The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Man, Or, Compendious Dissertations, Respecting Social and Domestic Relations and Concerns, and the Various Economy of Life: Designed For, and Adapted To, the Use of American Academies and Common SchoolsJ.D. Bemis & Company, 1823 - 264 sider |
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... short , I have endeavored to make it such a manual as had been greatly needed by myself in the green years of my own life , and such as may relieve the needs of the young and inexperienced at all times . If there be found in it ...
... short , I have endeavored to make it such a manual as had been greatly needed by myself in the green years of my own life , and such as may relieve the needs of the young and inexperienced at all times . If there be found in it ...
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... short remainder of my life , but even after my mortal part shall have been enclosed in the grave , it would tend to smooth and gild my passage to that dreary man- sion . If they should be read by many , and with profit ; if they should ...
... short remainder of my life , but even after my mortal part shall have been enclosed in the grave , it would tend to smooth and gild my passage to that dreary man- sion . If they should be read by many , and with profit ; if they should ...
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... short bio- graphical notice of one of the first and wealthiest mer- chants of the last age , the writer remarks : - " It was an invariable rule with him to avoid every kind of dan- gerous experiment , and to confine himself to such ...
... short bio- graphical notice of one of the first and wealthiest mer- chants of the last age , the writer remarks : - " It was an invariable rule with him to avoid every kind of dan- gerous experiment , and to confine himself to such ...
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... unsuccessful : for in no country whatever can more than a comparative few arrive at wealth . By far the greater part of the candidates , fall- ing short of their expectations , endure the pangs of 3 ON THE WAYS OF MAN . 25.
... unsuccessful : for in no country whatever can more than a comparative few arrive at wealth . By far the greater part of the candidates , fall- ing short of their expectations , endure the pangs of 3 ON THE WAYS OF MAN . 25.
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... short of their expectations , endure the pangs of dis- appointment , and pine under the corrodings of envy . With some , avarice defeats its own aim . Their greedi- ness of gain , if it impel them not to deeds of fraud or vi- olence ...
... short of their expectations , endure the pangs of dis- appointment , and pine under the corrodings of envy . With some , avarice defeats its own aim . Their greedi- ness of gain , if it impel them not to deeds of fraud or vi- olence ...
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Side 61 - Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd: For contemplation he and valour form'd; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace...
Side 198 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...
Side 198 - A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste; Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death Such is earth's melancholy map! but, far 'More sad! this earth is a true map of man: So bounded are its haughty lord's delights To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss.
Side 104 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep...
Side 114 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Side 178 - Apart, she sigh'd; alone, she shed the tear; Then, as if breaking from a cloud, she gave Fresh light, and gilt the prospect of the grave. One day he lighter seem'd, and they forgot The care, the dread, the anguish of their lot; They spoke with cheerfulness, and seem'd to think, Yet said not so — 'Perhaps he will not sink'.
Side 57 - O YE WHO HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF ALP ARSLAN EXALTED TO THE HEAVENS, REPAIR TO MARU, AND YOU WILL BEHOLD IT BURIED IN THE DUST!
Side 46 - That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. 8 And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord ; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Side 150 - ... and not an artist : it is not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and dance ; it is a being who can comfort and counsel him; one who can reason, and reflect, and feel, and judge, and discourse, and discriminate; one who can assist him in his affairs, lighten his...
Side 171 - Lend to thy neighbour in time of his need, And pay thou thy neighbour again in due season. Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him, And thou shalt always find the thing that is necessary for thee.