 Like a vast estate, heaped up by the labor and industry of one man, which seldom survives the third generation, power, gained by patient assiduity, by a faithful and regular discharge of its attendant duties, soon gets above its own origin. Intoxicated...  Niles' National Register - Page 3161812Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - 1909 - 570 pages
...patient assiduity, by a faithful and regular discharge of its attendant duties, soon gets above its own origin. Intoxicated with their own greatness, the...you may build up this vast structure of patronage; but "lay not the flattering unction to your souls:" you will never live to enjoy the succession. You... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 582 pages
...seizes upon its possessors — they fall from the dizzy height through the giddiness of their own heads. Will not the same causes produce the same effects...souls" — you will never live to enjoy the succession. You sign your political death warrant. An insinuation has fallen from the gentleman from Tennessee... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 398 pages
...patient assiduity, by a faithful and regular discharge of its attendant duties, soon gets above its own origin. Intoxicated with their own greatness, the...but "lay not the flattering unction to your souls," 230 you will never live to enjoy the succession: you sign your political death warrant. . . . This... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1922 - 716 pages
...patient assiduity, by a faithful and regular discharge of its attendant duties, soon gets above its own origin. Intoxicated with their own greatness, the...souls'; you will never live to enjoy the succession; you sign your political death warrant. . . . "I am not surprised at the war-spirit which is manifesting... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1995 - 236 pages
...patient assiduity, by a faithful and regular discharge of its attendant duties, soon gets above its own origin. Intoxicated with their own greatness, the...souls"; you will never live to enjoy the succession; you sign your political death warrant. . . . I am not surprised at the war-spirit which is manifesting... | |
 | Jennifer Silate - 2004 - 68 pages
...patient assiduity, by a faithful and regular discharge of its attendant duties, soon gets above its own origin. Intoxicated with their own greatness the Federal...souls" — you will never live to enjoy the succession. You sign your political death warrant . . . This war of conquest, a war for the acquisition of territory... | |
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