 | Meetings - 1869 - 186 pages
...but his talents, he rushed in the list where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed therneelves, and competition fled from him, as from the glance of destiny. " He knew no motive but interest ; acknowledged no criterion but success ; he worshipped no God but ambition, and with an eastern devotion,... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, Richard McAllister Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1879 - 584 pages
...emphasized words, and mark above, the following inflection as required. " He knew no motive but interest acknowledged no criterion but success he worshipped no god but ambition and with devotion he knelt at the shrine of idolatry subsidiary to this there was no creed he did not profess... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 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,...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... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1875 - 584 pages
...by charity ! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the list where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves,...and competition fled from him as from the glance of destinv. He knew no motive but interest, — he acknowledged no criterion but success, — he worshipped... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 622 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.... | |
 | Recitations - 1876 - 734 pages
...birth, and a scholar by charity ! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, ho rushed into the lists where rank and wealth and genius...competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. LTo knew no motive but interest — he acknowledged no criterion but success — he worshipped no God... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...course, a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity ! \Vith no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank and wealth and genins had arrayed themselves, and competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. Ho knew... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1878 - 312 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,...motive but interest— he acknowledged no criterion hut success — he worshipped no God but ambition, and, with an eastern devotion, he knelt at the shrine... | |
 | Oliver Ernesto Branch - Readers - 1878 - 278 pages
...commenced his course, a stranger by birth and a scholar by charity. With no friend but his sword ho rushed into the lists where rank and wealth and genius...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.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
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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... 
