Self Culture, Volume 7, Issue 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... young men and women positions of trust and res- ponsibility at good salaries , The 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 ...
... young men and women positions of trust and res- ponsibility at good salaries , The 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 ...
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... young gentleman : - " Sir , can you tell me where young Pandorus lives , That was surnamed here the Prodigal ? He that so much for his silk stockings gives , Till naught is left to buy him shoes withal . Oh ! blame him not to make what ...
... young gentleman : - " Sir , can you tell me where young Pandorus lives , That was surnamed here the Prodigal ? He that so much for his silk stockings gives , Till naught is left to buy him shoes withal . Oh ! blame him not to make what ...
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... young lady's album , wrote these four lines : " An original something , fair maid , you would win me To write - but how shall I begin ? For I fear I have nothing original in me- Excepting original sin . " During the disputes of the ...
... young lady's album , wrote these four lines : " An original something , fair maid , you would win me To write - but how shall I begin ? For I fear I have nothing original in me- Excepting original sin . " During the disputes of the ...
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... young man , who fancies himself clever : " Jackson his own wit sees ; this gives him pride That he sees more than all the world be- side . These lines comparing life to a jour- ney are taken from a collection of ancient and modern ...
... young man , who fancies himself clever : " Jackson his own wit sees ; this gives him pride That he sees more than all the world be- side . These lines comparing life to a jour- ney are taken from a collection of ancient and modern ...
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... young girl ever stepped into a more difficult position than Marie Antoinette of Austria , when at fifteen she became the wife of Louis , Dauphin of France . Few young girls of her disposition and bring- ing up could have behaved better ...
... young girl ever stepped into a more difficult position than Marie Antoinette of Austria , when at fifteen she became the wife of Louis , Dauphin of France . Few young girls of her disposition and bring- ing up could have behaved better ...
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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.