 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - Liczba stron: 624
...purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in the world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities,...make a two-legged creature a man without it." The expression of this opinion is exaggerated, yet it is substantially correct. There are too many difficulties... | |
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 802
...invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do antthing that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no...will make a two-legged creature a man without it." [tmotrs antr |le«nt MR. PHILIP WHITEHEAD WAS born on the border where the Scottish and English counties... | |
 | 1744 - Liczba stron: 596
...and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination. This will do anythingthatcan be done, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities,...will make a two-legged creature a man without it. Sir T. Buxion. SOLIDITY.— No decorations of the edifice can compensate for the want of solidity at... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1861 - Liczba stron: 306
...on the sand of time." Listen to Sir Fowell Buxton : — " The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, — between...will make a two-legged creature a man without it." Above all, I would urge decision for God. You have not yet professed Christ ; now, once for all, and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - Liczba stron: 646
...invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do any thing that can be done In this world ; and no talents. no...will make a two-legged creature a man without it"— (Extract qfa Letter from Sir T. Fowell Burton.) LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. THE NEW YORK... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1848 - Liczba stron: 628
...death or victory. That quality will tio any thing that can be done in this world ; and no talenti. no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it."— (Eilract of a Letter from Sir T. Powell Button.) LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1848. • PREFACE.... | |
 | Success - 1851 - Liczba stron: 362
...feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy—invincible determination—a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That...will make a two-legged creature a man without it." This is worthy to be the motto of every man, in every calling or sphere of life. With it he may do... | |
 | Thomas Binney - 1851 - Liczba stron: 166
...and then DEATH or VICTORY. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world ; — and Nd TALENTS, NO CIRCUMSTANCES, NO OPPORTUNITIES, WILL MAKE A TWO-LEGGED CREATURE A MAN WITHOUT IT." There; write that upon your souls, young men ! Let it be a text on which you may preach to• yourselves;... | |
 | 1853 - Liczba stron: 394
...Th' other when starry "Night returns. ENERGY AND VICTOBY ! The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men,— between...will make a two-legged creature a man without it. — SIR T. FOWKLL 350 351 THE VOICE OF NATTTBE. BY ELIZA COOK. GOD hath a voice that ever is heard... | |
 | W. H. R. - 1852 - Liczba stron: 424
...diligence, as Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton often said of those virtues which inevitably lead to it, — that " no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it." But when a man has within him the spirit of industry, no matter how small his natural talent may be,... | |
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The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality... 
