He that paddles looks ahead, and the approach is more easily regulated, when the whole of the boat's crew are apprised, by means of their own senses, of the actual state of things, than when they attain their ideas of them through the orders of an officer.

Through griefs and joys, each sad and sweet, Thou shalt attain the end; Till then a goddess incomplete O evermore my friend!

30 Would you true happiness attain, Let honesty your passions rein; So live in credit and esteem, And the good name you lost, redeem.'

He would seize what he wanted, since he could attain his end in no other way.

A British Parliament should attain not only the best ends, but by the wisest means.

He was persuaded they would act wisely to attain the end pointed out to them.

Brain workers in business and industry feel deeply the need of greater mental efficiency and seek eagerly for means to attain it.

In academic terms this means that in order to attain a grade of 95 in college you will have to work much harder than you did for that grade in high school, for here you have not only more difficult subject-matter, but also keener competition for the first place.

At other times we are called upon to use the knowledge we already possess in order to attain some end that is set before us."

"Bounded by themselves, and unregardful In what state God's other works may be, In their own tasks all their powers pouring, These attain the mighty life you see.

Perhaps it is best that finite beings should not attain infinite success.

But he who loves himself the last And knows the use of pain, Though strewn with errors all his past, He surely shall attain.

But since the journey of Carl Semper it has been known that not only Malays but also Negritos tattoo; indeed, this admirable explorer has decided that the "Negroes of the East Coast" practice a different method of tattooing from that of the Mariveles in the west, and on that account they attain different results.

Did she, like these holy women, attain the end?

Pilate was quite provoked at the intense hatred which their words and countenances expressed and, turning from them with a look of scorn, exclaimed, 'You most certainly must wish to follow his doctrines and to attain eternal life, for you are thirsting for both his body and blood.'

Salvestro de' Medici was master of the situationthe first of his family to attain the virtual, if not the real, control of the State.

If one Messer arrived at some degree of prominence, then the best way for him to attain his end was to pit himself against another of his class nearest to him in influence.

For he felt, besides, at odds with Heaven itself, in that he had not been able to attain his goal in an undertaking of so great magnitude, involving the overthrow of Nero and the liberation of the Romans.

But Joe caught Brick before he could attain his end, and together they rolled over and over in the dirt, locked in each other's arms.

"When her vex'd infant to her bosom clings, "When round her neck his eager arms he flings; "Breathes to her list'ning soul his melting sigh, "And lifts suffus'd with tears his asking eye! "Will she for all ambition can attain, "The charms of pleasure, or the lures of gain, "Betray strong Nature's feelings, will she prove "Cold to the claims of duty, and of love?

No country is free in which the way upward is not open for every man to try, and for every properly qualified man to attain whatever of good the community life may offer.

Might the master, then, in order more fully to attain the great ends for which he was created and redeemed, freely exert himself to increase his acquaintance with his own powers, and relations, and resourceswith his prospects, opportunities, and advantages?

The long struggle between von Kühlmann and the generals has ended in the fall of the Minister; but not before he had indicated to the Reichstag the possibility of another Thirty Years' War, and asserted that no intelligent man ever entertained the wish that Germany should attain world-domination.

Some trees attain large size in a swampy country.

" A hard saying, indeed, seems this same; that he, whose other wants were all beforehand supplied; to whose capabilities no problem was presented except even this, How to cultivate them to best advantage, should attain less real culture than he whose first grand problem and obligation was nowise spiritual culture, but hard labour for his daily bread!