 | John Edwin Nixon - Latin language - 1892 - 158 pages
...epistolary11 business in hand; that a letter may be written upon anything or nothing just as that anything or nothing happens27 to occur. A man that has a journey...reach the end of it; for he knows, that by the simple operation11 of moving33 one foot forward first, and then the other, he shall be sure to accomplish... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1892 - 524 pages
...just as that anything or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not...it : for he knows that by the simple operation of moving one foot forward first, and then the other, he shall be sure to accomplish it. So it is in the... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1897 - 456 pages
...a general analysis of the following sentence: — A man that has a journey before him, twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not...doubt whether he shall set out or not, because he Hoes not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it ; for he knows that by the simple operation... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - Authors, English - 1899 - 324 pages
...just as that anything or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not...of it: for he knows that by the simple operation of moving one foot forward first, and then the other, he shall be sure to accomplish it. So it is in the... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - Readers - 1901 - 526 pages
...just as that anything or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not...it ; for he knows that by the simple operation of moving one foot forward first, and then the other, he shall be sure to accomplish it. So it is in the... | |
 | Oscar Israel Woodley, Myra Soper Woodley, George Rice Carpenter - English language - 1902 - 186 pages
...just as that anything or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not hesitate and doubt whether he will set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he will ever reach the end of it ; for... | |
 | William Cowper, Thomas Wright - Authors, English - 1904 - 542 pages
...to this riddle appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1806 : — ' A riddle by Cowper twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not...it : for he knows that by the simple operation of moving one foot forward first, and then the other, he shall be sure to accomplish it. So it is in the... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
...just as that anything or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not...of it; for he knows that by the simple operation of moving one foot forward first, and then the other, he shall be sure to accomplish it. So it is in the... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1912 - 540 pages
...just as that any thing or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not...whether he shall set out or not, because he does not readUy conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it: for he knows, that by the simple operation of... | |
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... or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not hesitate and doubt whether he shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the... 
