| Mrs. Hoare (Louisa Gurney) - Child rearing - 1826 - 176 pages
...undertakings, answered, • My rule is deliberately to consider before I commence, whether the thing be practicable. If it ! be not practicable, I do not...stop till the thing is done. To this rule I owe all ray success.' " care ? On the other hand, it may excite surprise to observe how much good sense and... | |
| John S. Skinner - 1827 - 434 pages
...practicable, 1 do not attempt it — if it be practicable. 1 can accomplish it, if I give sufticient pains to it — and having begun, I never stop till the thing is done. To this rule 1 owe all mj success.1 " »elves, very much in proportion as we iead them to do so; we must manifest... | |
| Mrs. Hoare (Louisa) - Child rearing - 1834 - 182 pages
...commence, whether the thing bo practicable. If it be not practicable, I do not attempt it-r-rif jt be practicable, I can accomplish it, if I give sufficient...till the thing is done. To this rule I owe all my sue-. cess.1'1 other hand, it may excite surprise to observe how much good sense and self-possession... | |
| David George Goyder - Phrenologists - 1857 - 680 pages
...PHUENOLOOiCAI. SOCIETY, ETC. ETC. ' My rule is deliberately to consider, before I commence, whether the thing if practicable. If it be not practicable I do not attempt...sufficient pains to it ; and, having begun, I never Mop till the thing is done.' — DR. HUNTXR. ' As Authors are scattered through all ranks of society,... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...undertakings, he replied, " My rule is, deliberately to consider, before I commence, whether the thing be practicable. If it be not practicable, I do not attempt...If it be practicable, I can accomplish it if I give suflicient pains to it; and having begun, I never stop till the thing is done. To this rule I owe all... | |
| 1860 - 836 pages
...undertakings, he replied, " My rule is, deliberately to consider, before I commence, whether the thing be practicable. If it be not practicable, I do not attempt...thing is done. To this rule I owe all my success." And when the great Jenner came to him with his then imperfectly-developed theory of vaccination, Hunter... | |
| 1861 - 204 pages
...Beecher. A GOOD RULE. My rule is, deliberately to coneider, before I commence, whether the thinē is practicable. If it be not practicable I do not attempt...thing is done. To this rule I owe all my success. — John Hunter. TWO GOOD QUALITIES. Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it. The first... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1861 - 470 pages
...undertakings, he replied, "My rule is, deliberately to consider, before I commence, whether the thing be practicable. If it be not practicable, I do not attempt...thing is done. To this rule I owe all my success." John Hunter occupied a great deal of his time in collecting definite facts respecting matters which,... | |
| 1862 - 452 pages
...succeeded in. his undertakings, " is deliberately to consider, before I commeVce, whether the thing be practicable. If it be not practicable, I do not attempt...thing is done. To this rule I owe all my success." According to an old proverb, " punctuality is the soul of business ;" yet the want of it is probably... | |
| 1862 - 1110 pages
...Paper. A. GOOD RULE. — My rule is, deliberately to consider, before I commence, whether the thing is practicable. If it be not practicable, I do not attempt...thing is done. To this rule I owe all my success. — John Hunter. COMIC SINGERS. — A. few weeks since a popular comic singer, well known at the London... | |
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