 | Andrew Halliday - 1866 - 344 páginas
...makes trees grow out of the arid sand, and turns mud and rubbish into gold. In many cases, no doubt, the success of the one and the failure of the other are easily to be accounted for. Jones, though stupid, is a steadygoing plodder; Smith, though clever, has... | |
 | Andrew Halliday Duff - 1866 - 328 páginas
...makes trees grow out of the arid sand, and turns mud and rubbish into gold. In many cases, no doubt, the success of the one and the failure of the other are easily to be accounted for. Jones, though stupid, is a steadygoing plodder; Smith, though clever, has... | |
 | 1892 - 1058 páginas
...as suits his fancy ; but there is a difference between the two poems, and that difference accounts for the success of the one and the failure of the other. In Paradise Lost, \ although Satan is free to choose his means, a Tne Hastings Hihle nicthnary, vol.... | |
 | Sir John William Fortescue - 1911 - 308 páginas
...failed and the other succeeded. I wish to say nothing discourteous ; but it is sheer absurdity. The true reasons for the success of the one and the failure of the other were, as we shall see, very different. Let us now turn to the weapons of the enemy. The French Navy... | |
 | Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns - 1919 - 498 páginas
...of reforms in religion and both went through the experience of a foreign invasion — suggests that the reasons for the success of the one and the failure of the other lay in the difference between (a) their outward circumstances ; and (£>) their inward character. (a)... | |
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In many cases, no doubt, the success of the one and the failure of the other are easily to be accounted for. 