The Lure of the City: A Book for Young MenFunk & Wagnalls, 1908 - 284 páginas |
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... enter- prise : If you doubt that , open the Charities Directory of New York and observe the twelve hundred and more benevolences which are organized and carried on under the direct or indirect influence of the churches . Let those who ...
... enter- prise : If you doubt that , open the Charities Directory of New York and observe the twelve hundred and more benevolences which are organized and carried on under the direct or indirect influence of the churches . Let those who ...
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... enter upon it . The shibboleth of earnestness is " business . " It is the man who " means business " that succeeds . The young men and young women who turn their faces toward the throbbing life of the city have an earnest desire to ...
... enter upon it . The shibboleth of earnestness is " business . " It is the man who " means business " that succeeds . The young men and young women who turn their faces toward the throbbing life of the city have an earnest desire to ...
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... entered on a campaign without consult- ing the oracles of his pagan gods . The height of folly is reached by a youth who presumes to enter on the long campaign of life with no other guidance but that of his own short - sighted impulses ...
... entered on a campaign without consult- ing the oracles of his pagan gods . The height of folly is reached by a youth who presumes to enter on the long campaign of life with no other guidance but that of his own short - sighted impulses ...
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... enter professional life . He would be a lawyer , a clergyman , a physician , or a mechanical engi- neer . Very well ; the way is open before him . Our public schools are free . And any youth who wants to go to college can work his way ...
... enter professional life . He would be a lawyer , a clergyman , a physician , or a mechanical engi- neer . Very well ; the way is open before him . Our public schools are free . And any youth who wants to go to college can work his way ...
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... enter the lists of competition for the highest honors among us . Our first President began his life as a surveyor's apprentice ; and among his successors have been rail - splitters , tailors , and tow- path boys . Both houses of ...
... enter the lists of competition for the highest honors among us . Our first President began his life as a surveyor's apprentice ; and among his successors have been rail - splitters , tailors , and tow- path boys . Both houses of ...
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Página 175 - A fool, a fool ! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool ; a miserable world ! As I do live by food, I met a fool, Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool. Good-morrow, fool, quoth I. No, sir, quoth he, Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.
Página 175 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 163 - Are there no foes for me to face ? Must I not stem the flood ? Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God ? 4 Sure I must fight, if I would reign ; Increase my courage, Lord ! I'll bear the toil, endure the pain, Supported by thy word.
Página 83 - Rejoice, O young man in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Página 249 - Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled : Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold : Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Página 137 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable ; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words : Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Página 178 - No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool; The rod must heal the sin: but Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool!
Página 158 - For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee : for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Página 19 - I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul ioveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Página 138 - Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man : if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver. 40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.