"Build upon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through their idol, gold; he would buy some old earldom, and have orders and honors thrust upon him. His long, honorable descent would be a good foundation to build upon. He told himself that the Hallams ought to have built upon it generations ago. He almost despised his ancestors for the simple lives they had led. He could not endure to think of himself sitting down as squire Hallam and ruling a few cottagers and ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... we rode from camp to camp the General made the time most agreeable and profitable to me, by delivering a very able lecture on military affairs; laying down what he denominated a simple and sure foundation for the beginner to build upon. ...
— The Citizen-Soldier - or, Memoirs of a Volunteer • John Beatty
... thousand shrines, And build upon the sands, Passing the one great Temple, and The ...
— Hesperus - and Other Poems and Lyrics • Charles Sangster
... strange to make use of the mistakes of any people for a foundation to build upon: yet through these failures my system will be in some degree supported: at least from a detection of these errors, I hope to obtain much light. For, as the Grecian writers have preserved a kind of uniformity in their mistakes, and ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... was now constantly developing new, short-lived ambitions. Occasionally I became industrious for short periods of time. Indulgent and now prosperous parents provided a way for me to pursue my little ambitions. I had secured the rudimentary part of an education and I determined to build upon it. I was going to reach ...
— Confessions of a Neurasthenic • William Taylor Marrs
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