| Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 Seiten
...of years. Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. Think naught a trifle, though it small appear : Small...mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life. Be wise to-day ! 'tis madness to defer ; Next day, the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom... | |
| Frederick Wells Williams - 1888 - 516 Seiten
...the average deduced to obtain his character at home and in school. On all sides nature teaches us to Think naught a trifle, though it small appear ; Small...mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life, — and the love or hate of life enters into them, smoothing or roughening the path, developing the... | |
| Richard John Lloyd Price - 1888 - 296 Seiten
...supplied with plenty of " grit " instead. CHAPTER III. THE EGGS AND HATCHING APPLIANCES. Think nought a trifle, though it small appear, Small sands the mountain, moments make the year. Dr. YOUNG (Satire VI., line 305). HATCHING BOXES. HE boxes for sitting the hens upon pheasants' eggs... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 480 Seiten
...Brunetta's wise in actions great and rare — But scorns on trifles to bestow her care : Think nought a trifle, though it small appear : Small sands the...mountain, moments make the year. And trifles, life." " See Stella ; her eyes shine as bright people. Whether those nine tenths were right or wrong, it is... | |
| 1889 - 864 Seiten
...one can foretell what the, work of one man may accomplish. It may be trifling, but — Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles Life. Each one may bring an offering, however small, to the altar of one of the temples of JEsculapius —... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 558 Seiten
...Brunetta's wise in actions great and rare — But scorns on trifles to bestow her cnre : Think nought a trifle, though it small appear: Small sands the...mountain, moments make the year. And trifles, life." " See Stella ; her eyes shine as bright As if her tongue was never in the right ; And yet what real... | |
| 1889 - 1012 Seiten
...one can foretell what the work of one man may accomplish. It may be trifling, but — Think nought a trifle, though it small appear ; Small sands the...mountain, moments make the year, And trifles Life. Each one may bring an offering, however small, to the altar of one of the temples of jEsculapius —... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 494 Seiten
...Bruuetta's wise in actions great and rare — But scorns on trifles to bestow her care : Think nought a trifle, though it small appear ; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year." u See Stella ; her eyes shine as bright As if her tongue was never in the right ; And yet what real... | |
| John Heyl Vincent, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, John Thomas McFarland - 1890 - 444 Seiten
...wind determines the destination of these rain-drops for three thousand miles. Think naught a trine, though It small appear, Small sands the mountain, moments make the year. And trifles life.— I'oung. Thus In the pettiness of life Note thou seeds of grandeur, and watch the hour-glass Of time... | |
| 1891 - 556 Seiten
...life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity ! Robert Montgomery MOMENTS. IMPÓRTANOS OF. Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life. Young. MONASTERIES. REASONS FOR ADOPTING. There nre some solitary creatures who seem to have left the... | |
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