 | Samuel Osgood - 1842 - 426 pages
...seeks to know if his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close, — if the evening of his days shall be genial and blissful, — should ask not for broad acres, or towering edifices, or laden coffers. Perverted Old Age may grasp these with the unyielding clutch... | |
 | 1842 - 330 pages
...seeks to know if his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close, — if the evening of his days shall be genial and blissful, — should ask not for broad acres, or towering edifices, or laden coffers. Perverted Old Age may grasp these with the unyielding clutch... | |
 | Frederick A. Moore - 1850 - 330 pages
...his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close — if the evening of hia days shall be genial and blissful — should ask not for broad acres, or towering edifices, or laden coffers. Perverted old age may grasp these with the unyielding clutch... | |
 | 1854 - 338 pages
...his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close — if the evening of Vna days shall be genial and blissful — should ask not for broad acres, or towering edifices, or laden coffers. Perverted old age may grasp these with the unyielding clutch... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1893 - 446 pages
...Whoever seeks to know if his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close, if the evening of his days shall be genial and blissful,...harmonized his erring passions ? Has he lived a true life ? " These words indicate the trend of the writer's life,—to permanent values. That he may have carried... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1893 - 464 pages
...Whoever seeks to know if his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close, if the evening of his days shall be genial and blissful,...enjoyments. Ask, rather, Has he mastered and harmonized his errjng passions ? Has he lived a true life ? " These words indicate the trend of the writer's life,... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - 1902 - 710 pages
...Whoever seeks to know if his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close, if the evening of his days shall be genial and blissful,...harmonized his erring passions ? Has he lived a true life ? " These words indicate the trend of the writer's life,— to permanent values. That he may have carried... | |
 | Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - 1910 - 298 pages
...seeks to know if his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close — if the evening of his days shall be genial and blissful — should ask not for broad acres, or towering edifices, or laden coffers. Perverted old age may grasp these with the unyielding clutch... | |
 | Charles Clinton Peters - 1918 - 460 pages
...seeks to know if his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close — if the evening of his days shall be genial and blissful — should ask not for broad acres or towering edifices, or laden coffers. Perverted old age may grasp these with the unyielding clutch... | |
 | 1873 - 342 pages
...seeks to know if his career has been prosperous and brightening from its outset to its close, — if the evening of his days shall be genial and blissful, — should ask not for broad acres, or towering edifices, or laden coffers. Perverted old age may grasp these with the unyielding clutch... | |
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... mansion. He has lived to little purpose, indeed, if he has not long since realized that wealth and renown are not the true ends of exertion, nor their absence the conclusive proof of ill-fortune. Whoever seeks to know if his career has been prosperous... 