Would it not be expecting too much to hope to succeed at your first attempt? Why not try to find an opening in another direction from that which has so unfortunately failed?"
Another, older and less strong than he, had attempted what he had not had sufficient resolution to undertake, and had failed only because of an error in calculation.
Even, under these inauspicious circumstances I again and again renewed the
attempt, but when I did so, my valet always rose with me, as if determined I should not remove myself from his observation.
To attempt to pass through the midst of that fierce herd seemed, even to me, the height of folly, and so I proposed to Thuvan Dihn that he return to the outer world with Woola, that the two might find their way to civilization and come again with a sufficient force to overcome not only the apts, but any further obstacles that might lie between us and our goal.
I knew from his tone that it were useless to attempt to argue the question, and so I compromised by sending Woola back with a hastily penned note enclosed in a small metal case and fastened about his neck.
Many knights had come from afar to try their luck, but it was in vain they attempted to climb the mountain.
The sight of her always gave men fresh courage, and they flocked from the four quarters of the globe to attempt the work of rescuing her.
This can be easily accomplished by his friends, who will incur no danger in making the
attempt to save him, but will be disgraced for ever if they allow him to perish.
The effect of this disinclination, on the part of the public, towards the artificers of their pleasures, when they attempt to enlarge their means of amusing, may be seen in the censures usually passed by vulgar criticism upon actors or artists who venture to change the character of their efforts, that, in so doing, they may enlarge the scale of their art.
He does not recollect that there was any attempt to contrast the two races in their habits and sentiments; and indeed it was obvious, that history was violated by introducing the Saxons still existing as a high-minded and martial race of nobles.
If a man perform that, which hath not been
attempted before; or
attempted and given over; or hath been achieved, but not with so good circumstance; he shall purchase more honor, than by effecting a matter of greater difficulty or virtue, wherein he is but a follower.
Every indignity, in the
attempt to find out, was wreaked upon Michael.
Thus, then, it is conclusive that to
attempt things from which harm rather than advantage may come to us is the part of unreasoning and reckless minds, more especially when they are things which we are not forced or compelled to
attempt, and which show from afar that it is plainly madness to
attempt them.
Could they enter any of its doors while the whole party of Indians was plunged in a drunken sleep, or was it safer to
attempt to make a hole in the walls?
Captain Bonneville sets out for Green River valley Journey up the Popo Agie Buffaloes The staring white bears The smoke The warm springs
Attempt to traverse the Wind River Mountains The Great Slope Mountain dells and chasms Crystal lakes Ascent of a snowy peak Sublime prospect A panorama "Les dignes de pitie," or wild men of the mountains
