 | Religion - 1836 - 732 pages
...know it. A repetition of the same thoughts and actions is so apt to ensure their continuance, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to check this habitual operation of the mind, and give it a different direction from that in which it... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 404 pages
...know it. A repetition of the same thoughts and actions is so apt to ensure their continuance, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to check this habitual operation of the mind, and give it a different direction from that in which it... | |
 | Joseph Comstock - America - 1838 - 506 pages
...prevent the fa]], the disobedience, and the misery of man. And this we do certainly know to be the fact. It is one of the most difficult things in the world, to conceive of any being, who has the complete and entire power of having every thing precisely as he... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1838 - 568 pages
...was long a missionary among them at Stockbridge. Heckewelder says their proper name was Mahteanni. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to arrive at any thing like system or certainty in regard to Indian names of persons, places, or things.... | |
 | Charles Frederick Briggs - American fiction - 1843 - 394 pages
...the matter dear ?" People should be very cautious how they work themselves up into a high passion, as it is one of the most difficult things in the world to descend again to an ordinary level with ease and credit to themselves. Mrs. Bates felt the full force... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - Child Care - 1845 - 330 pages
...generation. There is little probability that the first pair, or their children, suffered in this way. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to make people see the connection of causes and effects, unless the causes are merely at arm's length... | |
 | William Andrus Alcott - Conduct of life - 1847 - 510 pages
...YOUNG WOMAN S GUIDE. to a vulgar maxim, " stays long in the flesh." As is the child, so is the adult. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to make a person conscientious in all things, who has not been trained to be so. Hence the great difficulty... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1866 - 618 pages
...definitions quoted above. Perhaps the most familiar distinction is that given by Buttmann, that idv with the subjunctive implies " possibility with a...any such prospect. It is one of the most difficult tllings in the world to state in words the difference which every one feels between if he shall go... | |
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I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong. 
