Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-culture and Noble AchievementSuccess Company, 1897 - 478 pages |
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Page 13
... night to mend . See ! the first boat has reached the sloop . Oh ! they are going to burn her . Where is that drum ? I've a great mind to go down and beat it . We could hide behind the sand- hills and bushes . " As flames began to rise ...
... night to mend . See ! the first boat has reached the sloop . Oh ! they are going to burn her . Where is that drum ? I've a great mind to go down and beat it . We could hide behind the sand- hills and bushes . " As flames began to rise ...
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... night , aid- ing the men in digging trenches . When Pyrrhus attacked the city next day , his repulse was so emphatic that he withdrew from Laconia . Charles V. of Spain passed through Thuringia in 1547 , on his return to Swabia after ...
... night , aid- ing the men in digging trenches . When Pyrrhus attacked the city next day , his repulse was so emphatic that he withdrew from Laconia . Charles V. of Spain passed through Thuringia in 1547 , on his return to Swabia after ...
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... night . When the time came to serve the wine , the head - waiter went first to Grant . Without a word the general quietly turned down all the glasses at his plate . This movement was a great surprise to the Texans , but they were equal ...
... night . When the time came to serve the wine , the head - waiter went first to Grant . Without a word the general quietly turned down all the glasses at his plate . This movement was a great surprise to the Texans , but they were equal ...
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... night without covering or lights to warn people of danger . Late at night four men stumbled in , and lay some time before their sit- uation was known in the town . No one dared go to the aid of the men , then unconscious from breathing ...
... night without covering or lights to warn people of danger . Late at night four men stumbled in , and lay some time before their sit- uation was known in the town . No one dared go to the aid of the men , then unconscious from breathing ...
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... nights without food , returned a verdict of " Not guilty . " The recorder fined them forty marks apiece for their independence . What cared Christ for the jeers of the crowd ? The palsied hand moved , the blind saw , the leper was made ...
... nights without food , returned a verdict of " Not guilty . " The recorder fined them forty marks apiece for their independence . What cared Christ for the jeers of the crowd ? The palsied hand moved , the blind saw , the leper was made ...
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Page 9 - God, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Page 232 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 4 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 387 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 263 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 9 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 211 - The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence that he conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved from his superiority.
Page 66 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page 212 - Upon the whole, there was in this man something that could create, subvert, or reform ; an understanding, a spirit, and an eloquence, to summon mankind to society, or to break the bonds of slavery asunder, and to rule the wilderness of free minds with unbounded authority ; something that could establish or overwhelm empire, and strike a blow in the world that should resound through the universe.
Page 121 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.