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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... Bodies Scoffern and Lowe's Practical Meteorology Smith's Botany , Structural and Systematic , cloth Sparling's Photographic Art Twisden's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry , cloth On Series and Logarithms , cloth Young's Elements of ...
... Bodies Scoffern and Lowe's Practical Meteorology Smith's Botany , Structural and Systematic , cloth Sparling's Photographic Art Twisden's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry , cloth On Series and Logarithms , cloth Young's Elements of ...
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... body with action , and preserveth the health of both . " The slothful man is a burthen to himself , his hours hang heavy on his head ; he loitereth about , and knoweth not what he would do . " His days pass away like the shadow of a ...
... body with action , and preserveth the health of both . " The slothful man is a burthen to himself , his hours hang heavy on his head ; he loitereth about , and knoweth not what he would do . " His days pass away like the shadow of a ...
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... body existing without necessity for labour . But man , because of the greater perfection of his nature , from which he derives the will to plan and the power to pursue various modes of life , finds it necessary to seek those " Make your ...
... body existing without necessity for labour . But man , because of the greater perfection of his nature , from which he derives the will to plan and the power to pursue various modes of life , finds it necessary to seek those " Make your ...
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... bodies were tortured and tormented with pain and sickness , would you think that ease and health might come too soon ? If a man were in the sea near sinking , can a boat come too soon ? I have heard of an old man , who , being really ...
... bodies were tortured and tormented with pain and sickness , would you think that ease and health might come too soon ? If a man were in the sea near sinking , can a boat come too soon ? I have heard of an old man , who , being really ...
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... bodies , as a little air enclosed in a thin bubble ; how easily is that broken , and where are we ! How many who are now ... body ! And how much more than needs , in pampering , dressing , and adorning it ! Out of the small remainder how ...
... bodies , as a little air enclosed in a thin bubble ; how easily is that broken , and where are we ! How many who are now ... body ! And how much more than needs , in pampering , dressing , and adorning it ! Out of the small remainder how ...
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Página 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.
Página 87 - INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.