Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, with Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers |
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... humanity and reform . PROF . J. NELSON HUMPHREY , M.A. , Of the Wisconsin State Normal School , Whitewater . Graduated at Milton College , 1879. A successful teacher , and author of a popular text book . LADY HENRY SOMERSET of London ...
... humanity and reform . PROF . J. NELSON HUMPHREY , M.A. , Of the Wisconsin State Normal School , Whitewater . Graduated at Milton College , 1879. A successful teacher , and author of a popular text book . LADY HENRY SOMERSET of London ...
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... human experience and is made up of clippings from personal life . It is an attempt to put flesh and blood into black and white , and to coin heart - throbs into sentences . In this way the personal element comes well to the front and ...
... human experience and is made up of clippings from personal life . It is an attempt to put flesh and blood into black and white , and to coin heart - throbs into sentences . In this way the personal element comes well to the front and ...
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... human pulse and the personal warmth of its author , the more , in a word , it continues to be personal even after it has been cast into the form of printer's ink , the more it denotes as a book . There are books that are statuesque ...
... human pulse and the personal warmth of its author , the more , in a word , it continues to be personal even after it has been cast into the form of printer's ink , the more it denotes as a book . There are books that are statuesque ...
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... human reproductions . Men live upon great souls that are and have been . Isolation is personal starvation . The power of a great soul over a smaller one is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in miniature . We mean by that only , that its ...
... human reproductions . Men live upon great souls that are and have been . Isolation is personal starvation . The power of a great soul over a smaller one is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in miniature . We mean by that only , that its ...
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... human race . It is not a curse , but a benediction . It is not a mark of degradation , or of servitude , but an insignia of royalty . To work is god- like . " My Father worketh hitherto , " said Christ ; and all the universe bears ...
... human race . It is not a curse , but a benediction . It is not a mark of degradation , or of servitude , but an insignia of royalty . To work is god- like . " My Father worketh hitherto , " said Christ ; and all the universe bears ...
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