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" 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 33
by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1844 - 548 pages
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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D.: Late Head ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D.: Late Head ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold: D. D., Late Head ..., Volume 2

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,...
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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D., Late Head-master of ...

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...
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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold

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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 32

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...
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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D.: Late Head ..., Volume 1

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...
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The treasury of modern biography, compiled by R. Cochrane, Issue 92

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...
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Ohio Educational Monthly, Volume 31

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...
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The Sunday Magazine, Volume 13

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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