 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...goes by wager-of-battle in this world ; that strength, well understood, is the measure of all worth. Give a thing time ; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom ; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower, two-hundred... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 pages
...goes by wager of battle in this world; that strength, well understood, is the measure of all worth. Give a thing time ; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom ; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower, two hundred... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pages
...goes by wager of battle in this world ; that strength, well understood, is the measure of all worth. Give a thing time ; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower, two hundred... | |
 | 1896 - 858 pages
...goes by wager of battle in this world, that etreng'h, well understood, is the measure of all work. Give a thing time, if it can succeed, it is a right thing." Yes ; but a little further on he adds, " The weak thing, weaker than a child, becomes strong one day,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...goes by wager-of-battle in this world; that strength, well understood, is the measure of all worth. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower, twohundred... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 pages
...goes by wager of battle in this world; that itrengih, well understood, is the measure of all worth. Give a thing time ; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondotn ; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower, two hundred... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...go« by wager of battle in this world ; that itnugth, well understood, is the measure of iM lorth. Give a thing time ; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American >iiondom ; and at that little fact of the sailing 'if the Mayßoirtr, two hundred... | |
 | 1863 - 500 pages
...familiar with one of those subtle principles, it will help ua to explain, and remember, more facts tliau we can learn in a whole summer. I think history also..."Give a thing time ; if it can succeed, it is a right tiling." The proverb that ' Honesty is the best policy ' expresses a belief in the eame proposition.... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...goes by wager of. battle in this world; that strength, well understood, is the measure of all worth. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing." 2 " I care little about the sword: I will allow a thing to struggle for itself in the world, with any... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...goes by wager of battle in this world; that strength, well understood, is the measure of all worth. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing." 2 " I care little about the sword: I will allow a thing to struggle for itself in the world, with any... | |
| |
I say sometimes, that all goes by wager of battle in this world; that strength, well understood, is the measure of all worth. Give a thing time ; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. 
