 | 1918 - 546 страница
...argument was expressed in an opinion prepared for the conference by President Wilson, which read : - We should have scant capital to trade on were we to throw away tlie wisdom we have inherited and seek our fortunes with the slender stock we ourselves have accumulated.... | |
 | 1920 - 370 страница
...the dependence of the present upon the past. Humanity to-day must realize with President Wilson that "we should have scant capital to trade on were we...the slender stock we ourselves have accumulated"; it must grasp the wisdom of the poet of Nashapur in the quatrain of Fitzgerald: With Earth's first... | |
 | Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge - 1921 - 470 страница
...oras pulchras et Insulas eius et muros altos Romae videbitis. i. Teacher and Pupils. 2. See page 86. WE SHOULD HAVE SCANT CAPITAL TO TRADE ON WERE WE TO...THROW AWAY THE WISDOM WE HAVE INHERITED AND SEEK OUR FORTUNE WITH THE SLENDER STOCK WE OURSELVES HAVE ACCUMULATED. THIS, IT SEEMS TO ME, IS THE REAL, THE... | |
 | Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge - 1921 - 472 страница
...HAVE SCANT CAPITAL TO TRADE ON WERE WE TO THROW AWAY THE WISDOM WE HAVE INHERITED AND SEEK OUR FORTUNE WITH THE SLENDER STOCK WE OURSELVES HAVE ACCUMULATED....SEEMS TO ME, IS THE REAL, THE PREVALENT ARGUMENT FOR HO10ING EVERY MAN WE CAN TO THE INTIMATE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT CLASSICS. — WOODROW WILSON ITALIA •*... | |
 | Larue Van Hook - 1923 - 388 страница
...Education is to infect the average man with the spirit of the Humanities." — SIR WILLIAM OSLER. " We should have scant capital to trade on were we to...the slender stock we ourselves have accumulated." — WOODROW WILSON. "Nothing makes a man more interesting to himself or to others than that wide knowledge... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1925 - 558 страница
...we forget the old processes or lose our mastery over them. We should have scant capital to trade pn were we to throw away the wisdom we have inherited and seek our fortunes with the slender stock we have ourselves accumulated. This, it seems to me, is the real, the prevalent argument for holding every... | |
 | 1902 - 846 страница
...his reason for harking back to the past, though a modern man. See how practically he regards it: " We should have scant capital to trade on were we to...throw away the wisdom we have inherited and seek our fortune with the slender stuff we have ourselves accumulated." Here, then, is his confession of faith:... | |
 | 1902 - 624 страница
...his reason for harking back to the past, though a modern man. See how practically he regards it: " We should have scant capital to trade on were we to...throw away the wisdom we have inherited and seek our fortune with the slender stuff we have ourselves accumulated." Here, then, is his confession of faith... | |
 | Eugene Stock McCartney - 1923 - 250 страница
...disposed to resist and requite." " We should have scant capital to trade on," says ex-President Wilson, " were we to throw away the wisdom we have inherited...the slender stock we ourselves have accumulated." In this connection I cannot forbear quoting Gilbert271 once more: "With perhaps the sole exception... | |
 | 1918 - 522 страница
...a large style of phrasing which it needs a liberal education to realize fully: We should have want capital to trade on were we to throw away the wisdom...slender stock we ourselves have accumulated. This, it §eem» to mer is the real, the prevalent argument, for holding every man we can to the intimate study... | |
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We should have scant capital to trade on were we to throw away the wisdom we have inherited and seek our fortunes with the slender stock we have ourselves accumulated. 