 | 596 pages
...perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances. It did all very well before the Flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication...and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterwards ; but at present 11 man waits, and doubts, a'ud hesitates, and... | |
 | Magnetic healing - 1851 - 462 pages
...perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances : it did all very well before the Flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication...and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterwards ; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and... | |
 | 1856 - 1270 pages
...very well before the flood, where a man could consult his friends upon an intended performance for an hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its...man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and consults his brother, and hia uncle, and particular friends, till one fine day he finds that he is sixty years... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances: it did all very well before the Flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication...and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterwards; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and consults... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 474 pages
...perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances : it did all very well before the Flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication...and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterwards ; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 600 pages
...perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances ; it did all very well before the flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication...and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterward ; but at present a man waits, and donbts, and hesitates, and consults... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...a hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterward ; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and consults his brother, and his uncle, and his first cousins, and hie particular friends, till one fine day he... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1850 - 624 pages
...a hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterward ; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and consults his brother, and his uncle, and his first cousins, and his particular friends, till one fine day he... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 428 pages
...a hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterward ; but at present a man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and consults his brother, and his uncle, and his first cousins, and his particular friends, till one fine day he... | |
 | 1851 - 350 pages
...did all very well hefore the flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended puhlication for a hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterwards; hut at present a man waits, and douhts, and hesitates, and consults... | |
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It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances : it did all very well before the Flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for a hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its success... 
