Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-11-29


stance occurred in the case of Disrael
When he attempted his maiden speech
his colleagues laughed at him and cough
ed him down. He turned upon then
and remarked "Tll take my seat ao,o
but the time will come when you'll hear
me-" 1t did come, for this abashed or
ator became Premier of Eng land and
the most formida BILE rival of the great
Gladstone.
The next element shall name as es.
scntial to success is patient perseverance,
1t is, indeed, but natural sequence Of
WW-power or mental determination. No
complete results In anything can be
reached without it. No display of talent
or throb of genius can develop com
pleteness by single impulse or trial,
but much that is taken for the impromp.
tn deliverances of genius is. if the truth
were known, but the final outcome Of
repeated efforts Especially is this true
of chemistry, of poetry, and of oratory.
Byron's poems read as if they had fall
en- naturally and with virgin freshness
from the brain of the great author; but
an inspection of a manuscript of his
Childe Harold has shown that The final
revision of it was scarcely legible on ac-
count of erasures and interlineations. =
He had written and rewritten it, and
only gave it to the public after his best
rhetorical compositions had boon ex-
hausted. The same, doubtless, may be
said of all the standard classics 10 the
poetic line, of Homer, Virgil, Dante,
Milton, and even Of Shakespeare.
Patrick Henry's pleadings aud ora
tons had an apparent extemporary value
which astonished his auditors. But il
is no secret that most of them, and the
best of them, were the utterances Of
well-digested and matured thoughts. -
While bis neighbors thought hin out
cunning and fishing he was preparing
his briefs in the forests or by tho water
brooks From these points he would
hurry into the courthouse with gun in
hand and game-bag on his loins, argue
his case methodically, with thrilling olo-
quence, and so win his cause
The perfection of statue is due more
to the repeated little taps of the artists
mallet than to the first strokes of his
ponderous hammer. So the perspective
of picture is attained by the delicate
touches of brush and pencil. till proper
combination of light and shade is found
to give lifelike expression in high re-
lief. But this can only be accomplished
by patient perseverance. Careless haste
might be ruinous. Wellington said that
Napoleon's Impotence to make bold
and decisive dash cost him the battle Of
Waterloo, after bis escape from Elba
Had he been content to maneuvrc on
the defensive and fight on interior lines
no might have bafiied the allied forces,
perhaps beaten them in detail, and so
have prevented their invasion Of France
Remember, then the old Latin proverb ::
Perseverance conquers all things"
A man ambitious to excel in any I'M
dcrtaking ought to possess II liberal share
of manly pride or seif-retiance. OF
course we do not mean pomposity, or
egotism, or snobbishness but lauda-
Bile independence, which prompts man
to decline help from others when he
knows he can help himself. An anec-
dote of Dr.. johnson will illustrate our
meaning. He was the chief of the cele-
brated literary club in London which was
made up, besides himself, Of such celeb.
rites as Goldsmith, Garrck, Sir Joshua
Reynolds, Boswell, Wilkes and others
equally distinguished He was n cor
pulent man and naturally indolent. He
would not work above a starving point,
though excessively fond of luxurious liv-
ing. His garments had become seedy
and his shoes rusty. His friends wished
to present. him with new pair, but how
to tender them without giving offence
was capital difficulty. They finally
concluded to put them into his bod
chamber, hoping that he would take tho
hint and appropriate them in silence
When the learned Doctor arose in the
morning 20 make his toilet, there were
the shoes under his eyes He de,iber-
atcly tossed them out Of a window, NUT
tering to himself. when l want shoes
| can work for them !" But his pride
was touched, and his genius effervesced
for work. He few to his escritoir and
it is said wrote his Rasselas. ono Of the
most pleasing of historical fictions, with
in the space of two days. That brought
him the funds he needed and the great
scholar was himself again.
There are conditions of character and
forms of etiquette that are very efficient
auxiliaries to the elements Of success,
already mentioned These are purity,
temperance and potiteness. BY purity
we do not mean absolute holiness, but
freedom from vicious habits and, worse,
immoral behavior. On the ''pure 10
heart" Christ pronounced benediction.
Nor does temperance consist in simply
abstaining from the use of intoxicating
drinks, but in avoiding all uscp and
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