| James Morison - Bible - 1902 - 708 pages
...was unknown to the Platonics. It was unknown to the Peripatetics." It is true theology, nevertheless. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to deal conscientiously with riches, that is, to keep a itci'd conscience and be rich. It u easy to be... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 338 pages
...girls? 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. If it be generally so with us, I am sure we ought to be... | |
| Charles Gide - Economics - 1903 - 732 pages
...heavy money), but it remains most persistently ; and, as we shall see when we take up Greshan1's law, it is one of the most difficult things in the world to drive light money out of circulation. To maintain the identity of metallic value and legal value, it... | |
| Joseph Hodges Choate - 1903 - 144 pages
...a time can occupy either position. Then there is a further point of resemblance — that, although it is one of the most difficult things in the world to get a man into the position, it is, as you have found in the case of the present incumbent, almost... | |
| John Ruskin - 1903 - 824 pages
...violation of truth, of which the reason, as in the last case, is the painter's consciousness of weakness. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to express the light reflection of the blue sky on a distant ripple, and to make the eye understand the... | |
| Honoré de Balzac - Marriage - 1904 - 382 pages
...seemingly natural causes requires genius — and no man can be taught genius — and, further, since it is one of the most difficult things in the world to bring a woman back to virtue when once she has wandered no matter how small a distance along the gilded... | |
| 1905 - 1002 pages
...creepers. т. к. c. Photograph by Town and Country A. Wallace, Sidmoulh The Child Prisoners of Paris IT is one of the most difficult things in the world to move any of the springs of French bureaucracy. Everything is " red tape " in that Land of Liberty,... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1891 - 284 pages
...work wi'l be a genuine boon. It is the easiest matter in the world to kill a specimen for stuffing — it is one of the most difficult things in the world to stuff one where absolute knowledge is lacking. This knowledge, to the minutest details, the author,... | |
| 1906 - 282 pages
...cases out of ten find out their mistake when they put their theories into practice. One reason is that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to get reliable data as to whether a particular place is, or is not, a suitable field for squatting. The... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1884 - 892 pages
...is very strong reason fur suspecting the evidence before us. We must note, in the first place, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to free results from " selection" in some form or other. Take the simple instance of tossing up a halfpenny;... | |
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