... bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed : it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine - Página 190editado por - 1845Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1829 - 566 páginas
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed : it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any time despaired of the... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 páginas
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed; it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any lime despaired of the... | |
| 1835 - 916 páginas
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed ; it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than lo boasl of our attainmenls. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 468 páginas
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed : it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any time despaired of the... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 páginas
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, le*t us not be blamed : it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any time despaired of the... | |
| William Dearden - 1844 - 284 páginas
...laudable way in which good Peter Blundell disposed of his wealth ! The picture I have drawn of Commerce exhibits, I am aware, its harsher features ; but in...up our defects than to boast of our attainments." I do not expect, nor have I tried, to please all ; but if I succeed in gaining a ' fit audience though... | |
| 1845 - 604 páginas
...William Dearden, author of the " Star Seer," etc. It is spoken of ae a work having many merit». " Among his (Mr. Dearden's) favorites," says the London...boast of our attainments.' " There can be no doubt sa to what the " wise man" Bays being a good rule of individual conduct ; but it is no justification... | |
| 1845 - 604 páginas
...features; but, in thus delineating and holding up these to view, I hope no one will blame me—for, as a wise man well observes, ' it is in general more...writing a whole book, (and not a small one,) about the eviU and vices which attend society in its progress towards civilization, and leaving it to be inferred,... | |
| 1845 - 604 páginas
...and holding up these to view, I hope no one will blame me — for, as a wise man well observée, ' it is in general more profitable to reckon up our...to what the " wise man" Bays being a good rule of individua! conduct ; but it is no justification for a man of genius, education, and taste, writing... | |
| 1852 - 590 páginas
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed: it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects, than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any lime despaired of the... | |
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