 | 318 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 had arrayed themselves : competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew uo motive but interest — he acknowledged... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 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.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 350 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. 2 He knew no motive' but interest'; acknowledged no criterion but success'; he worshiped no God but... | |
 | 1855 - 570 pages
...With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves, and competition...he worshipped no god but ambition -, and, with an eastetn derution. he knelt -at the shrinc of his idolatry. Snhsidiary to this, there was no ereed that... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1855 - 520 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.... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 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,...interest — he acknowledged no criterion but success — ke worshipped no god but ambition, and with an eastern devotion he knelt at the shrine of his idolatry.... | |
 | 1855 - 570 pages
...With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves, and competition...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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...charity. With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank and genius had arrayed themselves; and competition...— he acknowledged no criterion but success — he worshiped 110 God but ambition ; and with an Eastern devotion, he knelt at the altar of his idolatry.... | |
 | A member of the bar - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1857 - 562 pages
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity I 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.... | |
 | Irish orations (English) - 1857 - 564 pages
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity 1 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... | |
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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... 
