 | James Burgh - 1775 - 540 trang
...fulfil ; and it is in the midft of fuch engagements, that they are moft likely to acquire or to prelerve their virtues. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties, not in engaging the repofe of a pacific ftation j penetration and wifdom are the fruits of experience, not... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 310 trang
...he had not been roused, kindled, and inflamed by the tyranny of Catiline, Verres, and Mark Anthony ? The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience,... | |
 | Jesse Clement - 1869 - 490 trang
...he had not been roused, kindled, and inflamed by the tyranny of Catiline, Verres, and Mark Anthony ? The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience,... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1884 - 564 trang
...he had not been roused, kindled, and inflamed by the tyranny of Catiline, Verres, and Mark Antony? The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience,... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 trang
...«-« **/A c»v» tyvva ' <*s&u,Cd Afi • ) & -r^ni x CHAPTER II WOODSMAN AND DIPLOMAT AT TWENTY-ONE ' "The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience,... | |
 | Laurel Hoffman - 1998 - 232 trang
...not been roused, kindled, and enflamed by the tyranny of Catiline, Millo, Verres, and Mark Anthony? The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruits of experience,... | |
 | Lynn Hudson Parsons - 1999 - 310 trang
...the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. . . . The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties." On November 13, 1779, La Sensible made its return to Europe, carrying three Adamses. Brother Charles... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 448 trang
...they are fometimes obliged to ful£1 ; and it is in the midft of fuch engagements that they are moft likely to acquire or to preferve their virtues. The...penetration and wifdom are the fruits of experience, not the leflbns of retirement and leifure; ardour and generofity are the qualities of a mind roufed and animated... | |
 | Preston T. King, Heather Devere - 2000 - 212 trang
...'polished' nations afford few opportunities for the development of the more important civic virtues since 'the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties, not in enjoying the repose of a pacific station' (Ferguson 1995: VL lV, 242). On the one hand, commerce provides opportunities... | |
 | Stephanie Dalvit-McPhillips - 2001 - 356 trang
...the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. . . . The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that -wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience,... | |
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It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. 
