Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 44
... young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart . If the young merchant fails , men say he is ruined . If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges , and is not installed in an office within one year afterward ...
... young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart . If the young merchant fails , men say he is ruined . If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges , and is not installed in an office within one year afterward ...
Page 76
... young , he is very wise , he is altogether ignorant . He hears and feels what you say of the seraphim , and of the tin - peddler . There is no permanent wise man , except in the figment of the stoics . We side with the hero , as we read ...
... young , he is very wise , he is altogether ignorant . He hears and feels what you say of the seraphim , and of the tin - peddler . There is no permanent wise man , except in the figment of the stoics . We side with the hero , as we read ...
Page 171
... young . Infancy , youth , receptive , aspiring , with religious eye looking upward , counts itself nothing , and abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides . But the man and woman of seventy , assume to know all ; throw ...
... young . Infancy , youth , receptive , aspiring , with religious eye looking upward , counts itself nothing , and abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides . But the man and woman of seventy , assume to know all ; throw ...
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