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" What a career !' exclaimed the stranger; rising from his chair and walking up and down the room ; ' the secret sway of Europe ! That was indeed a position ! But it is needless to multiply instances ! The history of Heroes is the history of Youth. "
The Romance of Biography. Chapters on the Strange and Wonderful in Human Life - Page 43
by Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 383 pages
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Coningsby; Or, The New Generation, Volume 1

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1844 - 340 pages
...America before he was thirty-seven. What a career !" exclaimed the stranger, rising from his chair and walking up and down the room, " the secret sway...instances. The history of Heroes is the history of Youth." " Ah !" said Coningsby, " I should like to be a great man !" The stranger threw at him a scrutinizing...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 18

1849 - 600 pages
...America, before he was thirty-seven. What a career! exclaimed the stranger, rising from his chair, and walking up and down the room ; ' the secret sway...instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth."' Youth is then a great qualification for a political leader. True, " Vivian Grey " is no longer at that...
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Coningsby, Or, The New Generation

Benjamin Disraeli - 1844 - 168 pages
...career!" exclaimed the stranger, rising from his chair and walking up and down the room, " the secret j sway of Europe ! That was indeed a position ! But...instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth." " Ah !" said Coningsby, " I should like to be a great man!" The stranger threw at him a scrutinizing...
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The Teacher's visitor. Ed. by W.C.Wilson, Volumes 1-2

William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 842 pages
...general of the Jesuits, ruled every cabinet in Europe, and colonized America before he was thirtyseven. But it is needless to multiply instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth. PARENTAL AUTHORITY. ST. PAUL has said, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."...
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The Christian Witness, and Church Member's Magazine:, Volume 2

1845 - 632 pages
...general of the Jesuits, ruled every cabinet in Europe, and colonized America before he was thirty-seven. But it is needless to multiply instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth. — D'hraeli. 136 LINES BT A DISTINGUISHED DIVINE OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHUBCB. On that the soul of...
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 1

1847 - 828 pages
...general of the Jesuits, ruled every cabinet m Europe, and colonised America before he was thirty-seven. But it is needless to multiply instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth. — Coningsby. A Mr. Langton told Dr. Johnson that he was about to establish a school upon his estate...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 18

1849 - 602 pages
...America, before he was thirty-seven. What a career ! exclaimed the stranger, rising from his chair, and walking up and down the room ; ' the secret sway...instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth.'" Youth is then a great qualification for a political leader. True, " Vivian Grey " is no longer at that...
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The Uses of Biography: Romantic, Philosophic, and Didactic

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 224 pages
...America, before he was thirty-seven: ' What a career !' exclaimed the stranger, rising from his chair, and walking up and down the room, ' the secret sway...of the development of extraordinary powers in youth — the attainment of posts of command and importance — while others were only in their nurseries...
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The Uses of Biography: Romantic, Philosophic, and Didactic

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 228 pages
...exclaimed the stranger, rising from his chair, and walking up and down the room, ' the secret sway j of Europe ! That was, indeed, a position ! ' But '...of the development of extraordinary powers in youth — the attainment of posts of command and importance — while others were only in their nurseries...
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Things Not Generally Known: A Popular Hand-book of Facts Not Readily ...

John Timbs - 1857 - 444 pages
...Jesuits, ruled every cabinet in Europe, and colonized America, before he was thirty-seven. What a career ! the secret sway of Europe ! That was indeed a position...instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth." WHO WAS JUNTOS 1 This veied question has called forth no less than forty works in England, and about...
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