1 Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish.
2 For every one must, at some time or other, have leave to speak to the prince, and whoever has this leave has opportunity to accomplish his design.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 3 Hanno, who has also been mentioned, failing to accomplish his object by poison, armed his partisans to the number of many thousands; but both he and they came to an ill end.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 4 But when fortune is not thus propitious to him, he must contrive other means to rid himself of rivals, and must do so successfully before he can accomplish anything.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXX. 5 Some half-hearted steps were taken to accomplish this, in part, by putting the whole matter again in charge of the special Treasury agents.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In II 6 And this the common schools and the manual training and trade schools are working to accomplish.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VI 7 Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In IX 8 I felt that I had reached the promised land, and I resolved to let no obstacle prevent me from putting forth the highest effort to fit myself to accomplish the most good in the world.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter III. 9 I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter IV. 10 I wondered if I could accomplish anything, and if it were worth while for me to try.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter VIII. 11 I am not sure if, in the long run, they do not accomplish as much or more than rushing, nervous Americans do.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonGet Context In Chapter XVI. 12 However, she was determined to accomplish it, for Rhett was coming to supper and he always noticed and commented upon any innovation of dress or hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XIII 13 She had been brought up to believe that a woman alone could accomplish nothing, yet she had managed the plantation without men to help her until Will came.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVI 14 But the task might take years to accomplish, even if she continued to stint herself to the utmost; and meanwhile her pride would be crushed under the weight of an intolerable obligation.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 10 15 All this the Thanatopsis Club was to accomplish with no difficulty whatever, since its several husbands were the controllers of business and politics.