...circumstances, proved themselves far greater in adversity than they had ever done in prosperity — " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it ! " The ladies plaited straw for their own bonnets, seated on the grass ; while the princes read aloud...

...circumstances, proved themselves far greater in adversity than they had ever done in prosperity : — " "Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it !" The ladies plaited straw for their own bonnets, seated on the grass, while the princes read aloud...

...simplified, while the useful working power was increased. They feel with Addison's Cato that — " It is not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." §urnle£ Coal-Jfblb, BY EDWARD HULL, BA, FGS, Of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. THE description...

...to parliament. All men seem to have been actuated by the spirit of one of Shakespeare's heroes — " 'Tis not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it." the exhibition of some point of doctrine, or of Christian experience. Let each one of us endeavour...

...bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath, and whispering humbleness, Say this ? SUCCESS.— TIS not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius : we'll deserve it. ADDISON. — Cato, Act I. Scene 1. And on a love-book pray for my nuccess. SHAESPERE. — Two Gentlemen...

...terse line, " To point a moral or adorn a tale ; " Addison's passage, so often given to Shakespeare, " 'Tis not in mortals to command success; but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it;" Comical old Dogberry, with his " not the men he took them for; " Spenser's line so often quoted, and...

...events of war, I'll animate the soldiers' drooping courage, With love of freedom, and contempt of life : I'll thunder in their ears their country's cause, And try to rouse up all that's Roman in them. 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius ; we'll deserve it [Exit....

...keep their ground as habitual quotations, eg : — • ' ... big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.' ' 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.' ' Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.' ' I think the Romans call it Stoicism.' ' My voice is still...

...courage With love of freedom, and contempt of life, And try to rouso up all that's Roman in 'cm. Tia not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.' [A'.ríí Sem. Curse on the stripling I How he apea his sire: Is well dispos'd to mischief. Cato has...

...OF STRIKING BUSINESS ADVENTURES, VICISSITUDES, EXPLOITS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS, BOTH SERIOUS AND COMICAL. 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.— ABDISOH'S " CATO." In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to BOW and reap at once ;...