 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1803 - 228 pages
...of what little minds call poverty and distress. The evening's walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight, than the march of a general, at the head of a hundred thousand men. A contemplation of Cod's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and unfeigned... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1810 - 234 pages
...of what little minds call poverty and distress. The evening's walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight, than the march of a general, at the head of a hundred thousand men. A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and unfeigned... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 304 pages
...solitudes, in the private walks and by-paths of life. The evening's walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight than the march of a general at the head of a hundred thousand men. A contemplation on God's works ; a voluntary act of justice to our own detriment ; a... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 310 pages
...the private walks and by-paths of life. The evening's walk of a wise man is more illustrious in then* sight than the march of a general at the head of a hundred thousand men. A contemplation on God's works; a voluntary act of justice to our own detriment ; a generous... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 286 pages
...solitudes, in the private walks and by-paths of life. The evening's walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight than the march of a general at the head of a hundred thousand men. A contemplation on God's works; a voluntary act of justice to our own detriment ; a generous... | |
 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 pages
...solitudes, in the private walks and by-paths of lif«. The evening's walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight than the march of a general at the head of a hundred thousand men. A contemplation on God's works ; a voluntary act of justice to our own detriment ; a... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1827 - 604 pages
...melodious sounds in ' the noise of victories.' Hence ' the evening walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight than the march of a general, at the head of a hundred thousand men ;' for ' they do not look for great men at the head of armies, or among the pomps of a... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...of what little minds call poverty and distress. The evening's walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight, than the march of a general at the head of a hundred thousand men. A contemplation of God** works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and unfeigned... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...solitudes, in the private walks and bye-paths of life. The evening walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight than the march of a general at the head of a victorious army. A contemplation of God's works ; a voluntary act of justice to our own detriment ;... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 pages
...what little minds call poverty and distress. The evening's walk of a wise man is more illustrious, in their sight, than the march of a general at the head of a hundred thousand men. A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and unfeigned... | |
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They do not look for great men at the head of armies, or among the pomps of a court, but often find them out in shades and solitudes, in the private walks and by-paths of life. 
