Getting On in the World; Or, Hints On Success in Life. by William Mathews ...Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1874 - 380 páginas |
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... exhausted his patience in attempts to imitate on the piano a storm at sea , accomplished the precise result by angrily extending his hands to the two extremities of the keys , and bringing them rapidly together , all these seem to many ...
... exhausted his patience in attempts to imitate on the piano a storm at sea , accomplished the precise result by angrily extending his hands to the two extremities of the keys , and bringing them rapidly together , all these seem to many ...
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... they turn their very pleasures into toil , and , from mere lack of something to do , engage in the most arduous and exhausting pastimes . To escape from the miseries of ennui 34 GETTING ON IN THE WORLD . CHAPTER III. ...
... they turn their very pleasures into toil , and , from mere lack of something to do , engage in the most arduous and exhausting pastimes . To escape from the miseries of ennui 34 GETTING ON IN THE WORLD . CHAPTER III. ...
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William Mathews. exhausting pastimes . To escape from the miseries of ennui , they resort to the most pitiful ... exhausted by employment , but they are utterly destroyed by idleness . Burton , in his quaint old work , in summing ...
William Mathews. exhausting pastimes . To escape from the miseries of ennui , they resort to the most pitiful ... exhausted by employment , but they are utterly destroyed by idleness . Burton , in his quaint old work , in summing ...
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... exhausted ; sometimes watching the mind's unrestrained seekings , sometimes bringing the world's stores , and laying them at its feet for a choice . The head of the Caxtons , in Bulwer's novel , will furnish him a hint here , worthy of ...
... exhausted ; sometimes watching the mind's unrestrained seekings , sometimes bringing the world's stores , and laying them at its feet for a choice . The head of the Caxtons , in Bulwer's novel , will furnish him a hint here , worthy of ...
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... exhausted opponent has hardly more vitality than a bag of sand ? On the other hand , of what avail are brilliant talents and a splendid education to a young man just entering manhood , who has a feeble constitution ? It is Ulysses ' bow ...
... exhausted opponent has hardly more vitality than a bag of sand ? On the other hand , of what avail are brilliant talents and a splendid education to a young man just entering manhood , who has a feeble constitution ? It is Ulysses ' bow ...
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ability acquired attained battle become body brain brilliant calling career CHAPTER character Charles James Fox Charles Lamb circumstances dollars doubt Douglas Jerrold effort energy England exhausted faculties fail failure feel force fortune genius give Goethe habit hand hard heart Henry Ward Beecher honor human hundred intellectual J. W. Alexander Jeremy Bentham knowledge labor lack lawyer learning leisure live look Lord man's Mantua matter means mental merchant mind Molière moral Napoleon nature neglect ness never night once orator palæstra patient persons poet politics poor profession pursuit qualities reserved power result rich Rufus Choate says sermon Sir William Hamilton soul strength struggle success Sydney Smith talent tells things thought thousand tion toil true truth turn victory vigor walk wealth whole write young
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Página 238 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order ; ready, like a steam-engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Página 105 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
Página 96 - Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Página 192 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Página 97 - Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these.
Página 127 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Página 87 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Página 5 - Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace, From infant's play, and man's caprice : The lovely toy so fiercely sought Hath lost its charm by being caught...