina’s
...scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances : it did all very well before the Flood, when...live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterwards ; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and consults his brother, and his... | |
 | David Thomas - 1882 - 446 pagina’s
...well as we can. It will not do to be ^perpetually calculating risks and adjusting nice chances; it did very well before the flood, when a man could consult...and fifty years, and then live to see its success afterwards; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and consults his brother, and his particular friends,... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 pagina’s
...we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances : it did ah1 very well before the Flood, when a man could consult his friends upon i '\ intended publication for a hundred and fifty years, a then live to see its success for six or... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 882 pagina’s
...perpetually calculating risks, und adjusting nice chances. It did all very well before the Hood, v. lu IL a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for a hundred and liliy years, and then live to seo its success for six or seven centuries afterward ; but ut present,... | |
 | 1856 - 622 pagina’s
...perpetually calculating tasks, and adjusting nice chances: it did very well before the flood, where л man could consult his friends upon an intended publication...and fifty years, and then live to see its success afterwards ; but at present, a man waits and doubts and hesitates and consults hisbrother, and his... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pagina’s
...scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances : it did all very well before the Flood, when...consult his friends upon an intended publication for a h.uudrc<3L a.\\>i fifty years, and then live to see its success for avx. OT «ft\«ft. csxvVxries afterward... | |
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