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" Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. "
Life of Robert Burns - Page 78
by James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 231 pages
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Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...Heroworship under strange conditions. The notablest phasis of Burng's history his visit to Edinburgh. For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Literary Lionism. (176.) LECTURE VI. THE HEliO AS KINO. CKOMWELL, NAPOLEON : MODERN BEVOLUTIOOTSJI....
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures

Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...handing down jewelled Duchesses to dinner; the cynosure of all eyes! Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there...nor affectation: he feels that he there is the man Robert Burns ; that the ' rank is but the guinea-stamp ;' that the celebrity is but the candle-light,...
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Sartor Resartus (1831): Lectures on Heroes (1840)

Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...under strange conditions. The notablest phasis of Burns's history, his visit to Edinburgh. For one-man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Literary Lionism. (328). LECTURE VI. THE HERO AS KINO. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON I MODERN REVOLUTIONISM. The...
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The Ballads and Songs of Robert Burns. With a Lecture on His Character and ...

Robert Burns - 1864 - 252 pages
...handing down jewelled Duchesses to dinner; the cynosure of all eyes! Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there...a hundred that will stand adversity. I admire much I and Genius of Burns. 1 1 the way in which Burns met all this. Perhaps no man one could point out,...
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Heroes and Hero-worship

Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1869 - 328 pages
...Hero-worship under strange conditions. The notablest phasis of Burns's history his visit to Edinburgh. For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Literary Lionism. (225.) LECTURE VI. THE HERO AS KING. CBOMWELL, NAPOLEON : MODERN REVOLUTIONISM. The...
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The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus (1831). Lectures on ...

Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1871 - 408 pages
...Hero-worship under strange conditions. The notablest phasis of Burns's history, his visit to Edinburgh. For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. literary lionism. (828). LECTURE VI. THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON : MODERN REVOLUTIONISM. The...
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The Madras University Calendar, Volume 1

University of Madras - 1876 - 580 pages
...may see how a man would fight, by the way in which he sings.'' (b) " Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity." Explain and expand the following : VIII. (a) Explain the following :— Our general Byronism of taste...
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Diamond Dust

Jennie Fowler Willing - Conduct of life - 1880 - 254 pages
...duchesses down to dinner, the cynosure of all eyes ! We admire much the way in which Burns met all this. Tranquil, unastonished, not abashed, not inflated...nor affectation, he feels that he there is the man Robert Burns ; that ' the rank is but the guinea's stamp, that the celebrity is but the candle light...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...weighty. aa. BYBON — Don Juan. Canto XII. St50. ADVERSITY AFFLICTION. Adversity is sometimes hard upon Desert. Rose of the Garden! such is woman's lot, — Worshipp'd when blooming — when she fade a. CABITLE— Heroes and Hero Worship. Lecture V. Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...weighty. aa. BYBON — Don Juan. Canto XII. St. 50. well AFFLICTION. Adversity is sometimes bard upon amn; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. а. CABLTLE — Heroes a nil Hero Worship. Lecture V. Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while...
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