 | 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... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1851 - 546 pages
...was long a missionary among them at Stockbridge. Heckewelder says their proper name was Mahicanni. 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.... | |
 | Robert Baird - Christianity - 1851 - 84 pages
...influence of their united wisdom and charity, gradually give way until they are altogether removed. t It is one of the most difficult things in the world to make foreigners understand fully the state of things in America, in regard to the subject of Slavery.... | |
 | Frederick William Shelton - Sunday school literature - 1852 - 274 pages
...narrative. The incidents are exciting, and the style unusually simple and beautiful. From the New-York Star. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to produce a moral or religious allegory, at once interesting as a story, and true and forcible in its... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1852 - 228 pages
...from all I had seen, I was very well satisfied of its truth. " I have no doubt," I made answer, " that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to understand the dispositions and feelings of children, and so to act as not to do violence to what is... | |
 | mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854 - 342 pages
...company, her peculiarly isolated position making her appearance in public particularly irksome to her. But it is one of the most difficult things in the world to persuade a lady of fashion and high society, used to the brilliancy of London, and the cxclusiveness... | |
 | 1854 - 524 pages
...or " scultore" on some of the doors ; but unless you are well up in the topography, or have a guide, it is one of the most difficult things in the world to find out exactly where the particular Studio is situated that you may wish to visit. First of all,... | |
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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. 
