 The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing!  The Children's Friend - Page 1631912Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1925 - 778 pages
...whole truth, and nothing but the truth about Competition. The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it...be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means. If Browning had been a scientific economist instead of a poet he would no doubt have pointed out that... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...— you beat me there. No, friend, you do not beat me, — hearken why. The common problem, your's, mine, every one's, Is not to fancy what were fair...it fair Up to our means — a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...be all, I would be merely much — you beat me there. No, friend, you do not beat me ; hearken why. The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is not...it fair Up to our means — a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man,... | |
 | Samuel Cox - Bible - 1867 - 348 pages
...then The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is not to fancy what wore fair in life Providing it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then...fair Up to our means — a very different thing.* • " Bishop Blougram' s Apology :" Browning. That the Preacher should have attacked this common problem,... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
...conditions of the case altered. As Robert Browning profoundly says — " The common problem mine,yours, every one's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life...finding first What may be, then find how to make it fiir Up to our mean — a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plun of life . Quite irrespective... | |
 | 1897 - 1272 pages
...committed to her care ? " Go wake the seeds of good asleep throughout the world," sang Browning; and again: The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is —...it fair Up to our means : a very different thing. The Price By William Canton A man lived fifty years — joy dashed with tears ; Loved, toiled ; had... | |
 | 1869 - 1500 pages
...conditions of the case altered. As Kobert Browning profoundly says — " The common problem mine,yourB, every one's, Is not to fancy what were fair in life...What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our mean — a very different thing.! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1872 - 310 pages
...would be all, I would be merely much: you beat me there. No, friend, you do not beat me: hearken why The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is —...make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man, who... | |
 | Walter Gregor - Scotland - 1874 - 176 pages
...CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. EDUCATION — THE PARISH SCHOOL. " The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, la not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could...first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to eur means — a very different thing !" A MORE extended education was furnished at the parish school,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1876 - 360 pages
...there. No, friend, you do not beat me, — hearken why The common problem, your'srmine, every one's3 Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it...it fair Up to our means — a very different thing ! No abstract intellectual plan of life Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws, But one, a man,... | |
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