| Mormons - 1890 - 652 pages
...will take юопеу to provide for such cases. Who will be the next?— [En.] "DORMANT POWER. — Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
| Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1890 - 516 pages
...meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own 2 strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows... | |
| James Hay - Authors, Irish - 1891 - 390 pages
...not play till water is thrown into them.—Vol. vp 248. LATENT POWER. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
| Irish literature - 1893 - 386 pages
...loves best. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 452 pages
...meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...Paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.— Hare. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
| Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1896 - 536 pages
...agrees with mine : when we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 pages
...best. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.1 Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...offices ; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 466 pages
...creeping. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
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