Mentality and FreedomNation Press, Incorporated, 1917 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... youth , what it takes months to learn in one's early days it may take years to acquire in after life , and if the mind is not a well - disciplined one , the task to a man in mature life , or to one living in his declining years ...
... youth , what it takes months to learn in one's early days it may take years to acquire in after life , and if the mind is not a well - disciplined one , the task to a man in mature life , or to one living in his declining years ...
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... youth he felt his great life's task to be the conquest and humiliation of Rome . He was the greatest military tactician of all time , a master of military science , and in the use of strategy and ambuscades , he surpassed not only all ...
... youth he felt his great life's task to be the conquest and humiliation of Rome . He was the greatest military tactician of all time , a master of military science , and in the use of strategy and ambuscades , he surpassed not only all ...
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... youth , he gave many exhibitions of profligacy ; when Deputy Governor of Italy in 47 B. C. , during the time Cæsar was in Africa , he " seized the opportunity of indulging in the most extravagant excesses . " After the murder of Cæsar ...
... youth , he gave many exhibitions of profligacy ; when Deputy Governor of Italy in 47 B. C. , during the time Cæsar was in Africa , he " seized the opportunity of indulging in the most extravagant excesses . " After the murder of Cæsar ...
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... youth he was apprenticed to a barber , and it has been well said that " Fate was in a jesting mood when she de- creed that the chief actor in that remarkable social drama , the Industrial Revolution , should be a half- penny barber ...
... youth he was apprenticed to a barber , and it has been well said that " Fate was in a jesting mood when she de- creed that the chief actor in that remarkable social drama , the Industrial Revolution , should be a half- penny barber ...
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... youth he was called " Useless Grant " by his mother ; he re- signed his commission in the army in 1854 , his repu- tation in the service having suffered from allega- tions of intemperate drinking . We are told that a short time before ...
... youth he was called " Useless Grant " by his mother ; he re- signed his commission in the army in 1854 , his repu- tation in the service having suffered from allega- tions of intemperate drinking . We are told that a short time before ...
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Стр. 216 - THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Стр. 107 - Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game at chess. Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces ; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check? Do you not think that we should look with...
Стр. 217 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Стр. 162 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, "Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
Стр. 89 - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Стр. 107 - Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game 192 infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess.
Стр. 134 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Стр. 107 - The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
Стр. 11 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
Стр. 133 - Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.' CHAP. XVI. The Master said, The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!' CHAP. XVII. The Master said, 'Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;— this is knowledge.