 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1821 - 280 trang
...when God himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself. •XXXVII. AMBITION is to the mind, what the cap is to the falcon...tower, by reason of our blindness. But alas, when Aye are at the summit of a vain ambition, we are also at the depth of real misery. We are placed where... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1824 - 286 trang
...God himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an ohserver like myself." XXXVII. Amhition is to the mind, what the cap is to the falcon ; it hlinrlsas first, and then compels us totower, hy reason of our hlindness.. But alas, when we are at... | |
 | 1825 - 538 trang
...not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy ; but I will remember, ainl this I owe to myself. HI;. Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon...it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower, rby reason of our blindness. But, alas, when we are at the summit of a vain ambition, we are also at... | |
 | 1837 - 352 trang
...into which they have fallen by accident, or been led by affection. — Lord Kaimes. 701. Ambition. — Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon...tower by reason of our blindness. But, alas ! when we arc at the summit of a vain ambition, we are also at the depth of real misery. We are placed where... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 trang
...he that is warned by all the folly of others, has perhaps attained the soundest wisdom.—Ib. 679. Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon;...summit of a vain ambition, we are also at the depth of misery. We are placed where time cannot improve, but must impair us; where chance and change cannot... | |
 | lady Catherine Stepney - 1838 - 328 trang
...hope ; but some demon whispered, — follow on. CHAPTER VII. " Ambition is to the mind what the hood is to the falcon, it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. When we are at the summit of a vain ambition, we are also in the depth of real misery : in short, by... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 trang
...hieroglyphics of Nature. Амлггюк i» te the mind1 what the cap is to the falcon ; it fib nds us first, and then compels us to tower, by reason of our blindness. WHEN penetration is guided by malevolence and bate, it sees only that which is superficial; but when... | |
 | 1856 - 378 trang
...most magnificent in tin' world, originally the Tower of Babel J [ ('s) Page 20. Ambition, says COLTON, is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds...compels us to tower, by reason of our blindness.] (is) " The Greek hath surxamed, ORDER." Page 28. Koepos [literally signifying a set form, order, or... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton - 1861 - 268 trang
...established by those two sure and sateless destroyers of all other earthly things, — Time and Death. AMBITION is to the mind, what the cap is to the falcon...us to tower, by reason of our blindness. But, alas ! whea yre are at the summit of a vain ambition, we are also at the depth of real misery. We are placed... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 trang
...brilliants ; and the other pure, like real jewels. POETRY is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature. AMBITION is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon, — it first blinds us, and then compels us to tower, by reason of our blindness. A TRULY good memory is forgetful... | |
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AMBITION is to the mind, what the cap is to the falcon ; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower, by reason of our blindness. 
