 | Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1913 - 408 Seiten
...Marquette and La Salle explored the Mississippi Eiver. 5. The airs and streams renew their joyous tone. 6. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. 7. Good company, lively conversations, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.... | |
 | Mary Augusta Laselle, Katherine Ellis Wiley - 1913 - 160 Seiten
...faculties will be strong which are used. — EMERSON. One to-day is worth two to-morrows. — Anon. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator. — GIBBON. Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.... | |
 | Gustav Pollak - 1915 - 484 Seiten
...of the big battalions"; and finally reproduces from Gibson the interesting parallel, in 1776, that "winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." Benham's dictionary of quotations adds the considerably older parallelism of the remark of the Comte... | |
 | Gustav Pollak - 1915 - 494 Seiten
...of the big battalions "; and finally reproduces from Gibson the interesting parallel, in 1776, that "winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." Benham's dictionary of quotations adds the considerably older parallelism of the remark of the Comte... | |
 | 1918 - 622 Seiten
...in America was made from amyl alcohol and acetic acid. A review of the patent literature discloses The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Gibbon. that there were numerous German patents by means of which this product could be prepared from... | |
 | Mary Augusta Laselle - 1918 - 366 Seiten
...world means something to the capable. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven. — Carlyle. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Gibbon. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...stands, And, with his compass, measures seas and lands. DRYDEN — Sixth Satire of Juvenal. L. 760. 23 That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent GIBBON — Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. LXVIII. 24 Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold... | |
 | James S. Hewett - 1988 - 516 Seiten
...may come nearer to your opinion of them. OSCAR WILDE FIFTY-FIVE Flexibility 1. GOING WITH THE FLOW The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. EDWARD GIBBON 2. BOOKER T.'S FLEXIBILITY Booker T. Washington arrived in a city to make a speech. His... | |
 | Loch K. Johnson - 1991 - 369 Seiten
...best of their ability data on the capabilities and intentions of present or potential adversaries. "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators," wrote Gibbon.22 Skillful navigation is dependent upon the gathering of precise information. Without... | |
 | Francis Jennings - 1990 - 552 Seiten
...strategy by which they could have better served their own interest. Edward Gibbon has observed that "the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."49 The British generals compounded their difficulties with nature by decisions fundamental... | |
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... adversaries, who, with the design of boarding, presumed to approach them; and the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. 
