 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...Canaletto any more. — MP i. Pt. ii. sec. 5, ch. i. §19. WATER AS PAINTED BY THE OLD MASTERS. — 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... | |
 | General Association of Connecticut - 1870 - 702 pages
...case of reformation which seems to be radical and permanent ; but it is allowed on all hands, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to reform a drunkard. At one of the meetings of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums for the... | |
 | Literature - 1927 - 976 pages
...But again, just what constitutes understatement or overstatement is a matter of judgment and opinion. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to determine. The greater the experience of a certified accountant, the more loath he becomes to express... | |
 | George D Watt - 1871 - 392 pages
...success, must be reduced to a science. It is the same with religion ; but our traditions are such that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to make men believe that the revealed religion of heaven is a pure science, and all trae science in the... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1871 - 358 pages
...Lord hath need. There is but one Lord. That appears to be a very simple statement, easy of credence. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to believe that in the heart. Let a man have a conviction, intelligent, profound, unchangeable, that there... | |
 | 1871 - 586 pages
...by competent persons, that the translation of the Prayer Bo ik into French is an able translation ! It is one of the most difficult things In the world to effect a translation Ui¿» a foreign language, and I would ask if we have certain and undoubted proof... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1871 - 358 pages
...Lord hath need. There is but one Lord. That appears to be a very simple statement, easy of credence. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to believe that in the heart. Let a man have a conviction, intelligent, profound, unchangeable, that there... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1872 - 1122 pages
...proper appointment, it should only be mentally resolved at the time when the Law Officer became a Judge. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to tell — a man hardly knows himself — when the first mental operation occurs ; and yet the noble... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1872 - 642 pages
...exhortation, "dare to be true;" we may paint the meanness of deception as we will ; but, after all, it is one of the most difficult things in the world to be uniformly, consistently, thoroughly sincere. "Speak the truth at all times," — how plain that... | |
 | George Miller Beard - Hygiene - 1875 - 1090 pages
...this peculiarity to a far greater degree. I pronounce this opinion with caution, for I am aware that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to arrive at absolute truth in all matters of this nature. Our life is so complex, so many and diverse... | |
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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. 
