 | Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 906 pages
...whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine; yet the study of a successful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of this same uncertainty. The march of improvement... | |
 | Benton County (Ind.) - 1899 - 642 pages
...whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine. Yet the study of a successful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of this same uncertainty. So much in excess of... | |
 | Leigh Hadley Irvine - California - 1905 - 774 pages
...circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine. Yet the study of a sue-, cessful life is none the less profitable by reason of the...nature who seeks to trace the history of the rise of Alden W. Campbell, a typical American of the best class. He is yet a young man but has achieved a success... | |
 | Timothy Edward Howard - Saint Joseph County (Ind.) - 1907 - 886 pages
...whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine ; yet the study of a successful life is...majority of cases, it is found that exceptional ability supplemented by close application and earnest purpose, forms the real success which so many have envied.... | |
 | Timothy Edward Howard - Saint Joseph County (Ind.) - 1907 - 822 pages
...or whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, is impossible to clearly determine ; yet the study of a successful life is none the less profitable, as it is found that in the majority of cases exceptionable ability, supplemented by earnest purpose... | |
 | Abraham J. Baughman - Morrow County (Ohio) - 1911 - 486 pages
...graduate of the class of 1909 of the Misses Masters School at Dobbs Ferry, New York. H. FLICKINOER. — Whether the elements of success in life are innate...nature who seeks to trace the history of the rise of Finley H. Flickinger, a typical American of the best class. As superintendent of the Cardington schools... | |
 | Robert Sidney Douglass - Missouri - 1912 - 850 pages
...Alvina, Nellie H. and Cora V., also Johanna, who died when about ten years of age. HARRY L. MACHEN. Whether the elements of success in life are innate...it is found that exceptional ability, amounting to genins, perhaps, was the real secret of the pre-eminence which many envied. So it appears to the student... | |
 | William Richard Cutter - New England - 1914 - 742 pages
...whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine ; yet the study of a successful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of this same uncertainty. So much in excess of... | |
 | John Woolf Jordan - Delaware County (Pa.) - 1914 - 498 pages
...whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine, yet the study of a successful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of the same uncertainty. A man who measured up... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - Virginia - 1915 - 774 pages
...whether they are quickened by a process of circumstantial development, it is impossible to clearly determine, yet the study of a successful life is none the less interesting and profitable by reason of the existence of the same uncertainty. A man who measured up... | |
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... determine. Yet the study of a successful life is none the less profitable by reason of the existence of this uncertainty and in the majority of cases it is found that exceptional ability, amounting to genius, perhaps, was the real secret of the preeminence... 