 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...spent upon their work, were obliged to change its economy and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds : I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | Gilbert Milligan Tucker - 1895 - 258 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its ceconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds : I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 pages
...contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what could it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds : I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 pages
...contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what could it avail me ? I have protracted my work till most...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds : I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, haviug little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | John St. Loe Strachey - 1897 - 356 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its economy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | 1897 - 592 pages
...touching language in the Preface to the great Dictionary of Johnson . "I may surely , ' ' he says, ' ' be contented without the praise of perfection, which...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. ' ' In youth we are possessed by the spirit of emulation, and it would be wrong entirely to discourage... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 pages
...upon their work, were obliged to change its oeconomy, and give their second edition another form, I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection,...grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds : I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...containing twenty etymologies, sent him by Dr Pearce, bishop of Rochester. edition another form ; I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection...grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds : I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | Ida Ehrlich - 2005 - 587 pages
...following excerpt underlining all those words that contain keys you have already learned. At the tune when he was concluding his very eloquent Preface,...grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquility, having little to fear or hope from censure or from... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...philologist. Limits ol Stale Action, ch. 3 (1792; repr. 1 854; If. and ed. by JW Burrow, 1 969). 3 /producer I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to tear or hope from censure or from... | |
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. 
