| Plutarch - Ethics - 1870 - 560 pages
...human and of small value, such as will hardly recompense the industry required to the getting of them. It is, indeed, a desirable thing to be well descended ; but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Riches are valuable ; but they are the goods of Fortune, who frequently takes them from those that... | |
| Plutarchus - 1874 - 558 pages
...human and of small value, such as will hardly recompense the industry required to the getting of them. It is. indeed, a desirable thing to be well descended ; but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Riches are valuable ; but they are the goods of Fortune, who frequently takes them from those that... | |
| Plutarch - 1889 - 562 pages
...human and of small value, such as will hardly recompense the industry required to the getting of them. It is, indeed, a desirable thing to be well descended ; but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Riches are valuable ; but they are the goods of Fortune, who frequently takes them from those that... | |
| Francis Higginson Atkins - 1891 - 240 pages
..."unostentatiously." " "viseed." JOSEPH ATKINS THE. STORY OF A FAMILY -BYFRANCIS HIGGINSON ATKINS. "It Is indeed ;i desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors." DUDLEY ATKINS, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER. 1891. HARVARD COLLEftE LiBRARY GIFT OF MRS. THOMAS WEfiTWORTH... | |
| Old Saybrook (Conn.) - 1896 - 160 pages
...; but it is none the less embarrassing -83since I remember the shrewd apothegm of Plutarch, " That it is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors." Yet it is a very grateful task withal, and since my time is of the briefest, I will essay it without... | |
| Paul Monroe - Education - 1901 - 540 pages
...human and of small value, such as will hardly recompense the industy required to the getting of them. It is, indeed, a desirable thing to be well descended; but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Riches are valuable; but they are the goods of Fortune, who frequently takes them from those that have... | |
| Charles Spooner Forbes, Charles R. Cummings - Vermont - 1901 - 462 pages
...be combated I will leave it to some New Englander who does not agree with the old saying : " It is a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors, "'and go right on to say that I remember the I3th of March, 1902. was the 1 271)1 anniversary of one... | |
| Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good edncation. ibid. It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ibid. According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult. ibid. To sing the same tune,... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education. nrid. It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. yjirf. According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult ibid. To sing the same tune,... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 466 pages
...human and of small value, such as will hardly recompense the industry required to the getting of them. It is, indeed, a desirable thing to be well descended ; but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Riches are valuable ; but they are the goods of Fortune, who frequently takes them from those that... | |
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