 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...scholar by charity ! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed in the list where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves,...— he acknowledged no criterion but success — he worshiped no God but ambition, and with an eastern devotion he knelt at the shrine of his idolatry.... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity. Wit] rushed With no friend but his sword, no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank,...competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He kiiew no motive but iuterest—he acknowledged no criterion but success—he worshipped no God but... | |
 | John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1840 - 562 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 worshiped no God but ambition, and with an... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...birth, and a scholar by charity ! With no friend but his sword, no fortune but his talents, he rnshed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and genius...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 an... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...scholar by charity ! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed in the list where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves,...competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. — lie knew no motive but interest — he acknowledged no criterion but success — he worshiped no... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 558 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,...— he acknowledged no criterion but success — he worshiped no God but ambition, and with an eastern devotion he knelt at the shrine of his idolatry.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...charity ! With no friend, but tie sworci. and no fortune, but his talents, he rushed in ihe list— where rank, and wealth, and genius— had arrayed...interest— he acknowledged no criterion, but success — he wor•hiped no God, but ambition, and, with an eastern devoiion, he knelt— at the shrine of his idolatry.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...in the list— where rank, and wealth, and genius— had arrayed themselves, and competition—fled from him, as from the glance of destiny. He knew no...interest— he acknowledged no criterion, but success— he worshiped no God, but ambition, and, with an eastern devotion, he knelt— at the shrine of his idolatry.... | |
 | Thomas Morris - Great Britain - 1845 - 330 pages
...career, 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 flew from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive but interest—he acknowledged... | |
 | Thomas Morris - Great Britain - 1845 - 336 pages
...career, 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 flew from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive but interest — he acknowledged... | |
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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... 
