I have always thought," he writes in 1823, " with regard to ambition, that I should like to be aut Caesar aut nullus, and as it is pretty well settled for me that I shall not be Caesar, I am quite content to live in peace as nullus. The life and correspondence of Thomas Arnold - Page 33by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1844 - 548 pagesFull view - About this book
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1844 - 476 pages
...business of his daily duties acted as a check upon his own inclinations' and speculations. Accordingly, when he entered upon his work at Laleham, he seems...always / thought," he writes in 1823, "with regard to am- ' bition, that I should like to be aut Caesar aut nullus*/ and as it is pretty well settled for... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1845 - 478 pages
...business of his daily duties acted as a check upon his own inclinations and speculations. Accordingly, when he entered upon his work at Laleham, he seems...Caesar, I am quite content to live in peace as nullus." It was a period, indeed, on which he used himself to look back, even from the wider usefulness of his... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1845 - 566 pages
...business of his daily duties acted as a check upon his own inclinations and speculations. Accordingly, when he entered upon his work at Laleham, he seems...have regarded it as his work for life. "I have always tbought," he writes in 1823, " with regard to ambition, that I should like to be aut Cœsar aut nullus,... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1846 - 558 pages
...always thought," he writes in 1823, " with regard to ambition, that I should like to be aut Cassar aut nullus, and as it is pretty well settled for me...Caesar, I am quite content to live in peace as nullus." It was a period indeed on which he used himself to look hack, even from the wider usefulness of his... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1852 - 812 pages
...business of his daily duties acted as a check upon his own inclinations and speculations. Accordingly, when he entered upon his work at Laleham, he seems...is pretty well settled for me that I shall not be Ctesar, I am quite content to live in peace as nullus." It was a period, indeed, on which he used himself... | |
| 1854 - 604 pages
...have always thought," he wrote, " with regard to ambition, that I should like to be aut Ccesar out nullus ; and as it is pretty well settled for me that...Caesar, I am quite content to live in peace as nullus." He appears to have long felt the temptation ; for many years after, at Rugby, he made this confession... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1877 - 796 pages
...business of his daily duties acted as a check upon his own inclinations and speculations. Accordingly, when he entered upon his work at Laleham, he seems...ambition, that I should like to be aut Caesar aut mtllus, and as it is prefty well scttled for me that I shall not be Caesar, 1 am quite content to live... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...wrote, "I have always thought, with regard to ambition, that I should like to be aui Ccesar aut nuUus, and as it is pretty well settled for me that I shall not be Ciesar, I am quite content to live in peace as nuttus." His favourite passage of Holy Writ at this... | |
| 1882 - 596 pages
...England or on the Continent. It was during this period in 1823 that he wrote: "I have always thought with regard to ambition, that I should like to be...Caesar, I am quite content to live in peace as nullus." But Arnold during this period of quiet was gathering that strength which was to be expended in the... | |
| 1884 - 892 pages
...Writing in 1823 he said, " I have always thought with regard to ambition I should like to be aut Ctzsar aut nullus, and as it is pretty well settled for me that I shall not be Qesar, I am quite content to live in peace as nullus." Happy the man in whom mere selfish ambition... | |
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