 The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be,— but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means— a very different thing!  Studies in Philosophy and Literature - Page 259by William Angus Knight - 1879 - 426 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1925 - 778 pages
...whole truth, and nothing but the truth about Competition. The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it...be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means. If Browning had been a scientific economist instead of a poet he would no doubt have pointed out that... | |
 | Samuel Cox - 1867 - 348 pages
...then The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is not to fancy what wore fair in life Providing it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then...fair Up to our means — a very different thing.* • " Bishop Blougram' s Apology :" Browning. That the Preacher should have attacked this common problem,... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
...conditions of the case altered. As Robert Browning profoundly says — " The common problem mine,yours, every one's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life...finding first What may be, then find how to make it fiir Up to our mean — a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plun of life . Quite irrespective... | |
 | 1897 - 1272 pages
...committed to her care ? " Go wake the seeds of good asleep throughout the world," sang Browning; and again: The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is —...it fair Up to our means : a very different thing. The Price By William Canton A man lived fifty years — joy dashed with tears ; Loved, toiled ; had... | |
 | 1869 - 1500 pages
...conditions of the case altered. As Kobert Browning profoundly says — " The common problem mine,yourB, every one's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life...What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our mean — a very different thing.! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's... | |
 | Walter Gregor - 1874 - 176 pages
...CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. EDUCATION — THE PARISH SCHOOL. " The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, la not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could...first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to eur means — a very different thing !" A MORE extended education was furnished at the parish school,... | |
 | 1913 - 416 pages
...Is not to fancy what were fair in life, Provided it could be, but, finding first What may be, then how to make it fair Up to our means — a very different thing 1 " The Exploring Delegation, vs. 3-25. These twelve heads of the children of Israel Moses sent forth... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...knowledge which we gain too frequently only after bitter experience. Listen to Robert Browning : — " The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is not...it fair, Up to our means — a very different thing ! " Hazlitt says that if a youth who shows no aptitude for languages dances well, we should abandon... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 pages
...more I am convinced that success or failure in it depends upon the due measurement of our powers. " The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is not...fancy what were fair in life, Provided it could be, bnt finding jnst What may be, then find how to make it fair, Up to our means — a very different thing... | |
 | Alice Weber - 1882 - 364 pages
...strength of that " old superstition " which Merlyn had put away with his childish things. CHAPTER XI. The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is —...it fair, Up to our means : a very different thing ! R. Browning. PHYLLIS survived it, and did not die of a broken heart. Some passages of a life may... | |
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