 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...confirmed his destiny — ruin itself only elevated him to empire. But if his fortune was great, his genins was transcendent; decision flashed upon his councils;...To inferior intellects^ his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny — ruin itself only elevated him to empire. But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent ; decision...To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable ; but in his hands, simplicity marked their... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...victory— his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny—ruin itself only elevated him to empire. But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent; decision...To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable; but in his hands, simplicity marked their... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectlyimpracticable; but in his hands, simplicity marked their developement,...success vindicated their adoption. / His person partook the character of his mind; — if the one never yielded in the cabinet, the other never bent in the... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny ; ruin itself only elevated him to empire. 7. But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent ; decision...councils; and it was the same to decide and to perform. To inferiour intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny — ruin itself only elevated him to empire. But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent ; decision...perform. To inferior intellects his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable, ; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny— ruin itself only elevated him to empire. But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent ; decision...perform. To Inferior intellects his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable ; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their... | |
 | Member of the bar - English orations - 1836 - 560 pages
...was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their developcment, and success vindicated their adoption. His person partook the character of his mind —... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...victory— his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny—ruin itself only elevated him to empire. But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent; de-cision...To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared per-fectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable; but, in his hand, simplicity marked their... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny — ruin itself only elevated him to empire. But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent; decision...To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable; but, in his hand, simplicity marked their... | |
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Even apparent defeat assumed the appearance of victory — his flight from Egypt confirmed his destiny — ruin itself only elevated him to empire. But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent ; decision flashed upon his councils ; and it... 
