 | 1814 - 550 pages
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity ! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank,...themselves, and competition fled from him as from the chance of destiny; - He knew no motive but interest ; he acknowledged no criterion but success ; he... | |
 | 1814 - 590 pages
...scholar by charity ! With no friend but- his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed intpthe lists where rank, and wealth, and genius, had arrayed...themselves, and competition fled from him as from the chance of desliny. He knew no motive but interest'; • he acknowledged no criterion but success ;... | |
 | John Hampdon - 1815
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity ! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank,...themselves, and competition fled from him as from the chance of destiny. He knew no motive but interest — he acknowledged no criterion but success —... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1817
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity ; — with no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves; competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive but interest; — he acknowledged... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity ! " With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and genius bad arrayed themselves, and competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank,...from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive but interest—he acknowledged no criterion but success —he worshipped no God but ambition, and with... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 153 pages
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity ! — With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank and wealth, and genius, hud arrayed. • themselves, and cortipetition fled from him as from the chance of destiny. He knew... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830
...his talents, he rushed into tlie lists where rank, and wealth, aud genius, had arrayed themselves; competition fled from' him, as from the glance of...but interest — he acknowledged no criterion but successbe worshipped no God but ambition, and with an Eastern devotion, he knelt at the shrine of his... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 482 pages
...but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and genius, had arrayed themselves; competition fled from, him, as from the glance of...success— he worshipped no God but ambition, and with an Kastern, devotion, he knelt at the shrine of his idolatry. Sub>idiary to this, there was no creed that... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 338 pages
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and fenius had arrayed themselves, and competition fled from im as from the glance of destiny. He knew... | |
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Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, he commenced his course a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he... 
