 | 1814 - 550 pagina’s
...his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable ; but, in hit hand, simplicity marked their development, and success vindicated their adoption. His person partook the character of his mind ; if the ope never yielded in the cabinet, the other never bent in the field.... | |
 | John Hampdon - 1815 - 638 pagina’s
...impossible, and his plans absolutely impracticable—but, in his hands, simplicity marked their developement, and success vindicated their adoption. His person partook of the character of his mind—if the one never yielded in the cabinet, the other never bent in the field. Nature had no obstacles... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 234 pagina’s
...was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their developemeut, and success vindicated their adoption. His person partook the character of his mind —... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1817 - 680 pagina’s
...was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable ; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their developement, and success vindicated their adoption. " His person partook the character of his mind... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1820 - 296 pagina’s
...was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable ; but,...success vindicated their adoption. His person partook the character of his mind— if the one never yielded in the cabinet, the other never bent in the field.... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1822 - 324 pagina’s
...was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable ; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their developement, and success vindicated their adoption. His person partook the character of his mind —... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - 1824 - 180 pagina’s
...hand, simplicity marked their developement, and success vindicated their adoption. His person partook the character of his mind ; if the one never yielded in the cabinet, the oilier never bent in the field. Nature had no obstacles which he did not surmount ; in space, BO opposition... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pagina’s
...it was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects, his combination appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable ; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their devdopement, and success vindicated their adoption. His person partook the character of his mind—... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pagina’s
...was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects^ his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their developement, and success vindicated their adoption. ' His person partook the character of his mind... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pagina’s
...was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable ; but in his hands, simplicity marked their developement, and success vindicated their adoption. His person partook the character of his mind ;... | |
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But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent ; decision flashed upon his councils ; and it was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable; but,... 
