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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... Shilling , cloth , gilt edges , PHILOSOPHY AND MIRTH UNITED BY PEN AND PENCIL . Original Charades , Enigmas , and Puzzles , for Winter Evenings . One Vol . , crown 8vo . , 2s . 6d . , cloth , or each work separately , 1s . 6d . , cloth ...
... Shilling , cloth , gilt edges , PHILOSOPHY AND MIRTH UNITED BY PEN AND PENCIL . Original Charades , Enigmas , and Puzzles , for Winter Evenings . One Vol . , crown 8vo . , 2s . 6d . , cloth , or each work separately , 1s . 6d . , cloth ...
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... Shilling , sewed , COMPOSITION AND ELOCUTION ; or , How to Speak and Write . By SAMUEL NEIL . Crown 8vo . , Sixpence ... Shilling , cloth , AN HOUR WITH THE KINGS . An easy method of remembering some of the Chief Facts and Dates of ...
... Shilling , sewed , COMPOSITION AND ELOCUTION ; or , How to Speak and Write . By SAMUEL NEIL . Crown 8vo . , Sixpence ... Shilling , cloth , AN HOUR WITH THE KINGS . An easy method of remembering some of the Chief Facts and Dates of ...
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... shillings a day . That is his individual and direct reward . But when his work is done , and he gets into the train to travel to market to buy food , or to the country to seek employment , or to take his children to see places to which ...
... shillings a day . That is his individual and direct reward . But when his work is done , and he gets into the train to travel to market to buy food , or to the country to seek employment , or to take his children to see places to which ...
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... shillings a - day by his labour , and goes abroad , or sits idle half of that day , though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness , ought not to reckon that his only expense ; he has really spent , or rather thrown away ...
... shillings a - day by his labour , and goes abroad , or sits idle half of that day , though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness , ought not to reckon that his only expense ; he has really spent , or rather thrown away ...
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... shilling novels , and always chose as his type the worst hero in a trashy romance , until he acquired such an extraordinary physiognomy , and displayed such a variety of notions upon the cultivation of an imperial and mustachios , that ...
... shilling novels , and always chose as his type the worst hero in a trashy romance , until he acquired such an extraordinary physiognomy , and displayed such a variety of notions upon the cultivation of an imperial and mustachios , that ...
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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.