 | 1839 - 444 pages
...is the field I cultivate, was the admirable motto of an ancient sage— Lloyd's State Works. LIFE. Life is divided into three terms • that which was,...and from the present to live better for the future. NAPOLEON'S AMBITION. There is something as great in Napoleon's struggles after a defeat, as in his... | |
 | Juvenile miscellany - Children's literature - 1842 - 368 pages
...them to be resumed when they grow old; for, alas! old they may never be. Let us remind them that " Life is divided into three terms: that which was,...Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, "from the present to live better for the future." Let them remember that " a lie is a desperate cowardice;... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...is the best legacy a father can leave to his children. The slanderer's tongue is a poisoned dagger. Life is divided into three terms: that which was,...and from the present to live better for the future. Alexander often said : " I am not more indebted to Philip my father than to Aristotle my preceptor.... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1842 - 404 pages
...them to be resumed when they grow old ; for, alas ! old they may never be. Let us remind them that ' Life is divided into three terms : that which was,...Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, ' from the present to live better for the future.' Let them remember that ' a lie is a desperate cowardice... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - French language - 1851 - 506 pages
...is the best legacy a father can leave to his children. The slanderer's tongue is a poisoned dagger. Life is divided into three terms : that which was,...Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, aud from the present to live better for the future. Alexander often said : " I am not more indebted... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...is the best legacy a father can leave to his children. THE slanderous tongue is a poisoned dagger. LIFE is divided into three terms; that which was,...and from the present to live better for the future. ALEXANDER often said — " I am not more indebted to Philip, my father, than to Aristotle, my preceptor.... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1877 - 402 pages
...flesh and of th e world."— Coleridge, Life is divided into three terms: that wh. was, wh. is, wh. will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the...and from the present to live better for the future. b II. líogers. lending: au Or perhans there is some little monument of his better days, •wh. he... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...my boy ; but why do you ask such a question 1 ' ' Because I thought it was all shamrock over there.' Life is divided into three terms : — That which...and from the present to live better for the future. Time is like a ship that never anchors ; while I am on board, I had bettor do those things that may... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.— Horace BushntU. BH+ Oft in my way have I stood still, thongh hut a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 776 pages
...whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it. — Horace Biwhnru. Life is divided into three terms— that which was,...which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit hy the present, and from the present to live better for the future. Oft in my way have I stood still,... | |
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Life is divided into three terms: that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better for the future. 
