| Charles Frederick Briggs - 1843 - 394 σελίδες
...the matter dear ?" People should be very cautious how they work themselves up into a high passion, as it is one of the most difficult things in the world to descend again to an ordinary level with ease and credit to themselves. Mrs. Bates felt the full force... | |
| William Andrus Alcott - 1845 - 330 σελίδες
...generation. There is little probability that the first pair, or their children, suffered in this way. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to make people see the connection of causes and effects, unless the causes are merely at arm's length... | |
| William Andrus Alcott - 1847 - 510 σελίδες
...YOUNG WOMAN S GUIDE. to a vulgar maxim, " stays long in the flesh." As is the child, so is the adult. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to make a person conscientious in all things, who has not been trained to be so. Hence the great difficulty... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1866 - 588 σελίδες
...possibility with a prospect of decision," while the optative implies possibility without any such prospect. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to state in words the difference which every one feels between if he shall go and if he should go ; and... | |
| William Leete Stone - 1851 - 546 σελίδες
...was long a missionary among them at Stockbridge. Heckewelder says their proper name was Mahicanni. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to arrive at any thing like system or certainty in regard to Indian names of persons, places, or things.... | |
| Robert Baird - 1851 - 84 σελίδες
...influence of their united wisdom and charity, gradually give way until they are altogether removed. t It is one of the most difficult things in the world to make foreigners understand fully the state of things in America, in regard to the subject of Slavery.... | |
| Frederick William Shelton - 1852 - 274 σελίδες
...narrative. The incidents are exciting, and the style unusually simple and beautiful. From the New-York Star. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to produce a moral or religious allegory, at once interesting as a story, and true and forcible in its... | |
| Timothy Shay Arthur - 1852 - 228 σελίδες
...from all I had seen, I was very well satisfied of its truth. " I have no doubt," I made answer, " that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to understand the dispositions and feelings of children, and so to act as not to do violence to what is... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 582 σελίδες
...technical knowledge of architecture. Every sensible and careful student of history must have felt that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to arrive at a sound comprehension and feeling of the peculiar characteristics of a past age. There is... | |
| mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1854 - 342 σελίδες
...company, her peculiarly isolated position making her appearance in public particularly irksome to her. But it is one of the most difficult things in the world to persuade a lady of fashion and high society, used to the brilliancy of London, and the cxclusiveness... | |
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