Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 69
... 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 afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York , it ...
... 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 afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York , it ...
Page 70
... loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural , and mediato- rial and miraculous . Prayer that craves a particu- lar commodity - anything less than all good , is vicious . Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life ...
... loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural , and mediato- rial and miraculous . Prayer that craves a particu- lar commodity - anything less than all good , is vicious . Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life ...
Page 74
... lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea , and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern Fact , the sad self , unrelent- ing , identical , that I fled from . I seek the Vati- can ...
... lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea , and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern Fact , the sad self , unrelent- ing , identical , that I fled from . I seek the Vati- can ...
Page 76
... loses old instincts . What a contrast between the well - clad , reading , writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear ...
... loses old instincts . What a contrast between the well - clad , reading , writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear ...
Page 77
... loses so much support of muscle . He has got a fine Geneva watch , but he has lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun . A Greenwich nautical almanac he has , and so being sure of the informa- tion when he wants it , the man in the ...
... loses so much support of muscle . He has got a fine Geneva watch , but he has lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun . A Greenwich nautical almanac he has , and so being sure of the informa- tion when he wants it , the man in the ...
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