 Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. Say rather it is like the natural unguent of the sea-fowl's plumage, which enables him to shed the rain that falls...  The North British review - 第 477 頁1860完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 頁
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 頁
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. Say rather jt is like the natural unguent of the sea-fowl's plumage, which enables him to shed the rain that falls... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 頁
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected ! ted up, and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when ho has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 頁
...companion affords great relicf. It is like taking the cat in your lap after holding the squirrel. VI. Talk about conceit as much as you like; it is to human char•cter what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. When one has had... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 頁
...many small talcnte and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as yon like, it is to human character what salt is to the...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one bas had all his conceit taken out of him, when he bas lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 頁
...this encouraging principle, how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected ! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...that falls on him, and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost nil his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 頁
...for this encouraging principle, how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like: it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost tdl his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | James Ball (conveyancing clerk.) - 1878 - 208 頁
...from a few examples. The ' Autocrat' has led the conversation to the subject of "Conceit." He says : " Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...that falls on him, and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lr all his illusions, his feathers will... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1879 - 510 頁
...encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected ! jjalk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 242 頁
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
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