Platt's Essays, 1권Simpkin, Marshall, 1883 |
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... never rests , which has never attained its ideal , which is never perfect ; as its aim is " for ever and aye progressing . Its belief is , that there is nothing in human affairs that men deem impossible that may not come to pass ...
... never rests , which has never attained its ideal , which is never perfect ; as its aim is " for ever and aye progressing . Its belief is , that there is nothing in human affairs that men deem impossible that may not come to pass ...
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... never buying a piece of goods unnecessarily , more careful management , reducing the expenses , or doing a larger trade at the same expense , profit will take the place of loss , whilst the trade connection is kept intact . It is said ...
... never buying a piece of goods unnecessarily , more careful management , reducing the expenses , or doing a larger trade at the same expense , profit will take the place of loss , whilst the trade connection is kept intact . It is said ...
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... never does all he can ; and the real standard of comparison should be , not what other people do , but what a man could and ought to do . " The young should be taught the importance and value of courtesy of demeanour . How few can say ...
... never does all he can ; and the real standard of comparison should be , not what other people do , but what a man could and ought to do . " The young should be taught the importance and value of courtesy of demeanour . How few can say ...
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... never allowing such an idea as its being impossible to enter their brain , but that all they have to consider is how what they have to do can best be done . It is astonishing how the mass of men find their pons asinorum in every little ...
... never allowing such an idea as its being impossible to enter their brain , but that all they have to consider is how what they have to do can best be done . It is astonishing how the mass of men find their pons asinorum in every little ...
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... never misrepresent or deviate in price ; treat all equitably and alike . To succeed , in these times , it is ... never despairs seldom completely fails . " Faint heart never won fair lady . " Success in life has been compared to a ...
... never misrepresent or deviate in price ; treat all equitably and alike . To succeed , in these times , it is ... never despairs seldom completely fails . " Faint heart never won fair lady . " Success in life has been compared to a ...
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75 페이지 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
184 페이지 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
128 페이지 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain...
472 페이지 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
123 페이지 - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
472 페이지 - ... the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.
162 페이지 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
311 페이지 - Act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
474 페이지 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.