 If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes — some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Страница 2831850Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1854 - 696 страници
...upon a table, of different shapes — some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — und the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of...that we can say they were almost made for each other. There is one circumstance I would preach up morning, noon, and night, to young persons, for the management... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 страници
...some square, some oblong,—and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has...that we can say they were almost made for each other. duct of the. understanding, and the best modes of acquiring knowledge, some men may be disposed to... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 страници
...some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has...the oblong into the triangular, and a square person haa squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done,... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 страници
...some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has...done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were made for each other. — Sydney Smith. TREAD OF THE CAMEL. What always struck me as something extremely... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 страници
...some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has...that we can say they were almost made for each other. But while I am descanting so minutely upon the conduct of the understanding, and the best modes of... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1855 - 400 страници
...oblong, — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall general!' find that the triangular person has got into the square...that we can say they were almost made for each other. But while I am descanting so minutely upon the conduct of the understanding, and the best modes of... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1855 - 408 страници
...oblong, — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall general' find that the triangular person has got into the square...that we can say they were almost made for each other. But while I am descanting so minutely upon the conduct of the understanding, and the best modes of... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 502 страници
...some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has...that we can say they were almost made for each other. REWARDS OF KNOWLEDGE. BUT while I am descanting so minutely upon the conduct of the understanding,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 страници
...some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has...the- triangular, and a square person has squeezed liimself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1859 - 282 страници
...square, some 11 • oblong,—and the persons acting these parts by bite of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has...that we can say they were almost made for each other. • TALENT—ACQUIRED—"What we want in natural abilities may generally and easily be made up in industry;... | |
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