 Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer,...  The Indiana School Journal - Page 471877Full view - About this book
 | Landon Taylor - Methodists - 1883 - 540 pages
...other times the country may have heard with dismay that the soldier was abroad. It will not be so now. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad—a personage less imposing; in the eyes of some, perhaps... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...ruins. Letter to Tliomai Raitei, Mny 25, 1835. BROUGHAM. — WILLARD. 497 LORD BROUGHAM. 1779-1868. Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant.... | |
 | Shorthand - 1896 - 678 pages
...unbilled qualities of industry, ability, and integrity of character. LORD BROUGHAM ON THE SOLDIER. (KF.Y.) Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, — a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant.... | |
 | Texas State Teachers Association - Education - 1890 - 86 pages
...the most courageous, and that the schoolmaster's rod is more powerful than the sceptre of a king. " Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage — a personage less imposing, in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant.... | |
 | Education - 1912 - 810 pages
...and lacerated that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. — General Sherman. Let the soldier be abroad If he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another i>ersonage — a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant.... | |
 | J. M. Dixon - 1891 - 392 pages
...wrongly, used in the opposite sense — to imply that the schoolmaster is absent, and is much needed. Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage— a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignif1cant.... | |
 | Alfred Ewen Fletcher - Education - 1892 - 580 pages
...phrase of his has become historic, and that had to do with education. Speaking on January 29, 1828, he said : — ' Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age ; there is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant... | |
 | Robert M. King - School management and organization - 1894 - 348 pages
...noted saying of Lord Brougham, which has become proverbial throughout the English-speaking world : " Let the soldier be abroad if he will ; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a person less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former. — Horace Mann. Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The... | |
 | 1901 - 172 pages
...Goderich objected to this expression. Mr. Brougham said he would judge the new ministry by their acts. "Let the soldier be abroad if he will. He can do nothing in this age. There is another in this age, a personage less imposing; in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant.... | |
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