The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality... Report - Page 262by New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1871Full view - About this book
| New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in the world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities,...will make a two-legged creature a man without it." The expression of this opinion is exaggerated, yet it is substantially correct. There are too many... | |
| 1862 - 802 pages
...invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do antthing that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no...will make a two-legged creature a man without it." [tmotrs antr |le«nt MR. PHILIP WHITEHEAD WAS born on the border where the Scottish and English counties... | |
| Baptists - 1878 - 300 pages
...that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. — Bulwer Lytton. . Energy will do anything that can be done in this world ;...circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged animal a man without it. — Goethe. |)ottic Sections. NIGHT AMONG THE HILLS. So stiU ! So still t... | |
| Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination. This will do anythingthatcan be done, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities,...will make a two-legged creature a man without it. Sir T. Buxion. SOLIDITY.— No decorations of the edifice can compensate for the want of solidity at... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1861 - 306 pages
...And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time." Listen to Sir Fowell Buxton : — " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the...will make a two-legged creature a man without it." Above all, I would urge decision for God. You have not yet professed Christ ; now, once for all, and... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Abolitionists - 1848 - 646 pages
...invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done In this world ; and no talents. no...will make a two-legged creature a man without it"— (Extract qfa Letter from Sir T. Fowell Burton.) LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. THE NEW YORK... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1848 - 628 pages
...death or victory. That quality will tio any thing that can be done in this world ; and no talenti. no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it."— (Eilract of a Letter from Sir T. Powell Button.) LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1848. • PREFACE.... | |
| Charles Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 534 pages
...invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done in this world; and no talents, no...circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creatut* • man without it."— (Extract of a Letter from Sir T. Powell Buiton.) PHILADELPHIA: HENRY... | |
| Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy—invincible determination—a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That...will make a two-legged creature a man without it." This is worthy to be the motto of every man, in every calling or sphere of life. With it he may do... | |
| Thomas Binney - 1851 - 166 pages
...and then DEATH or VICTORY. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world ; — and Nd TALENTS, NO CIRCUMSTANCES, NO OPPORTUNITIES, WILL MAKE A TWO-LEGGED CREATURE A MAN WITHOUT IT." There; write that upon your souls, young men ! Let it be a text on which you may preach to• yourselves;... | |
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