Life doubled by the economy of time. By the author of “How a Penny became a Thousand Pounds” [Robert Kemp-Philp]. |
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... observe the arrogant ; he clotheth himself in rich attire , he walketh in the public street , he casteth round his eyes , and courteth observation . " He tosseth up his head , and overlooketh the poor ; he treateth his inferiors with ...
... observe the arrogant ; he clotheth himself in rich attire , he walketh in the public street , he casteth round his eyes , and courteth observation . " He tosseth up his head , and overlooketh the poor ; he treateth his inferiors with ...
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... observation of every day , convinceth me of these things ; though all history and all the records of the grave attest it ; though all man- kind , in every age , have found it so ; though it be a manifest " Not only the sands that fall ...
... observation of every day , convinceth me of these things ; though all history and all the records of the grave attest it ; though all man- kind , in every age , have found it so ; though it be a manifest " Not only the sands that fall ...
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... observe or survey ; for as the name of HORO- SCOPE was anciently given to a scale formed to show the number and progress of the hours of the day , there seemed a strict propriety in calling by the name of BIOSCOPE a scale designed to ...
... observe or survey ; for as the name of HORO- SCOPE was anciently given to a scale formed to show the number and progress of the hours of the day , there seemed a strict propriety in calling by the name of BIOSCOPE a scale designed to ...
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... Observe where the Bioscope of that departed friend reached its junction with eternity , and let that point serve for ever to warn and convince us that we hold no property whatever in any particle of the scale which lies beyond the index ...
... Observe where the Bioscope of that departed friend reached its junction with eternity , and let that point serve for ever to warn and convince us that we hold no property whatever in any particle of the scale which lies beyond the index ...
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... observe those who have been allured by her smiles , who have listened to her temptations . " Are they not meagre ? are they not sickly ? are they not spiritless ? " Their short hours of jollity and riot are followed by tedious days of ...
... observe those who have been allured by her smiles , who have listened to her temptations . " Are they not meagre ? are they not sickly ? are they not spiritless ? " Their short hours of jollity and riot are followed by tedious days of ...
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actions ADMIRAL NELSON allotted Ancient Bramin awake BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Bioscope blessing body Briggs called cerns cloth consider crown 8vo death Diagram dial diligence Doctor Duke Duke of Wellington duties earth Economy employed employment endeavour ETERNITY evil father Fcap Fleet Street FLOWERS folly fool Franklin give goeth habits hand happiness hath heaven heraldry honour HOULSTON human idle impressions improve industry JOHN FOX keep labour leave live look Lord Lord Chatham lost Mallem man's mankind means mind morning motto nature never night Nihil once persons Pikesville pleasure present profit reader reason redeem rich rise shillings SIR MATTHEW Sir Matthew Hale sleep sloth soul speak spend spirit strabismus TABLET talk temper thee Theophilus thine things thoughts thousand thy heart thyself tion truth unto virtues volume waste whole wisdom wise words
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Página 66 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Página 87 - INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Página 19 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Página 66 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed : Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Página 86 - In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking; while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.
Página 86 - I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping ; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
Página 87 - Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. MODERATION Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Página 91 - ... satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...
Página 97 - I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point.
Página 78 - An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.