 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess ? I pity you. I thought you cleverer ; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck....that I am so entirely without any claim to it. You hare drawn two pretty pictures ; but I think there may he a third, — a something between the do-nothing... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1841 - 452 pages
...you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess ? I pity you. I thought you cleverer ; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck....without any claim to it. You have drawn two pretty pictures ; but I think there may be a third, — a something between the do-nothing and the doall.... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 470 pages
...that excellent thinker, as well as best of all story-tellers, Miss Austen, when she says in Emma, " Depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck, there is always some talent in it." Talent here denoting intelligence and will in action. In all sciences except those called exact, this... | |
 | John Brown - English literature - 1861 - 516 pages
...Mary's strains. "AH" 'AFXINOIA— NEARNESS OF THE NowPRESENCE OF MIND. 'ETZTOXIA: HAPPY GUESSING. " Depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck — there is always some Talent in it." — M1ss AUSTEN, in " Emma." VOL. n. M "AFXINOIA. NEARNESS OF THE |R. CHALMERS used to say that in... | |
 | John Brown - Dogs - 1862 - 360 pages
...of that excellent thinker, as well as best of all storytellers, Miss Austen, when she says in Emma, "Depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck, there is always some talent in it," — talent here denoting intelligence and will in action. In all sciences except those called exact,... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 506 pages
...several ways. 'AFXINOIA— NEARNESS OF THE PRESENCE OF MIND. 'ETSTOXIA: HAPPY GUESSING. upon #, a lueky guess is never merely luck — there is always some Talent in it? — Miss AUSTEN, in 'Emma." -. 'AFXINOIA: NEARNESS OF THE Nav<s. "P\R. CHALMERS used to say that in... | |
 | John Brown - 1862 - 488 pages
...trees the tale disclose They learnt from Mary's strains. "AH" 8 PRESENCE OF MIND, AND HAPPY GUESSING. " Depend upon It a lucky guess is never merely luck — there is alwayi some talent in it." — Miss AUSTBN, in Emma. PRESENCE OF MIND, AND HAPPY GUESSING. R. CHALMERS... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...P's, we hereby recommend to the assiduous attention of our readers. CHAPTER V. SUSfN£SS HABITS. " Depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck ; there is always some talent in it." — Miss Austen, in "£m»ia." " There is nothing more desirable than good sense and justness of mind... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1881 - 448 pages
...you never known the pleasure and triumph of a iucky guess ? I pity you. I thought you cleverer ; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck....' success,' which you quarrel with, I do not know •hat I am so entirely without anv claim to it. You have drawn two pretty pictures ; but I think there... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 474 pages
...that excellent thinker, as well as best of all story-tellers, Miss Austen, when she says in Emma, " Depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck, there is always some talent in it." Talent here denoting intelligence and will in action. In all sciences except those called exact, this... | |
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... talk of success? where is your merit? What are you proud of? You made a lucky guess; and that is all that can be said. 
