 | Young people - 1852 - 1020 lehte
...said, " I owe my success in life chiefly to one single fact, viz., that at the age of twenty-seven I commenced, and continued for years, the process...unfrequently in some distant barn, with the horse and ox for my auditors. It is to this eurly practice of the art of all arts that I am indebted for the... | |
 | 1853 - 618 lehte
...owe my success in life, I think, chiefly to one single fact, viz., that at the age of twentyseven, I commenced, and continued for years, the process...unfrequently in some distant barn, with the horse and ox for my auditors. It is to this early practice of the art of all arts, that I am indebted for the... | |
 | 1853 - 454 lehte
...my success in life," said he, " chiefly to one single fact, viz. — that at the age of twenty-seven I commenced, and continued for years, the process...unfrequently in some distant barn, with the horse and the ox for my auditors. It is to this early practice of the art of all arts that I am indebted for... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 lehte
...my success in life, I think chiefly, to one single fact ; viz., that at the age of twenty-seven, T commenced, and continued for years, the process of...contents of some historical or scientific book. These off hand efforts, were made sometimes in a corn field, at others in a forest, and not unfrequently... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 lehte
...institntion, " I owe my success in life to one single fact, namely, that at the age of twenty-seven I commenced, and continued for years, the process...unfrequently in some distant barn, with the horse and the ox for my auditors. It is to this early practice of the great art of all arts, that I am indebted... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 lehte
...owe my success in life," said he, " chiefly to one circumstance— that at the age of twenty-seven I commenced, and continued for years, the process...book. These off-hand efforts were made, sometimes in a corn field, at others in the forest, and not unfrequently in some distant barn, with the horse and... | |
 | 1859 - 708 lehte
...ELOQUENCE. — I owe my success in life to one lingle fact, viz : that at the age of twenty-seven. I commenced, and continued for years, the process...and speaking upon the contents of some historical and scientific book. These off-band efforts were made, sometimes in a cornfield, at others in the forest,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1860 - 358 lehte
...American orator, said to some young men, " I owe my success in life chiefly to one circumstance, — that I commenced and continued for years the process of...unfrequently in some distant barn, with the horse and ox for my auditors. It is to this early practice of the art of all arts that I am indebted for the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 470 lehte
...owe my success in life," said he, " chiefly to one circumstance, — that at the age of twenty-seven I commenced, and continued for years, the process...unfrequently in some distant barn, with the horse and the ox for my auditors. It is to this early practice of the art of all arts that I am indebted for... | |
 | John Jones - 1861 - 154 lehte
...remarkable from his not having commenced his studies till comparatively late in life. He then began and continued for years the process of daily reading...upon the contents of some historical or scientific books. Somewhat similar also was the early practice of Sir Samuel Romilly, as we learn from a statement... | |
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I owe my success in life to one single fact, namely, at the age of twentyseven I commenced, and continued for years, the process of daily reading and speaking upon the contents of some historical or scientific book. These off-hand efforts... 
