 | 1832 - 548 pages
...advantages for education are nothing ; but I do MY, they are much less than is commonly supposed ; I do say, as a general rule, that the amount of useful...commonly called the great advantages of life. Wisdom tloes sometimes, but not most commonly, feed her children with a silver spoon. I believe it is perfectly... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...advantages for education, are nothing ; but I do say, they are much less, than is commonly supposed ; I do say, as a general rule, that the amount of useful...it, are, by no means, in direct proportion to the degrees to which they have enjoyed what are commonly called the great advantages of life. Wisdom does... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 708 pages
...advantages for education — are nothing ; but I do say they are much less than is commonly supposed ; I do say, as a general rule, that the amount of useful...with it, are by no means in direct proportion to the degrees to which they have enjoyed what are commonly called the great advantages of life. Wisdom does... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1870 - 496 pages
...advantages for education, are nothing : but I do say, they are much less than is commonly supposed ; I do say, as a general rule, that the amount of useful...are commonly called the great advantages of life. 4. Wisdom does sometimes, but not most commonly, feed her children with a silver spoon. I believe it... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1870 - 690 pages
...which men acquire, and the good they do with it, are by no means in direct proportion to the degrees to which they have enjoyed what are commonly called...not most commonly, feed her children with a silver spocxa, J believe it is perfectly correct to say that a small proportion only of those who have been... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers (Secondary) - 1872 - 490 pages
...advantages for education, are nothing : but I d) say, they arc much less than is commonly supposed ; I do say, as a general rule, that the amount of useful knowledge which men acquire, and tho good they do with it, are by no means in direct proportion to the degree to which they have enjoyed... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 pages
...advantages for education, are nothing : but I do say, they arc much less than is commonly supposed ; I do say, as a general rule, that the amount of useful...are commonly called the great advantages of life. 4. Wisdom does sometimes, but not most commonly, feed her children with a silver spoon. I believe it... | |
 | Readers - 1902 - 424 pages
...advantages for education, are nothing; but I do say that they are much less than is commonly supposed; I do say, as a general rule, that the amount of useful...to which they have enjoyed what are commonly called die great advantages of life. 4. Wisdom does sometimes, but not most commonly, feed her children with... | |
 | 1839 - 348 pages
...advantages for education are nothing ; but I do say, they are much less than is commonly supposed : I do say, as a general rule, that the amount of useful...to which they have enjoyed what are commonly called tke great advantages of life. Wisdom does sometimes, but not most commonly, feed her children with... | |
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It is these which make the man, which are the man. I do not say that opportunities, that wealth, leisure, and great advantages for education, are nothing : but I do say... 