Elbert Hubbard's Scrap BookArcadia Publishing, 1998 M12 19 - 244 páginas A vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century essayist Elbert Hubbard. Here the words of history's and literature's greats from William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Marcus Aurelius, Charlotte Brontï¿1/2, and Dante to Charles Dickens, Thomas Jefferson, Pythagoras, and Oscar Wilde meet. Originally published posthumously as a tribute to Hubbard, this compilation includes the musings of George Washington on jealousy, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on love, Plato on man, and hundreds of others. The universe's most momentous questions about life and success, as well as love, humanity, nature, and war, unfold in memorable passages. Indexes by author, topic, and poem serve for easy reference. |
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... Lamia drew from a fold of his toga a scroll containing the Treatise upon Nature , extending himself upon the ground , and began to read . But the warning cries of a slave necessitated his It is not raining rain for me , It's raining ...
... Lamia again and again . " Gods ! what a treat it is to me to see you once more ! But , alas , you call up memo- ries of those long - vanished days when I was Procurator of Judæa , in the prov- ince of Syria . Why , it must be thirty ...
... Lamia , " I am per- suaded that you acted towards the Samaritans according to the rectitude of your character , and solely in the interests of Rome . But were you not perchance on that occasion a trifle too much influenced by that ...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ... Elbert Hubbard Vista completa - 1923 |
Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ... Elbert Hubbard Vista completa - 1923 |
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