 | Franz Ahn - 1876 - 194 pages
...sun does not shine for a few trees, but for the wide world's joy. This book is not mine, but yours. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. There was once a very little boy, and his name was George; but he thought himself ten times bigger... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 662 pages
...destitute of cannon ; and since courage irisea in a great measure from the consciousness of strength thfc bravest of the Janizaries might tremble on a new element....rescued by the Genoese ; but the Turks, in a distant and a closer attack, were twice repulsed with considerable loss. Mahomet himself sat on horseback on the... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...their passage; their artillery swept the waters; their liquid fire was poured on the heads of their adversaries, who, with the design of boarding, presumed...waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. r. In this conflict, the Imperial vessel, which had been almost overpowered, was rescued by the Genoese;... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pages
...Don't be too sure," he replied, ufai loujours vu Dieu du cote des gros bataillons." Gibbon says, " The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." — Decline and Fall, chap. Ixviii. When some one wrote in a German album, during the Seven Years'... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pages
...One of England's most illustrious historical writers. Author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. All that is human must retrograde if it do not advauce. JOedine... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...a hand to execute.3 Cli. xlviii. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Ch. xlix. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Ch. Ixviii. Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1887 - 330 pages
...REVIEW. ANALYSIS. 1. By the streets of By-and-by, one arrives at the house of Never.— Span. Prov. 2. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.—Gibbon. 3. The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - 1884 - 670 pages
...recollections. 140. How wonderful a being is man, when viewed in the light of his achievements ! 141. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. 142. England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes. as to fetter the step of Freedom,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show. 3 Garfield : Oration on Miss Booth. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. 4 Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. 68. There is great ability in knowing how to conceal... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1889 - 356 pages
...REVIEW. ANALYSIS. 1. By the streets of By-and-by, one arrives at the house of Never. — Span. Prov. 2. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Gibbon. 3. The axis of the earth sticks out visibly throngh the center of each and every town or... | |
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... adversaries, who, with the design of boarding, presumed to approach them; and the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. 
