 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...want of which many a good natural genius is lost, or lies unfashioued, like a jewel in the mine. ' One of the strongest incitements to excel in such...the highest esteem among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory ; which, though it may be faulty in the excess of it, ought by... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 408 pages
...For want of which many a good natural genius is lost, or lies, unfashioned, like a jewel in the mine. One of the strongest incitements to excel in such...the highest esteem among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory ; which, though it may be faulty in the excess of it, ought by... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 494 pages
...want of which many a good natural genius is lost, or lies unfashioned, like a jewel in the mine. • One of the strongest incitements to excel in such...the highest esteem among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory ; which, though it may be faulty in the excess of it, ought by... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 304 pages
...lost, or lies unfashioned like a jewel in the mine. " One of the strongest incitements to excel insuch arts and accomplishments as are in the highest esteem among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory; which, though it may be faulty in the excess of it, ought by no... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 274 pages
...want of which many a good natural genius is lost, or lies unfashioned, like a jewel in the mine. ' One of the strongest incitements to excel in such...the highest esteem among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory; which, though it may be faulty in the excess of it, ought by no... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 252 pages
...want of which many a good natural genius is lost, or lies unfashioned, like a jewel in the mine. ' ' One of the strongest incitements to excel in such...the highest esteem among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory; which, though it maybe faulty in the excess of it, ought by no... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 394 pages
...want of which many a good natural genius is lost, or lies unfashioned, like a jewel in the mine. ' One of the strongest incitements to excel in such...the highest esteem among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory; which, though it may be faulty in the excess of it, ought by no... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 478 pages
...want of which many a good-natured jenius is lost, or lies unfasluoned, like a jewel in the mine. ' One of the strongest incitements to excel in such arts and accomplishments as are in 7 м. l-'* .136 [No. S5S. Ч Ï \ • v «* the highest esteem among men, is the natural passion which... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...asserted his right to the gratitude of the country he had served so truly. [St John's College, 1832.] 48. ONE of the strongest incitements to excel in such...the highest esteem among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory ; which, though it may be faulty in the excess of it, ought by... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 554 pages
...want of which, many a good natural genius is lost, or lies unfashioned like a jewel in the mine. ' One of the strongest incitements to excel in such...accomplishments as are in the highest esteem among man, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory; which, though it may be faulty in... | |
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One of the strongest incitements to excel in such arts and accomplishments as are in the highest esteem .among men, is the natural passion which the mind of man has for glory; which, though it may be faulty in the excess of it, ought by no means to be... 
