Self Culture, Volume 7, Issue 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... kind of knowledge that pays is the best for any young man or woman . We also teach Shorthand , Letter Writing , etc. , BY MAIL . It is at once the most pleasant and inexpensive method of securing a prac- tical business education . Trial ...
... kind of knowledge that pays is the best for any young man or woman . We also teach Shorthand , Letter Writing , etc. , BY MAIL . It is at once the most pleasant and inexpensive method of securing a prac- tical business education . Trial ...
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... kind of police gov- ernment on that city . The first essential condition precedent to municipal reform is an approximation to the English and Continental European way of treating cities . The sphere of local self - government must be ...
... kind of police gov- ernment on that city . The first essential condition precedent to municipal reform is an approximation to the English and Continental European way of treating cities . The sphere of local self - government must be ...
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... on such principles stave off bank- ruptcy ? In accounting for the failure of American municipal government , the kind and quality of rulers generally chosen in most cities should not be lost sight of 4 PROBLEMS OF MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION.
... on such principles stave off bank- ruptcy ? In accounting for the failure of American municipal government , the kind and quality of rulers generally chosen in most cities should not be lost sight of 4 PROBLEMS OF MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION.
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... kind . It is by Francis Fuller on a left - handed writing master : " Though Nature thee of thy right hand be- reft ; -- Right well thou writest with the hand that's left . " The following is by Dr. Donne upon a lame beggar : - " I am ...
... kind . It is by Francis Fuller on a left - handed writing master : " Though Nature thee of thy right hand be- reft ; -- Right well thou writest with the hand that's left . " The following is by Dr. Donne upon a lame beggar : - " I am ...
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... kind in the corrupt Court of Louis XV . She was not the girl to satisfy them . Too proud , too high - spirited , untouched in moral purity , hardly even for the strongest political reasons would she consent to treat Madame du Barry as ...
... kind in the corrupt Court of Louis XV . She was not the girl to satisfy them . Too proud , too high - spirited , untouched in moral purity , hardly even for the strongest political reasons would she consent to treat Madame du Barry as ...
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Page 7 - SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say : But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show'd them there The quarelets of Pearl.
Page 73 - Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind.
Page 45 - I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke. I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain, And pronounced on, the rest of his handwork, — returned him again His creation's approval or censure; I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work: all's love, yet all's law.
Page 9 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Page 10 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Page 24 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 78 - With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 11 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 22 - As this old gentleman, who had been in all the German wars, found very few to listen to his tales of military feats, he formed a sort of alliance with me, and I used invariably to attend him for the pleasure of hearing those communications.