 This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.  The Monitor - Página 711823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1857 - 432 páginas
...understand him until I felt my head hit against the beam. lie was a man that never missed an occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, 'You are young, and have tho world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will escape many hard thumps.1 Tins advice,... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 páginas
...could obey the warning, his head struck sharply against the beam. " You are young," said his friend, " and have the world before you ; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps." Franklin recollected the caution, especially when he saw people mortified by carrying their heads too... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1859 - 274 páginas
...understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man who never missed any occasion of giving instruction ; and upon this he said to me...This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me ; and I often think of it when 1 see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1859 - 674 páginas
...understand until I felt my head hit 'against the beam. He was a man that never missed an occasion^ of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me,...have the world before you ; stoop as you go through, and you will escape many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 668 páginas
...not understand until I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man that never missed an occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, ' You are young, aud have the world before you ; stoop as you go through, and you will escape many hard thumps.' This... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 páginas
...his head struck against the beam with considerable force. " There/' said the Doctor, laughing, ' ' you are young, and have the world before you ; stoop as you go through it, and you may miss many hard thumps." Anecdote of Dr. Mather an,l Franklin— Humility " beaten in!" See pai|e... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1861 - 304 páginas
...until his head struck against the beam with considerable force. " There," said the Doctor, laughing, " you are young, and have the world before you ; stoop as you go through it, and you may miss many hard thumps." Nearly seventy years after, the recipient of this counsel wrote : — "... | |
 | John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 294 páginas
...understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man that never missed any occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, "You are young, and have (he world before you ; STOOP as you go through it, and you, will mis» many hard thumps." This advice,... | |
 | 1862 - 582 páginas
...understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man who never missed an opportunity of giving instruction ; and upon this he said to me : ' You are young, and have the world before you : learn to stoop as you go through it, and you will avoid many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat... | |
 | 1863 - 858 páginas
...against the beam. He was a man who never missed an occasion of giving instruction; and upon this he eaid to me — You are young, and have the world before...This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it when I see pride mortified, and misfortune brought upon... | |
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