Success in Life: A Book for Young MenT. Nelson, 1858 - 332 páginas |
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... schemes of success or security fail . Two months from the day on which the vessel sailed , news ar- rived that she had been wrecked , and the whole cargo lost . Nor was this all : some informality , or neglect of the cap- tain ...
... schemes of success or security fail . Two months from the day on which the vessel sailed , news ar- rived that she had been wrecked , and the whole cargo lost . Nor was this all : some informality , or neglect of the cap- tain ...
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... schemes , which have proved , like the house of the foolish builders , founded on the sand . Or again , he is contrasted with Beckford of Fonthill , the showy , voluptuous man of taste and extravagance , whose costly monument of ...
... schemes , which have proved , like the house of the foolish builders , founded on the sand . Or again , he is contrasted with Beckford of Fonthill , the showy , voluptuous man of taste and extravagance , whose costly monument of ...
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... , that Heriot matured the scheme for founding an asylum for the orphan and destitute children of the Scottish capital , which still forms one of the noblest and most liberally endowed charitable institutions INDUSTRY . 95.
... , that Heriot matured the scheme for founding an asylum for the orphan and destitute children of the Scottish capital , which still forms one of the noblest and most liberally endowed charitable institutions INDUSTRY . 95.
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... schemes carried on on erroneous principles , or without a sufficiently strict regard to sterling integrity of purpose . In politics indeed , as in commerce , and indeed in all human transactions , honesty ever proves to be the best ...
... schemes carried on on erroneous principles , or without a sufficiently strict regard to sterling integrity of purpose . In politics indeed , as in commerce , and indeed in all human transactions , honesty ever proves to be the best ...
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... scheme , but the majority of the Scottish parliament passed the re- solution that " To establish any kind of paper - credit , so as to oblige it to pass ; were an improper expedient for the nation . " Law accordingly resolved to offer ...
... scheme , but the majority of the Scottish parliament passed the re- solution that " To establish any kind of paper - credit , so as to oblige it to pass ; were an improper expedient for the nation . " Law accordingly resolved to offer ...
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Página 180 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Página 315 - ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4 RESOLUTION Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Página 313 - Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.
Página 62 - Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try : Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. 4 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air ; His watchword at the gates of death ; He enters heaven with prayer. 5 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry—
Página 42 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Página 81 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Página 86 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Página 18 - as I have no means of knowing what is best to be done, I will be guided by the luck which shall attend this spider. If the insect shall make another effort to fix its thread, and shall be successful, I will venture a seventh time to try my fortune in Scotland ; but if the spider shall fail I will go to the wars in Palestine, and never return to my native country more.
Página 105 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 315 - TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid trifling conversation.