...an average one about £15. What shall we try to make of our boys — Jockeys or Comedians P " 'Tin better to have tried and failed, Than never to have tried at all." Many a rising young Barrister who heard WOOD'S evidence on this point must have wished he had gone...

...reason for commencing it, and whether we can say in the case of classical translations, that it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. There is indeed one point of view, and that a most important one, measured from which Mr. Martin becomes...

...Praelectiones, or Muller's Dorians. Of what are called results obtained, no boast shall be made. It was at least better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. On reviewing these early attempts at the enlargement of boyish minds, it now seems that, over and above...

...Praeleetiones, or Muller's Dorians. Of what are called results obtained, no boast shall be made. It was at least better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. On reviewing thcse early attempts at the enlargement of boyish minds, it now seems that, over and above...

...hope for success, save in exceptional instances. Still, it is open to question whether it were not better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. The idea was a noble one, and though the attempt to realize was predestined to failure, the seeds of...

...considers that just as "it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," so it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all ; and who even recognizes that some of the greatest real successes in the history of the world have...

...week, and an average one about £15. What shall we try to make of our boys — Jockeys or Comedians ? " 'Tis better to have tried and failed, Than never to have tried at all." Many a rising young Barrister who heard WOOD'S evidence on this point must have wished he had gone...

...be accomplished. But if the work is ever to be done, the way must be paved by partial failure. It is better to have tried and failed, than never to have tried at all. Let us trace the development of George Eliot's art in its more outward aspects. Novel-writing did not...

...attained, in the girls' case, of musical excellence, in the boys' of the Hellenic and Latin masterpieces. " Tis better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all," while failure gives a truer sense of what perfection consists in. Such is the argument — for what...

...conviction of Sheridan. But, at any rate, in a matter which affects the very foundations of justice, it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. Here i? a man guilty of offences as fatal, not only to the administration of justice, but to all respect...