 Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. Say rather it is like the natural unguent of the sea-fowl's plumage, which enables him to shed the rain that falls...  The North British review - Side 4771860Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 sider
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 sider
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. Say rather jt is like the natural unguent of the sea-fowl's plumage, which enables him to shed the rain that falls... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sider
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected ! ted up, and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when ho has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 sider
...companion affords great relicf. It is like taking the cat in your lap after holding the squirrel. VI. Talk about conceit as much as you like; it is to human char•cter what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. When one has had... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 sider
...many small talcnte and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as yon like, it is to human character what salt is to the...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one bas had all his conceit taken out of him, when he bas lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 sider
...this encouraging principle, how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected ! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...that falls on him, and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost nil his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 sider
...for this encouraging principle, how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like: it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost tdl his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | James Ball (conveyancing clerk.) - 1878 - 208 sider
...from a few examples. The ' Autocrat' has led the conversation to the subject of "Conceit." He says : " Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...that falls on him, and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lr all his illusions, his feathers will... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1879 - 510 sider
...encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected ! jjalk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 242 sider
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
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