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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... look down on his pride and folly with laughter . " He despiseth the judgment of others , he relieth on his own opinion , and is confounded . " He is puffed up with the vanity of his imagination ; his delight is to hear and to speak of ...
... look down on his pride and folly with laughter . " He despiseth the judgment of others , he relieth on his own opinion , and is confounded . " He is puffed up with the vanity of his imagination ; his delight is to hear and to speak of ...
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... look upon the affairs of mankind in a very narrow and jaundiced light . What are the privileges which we enjoy in these modern days , when the monuments of progress are rising up every- where , but our share in the profits of the labour ...
... look upon the affairs of mankind in a very narrow and jaundiced light . What are the privileges which we enjoy in these modern days , when the monuments of progress are rising up every- where , but our share in the profits of the labour ...
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... Look at a navigator working upon a railway . With pick and spade he breaks the rocky soil , and shovels the broken earth into barrows , to be carted away . Then he lays down the iron rails upon sleepers embedded in the level surface of ...
... Look at a navigator working upon a railway . With pick and spade he breaks the rocky soil , and shovels the broken earth into barrows , to be carted away . Then he lays down the iron rails upon sleepers embedded in the level surface of ...
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... look upon this phrase , The Redeeming of Time , as a proverbial expression ; and understand by it , the using all prudent and honest ways to avoid present danger , by put- ting danger off by delays , and by gaining of Time , as we are ...
... look upon this phrase , The Redeeming of Time , as a proverbial expression ; and understand by it , the using all prudent and honest ways to avoid present danger , by put- ting danger off by delays , and by gaining of Time , as we are ...
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... and what the consequences will most certainly be , whether they improve or throw it away , one would think no other motive would be needful to make them husband it " If we look back upon our past years , BY THE ECONOMY OF TIME . 35.
... and what the consequences will most certainly be , whether they improve or throw it away , one would think no other motive would be needful to make them husband it " If we look back upon our past years , BY THE ECONOMY OF TIME . 35.
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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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 87 - INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.