Bookbag (0)
Search:
UVA-LIB-Text in subject [X]
University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection in subject [X]
Path::2006_02::uvaBook::tei::eaf019v1.xml in subject [X]
Modify Search | New Search
Results:  1 ItemBrowse by Facet | Title | Author
Sorted by:  
Page: 1
Subject
collapsePath
collapse2006_02
collapseuvaBook
collapsetei
•eaf019v1.xml[X]
•UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 (1)
•UVA-LIB-Text[X]
•University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 (1)
•University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection[X]
Date
expand1997 (1)
1Author:  Bird Robert Montgomery 1806-1854Add
 Title:  The Adventures of Robin Day  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
 Description: Sylla, the Roman dictator, is, as far as I know, the only great man on record who attributed his advancement to good luck; all other great men being modestly content to refer their successes in life to their own merits; insisting, with the philosophers, that there is not, in reality, any such thing as luck at all, good, bad, or indifferent, but that every man's fortune, whether happy or evil, is referable to his own agency, the direct result of his own wise or foolish actions. Such may be the fact, for aught I can say, (it is a comfortable doctrinef or the fortunate,) and I do not pretend to controvert it; but of one thing I am very certain, namely, that whether there be bad luck in the world or not, there is an abundance of those unhappy personages who are commonly considered its victims—that is to say, unlucky dogs; of which race I was undoubtedly born a member.
 Similar Items:  Find