 Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this...  Modern Achievement - Page 181edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | 1907 - 600 pages
...learning that young men need, not instruction about this or that, but a stiffening of the vertebno which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing. — Elbcrt Hnbbard. The Scorpion of Ceylon. A more disagreeable object than a scorpion of Ceylon it... | |
 | 1916 - 762 pages
...book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertabrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...energies; do the thing— 'Carry a message to Garcia'!" In the very first clause of this extract there is a tightening of the ropes of attention. You can fairly... | |
 | 1916 - 714 pages
...book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertabrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...energies; do the thing — 'Carry a message to Garcia'!" In the very first clause of this extract there is a tightening of the ropes of attention. You can fairly... | |
 | Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - 1900 - 718 pages
...book-learning young men ne*\i. nor instruction about this and that, but a stiflening of the vertebree which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act..." General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Gaicias. Xo man, who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were mvded, but has... | |
 | Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - 1898 - 426 pages
...book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...energies : do the thing — " Carry a message to Garcia ! " fi fi General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. No man, who has endeavored to carry... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1899 - 28 pages
...book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man — the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slipshod assistance, foolish... | |
 | 1899 - 726 pages
...book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act..." General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcías. ' ' No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (U.S.). Annual Meeting - 1899 - 246 pages
...booklearning young men need, nor instruction about this or that," so much as, "a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act...promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing required " — and to do it of their own initiative, using their own powers of thought. The student... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1899 - 24 pages
...to a trust, to act promptly, con- A Message centrate their energies : do the thing — To Garcia " Carry a message to Garcia! " General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcías. No man, who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many «§£ hands were needed,... | |
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