aussiebear
11-30-2007, 09:14 AM
A friend passed me this book called "The Magic Story".
I'm reading through it, and I run into a paragraph where I'm not too sure on the meaning. :confused: (I'm fine with the rest of the book, its just this part that has me a little baffled).
Here is the quote and the related context.
My father, then, was a seafaring man who, early in life, forsook his vocation, and settled on a plantation in the colony of Virginia, where, some years thereafter, I was born, which event took place in the year 1642; and that was over a hundred years ago. Better for my father had it been, had he hearkened to the wise advice of my mother, that he remain in the calling of his education; but he would not have it so, and the good vessel he captained was bartered for the land I spoke of. Here beginneth the first lesson to be acquired:
Man should not be blinded to whatsoever merit exists in the opportunity which he hath in hand, remembering that a thousand promises for the future should weigh as naught against the possession of a single piece of silver.
How would you interpret this?
I'm reading through it, and I run into a paragraph where I'm not too sure on the meaning. :confused: (I'm fine with the rest of the book, its just this part that has me a little baffled).
Here is the quote and the related context.
My father, then, was a seafaring man who, early in life, forsook his vocation, and settled on a plantation in the colony of Virginia, where, some years thereafter, I was born, which event took place in the year 1642; and that was over a hundred years ago. Better for my father had it been, had he hearkened to the wise advice of my mother, that he remain in the calling of his education; but he would not have it so, and the good vessel he captained was bartered for the land I spoke of. Here beginneth the first lesson to be acquired:
Man should not be blinded to whatsoever merit exists in the opportunity which he hath in hand, remembering that a thousand promises for the future should weigh as naught against the possession of a single piece of silver.
How would you interpret this?