 My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.  Dickens as an Educator - Sivu 227tekijä(t) James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 319 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Zsuzsa Rawlinson - 2006 - 214 sivua
...charms of familiar conversations; she was always the *Cf.: "[...] whatever! have tried to do in life, 1 have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever...in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. [...] [TJhere is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness." (David Copperfield,... | |
 | Louis James - 2007 - 278 sivua
...own literary career through this period, gives as David Copperfield's credo for success as a writer, 'In great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest'. *Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil, or the Two Nations (1845), with its warning of a nation divided between... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1874 - 576 sivua
...and defeating him. I do not hold one natural gift, I clare say, that I have not abused. My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life,...small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. I havev never believed it possible that any natural or improved ability can claim immunity from the companionship... | |
 | 1909 - 256 sivua
...the explanation of •his own success whicli he puts into the mouth of David Copperfield: "My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life...in small I have always been thoroughly in earnest. 1 have never believed it possible that any natural or improved ability can claim immunity from the... | |
 | 1912 - 564 sivua
...successor should come upon its heels. Heaven knows I write this in no spirit of self-laudation. My meaning simply is that whatever I have tried to do in life...in small I have always been thoroughly in earnest." The Smoker's Tongue By HENEAGE GIBBES, MD, LRCP (Lond.), McAlester, Oklahoma EDITORIAL NOTE. — This... | |
 | 1912 - 772 sivua
...come upon its heels, which I then formed My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in my life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that...always been thoroughly in earnest. • • • I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. I make a respectable income by it. I am in high repute for... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1889 - 232 sivua
...he was engaged as reporter in the law-courts. From his own pen we learn the secret of his success: "Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well. What I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely." In 1831, when Dickens was 19 years... | |
 | 1885 - 288 sivua
...scholarship of their teacher. THE habit of connected recitation is one that should be wisely encouraged. "WHATEVER I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. In great aims and in small,... | |
 | 1888 - 408 sivua
...spirit. Flowers on the coffin cast no fragrance backward over the weary way." CHARLES DICKENS says : " Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well ; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely ; in great aims and in small,... | |
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