A reader for the higher grades of schoolsSilver, Burdett, 1893 - Conduct of life |
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Common terms and phrases
Abraham Lincoln Amos Lawrence became become better Bible book of Proverbs Boston boyhood brother called career character chirography Christian citizen command Crystal Palace Daniel Webster drink duty Elihu Burritt enterprise expense-book fact faith fame farm father friends Garfield Gideon Lee give habit heart highest honest honor Hugh Miller human hundred idea industry inspiration Joseph Paxton keep labor late latter Lincoln lived manhood Mary Lyon ment mental merchant mind moral mother never noble observation opportunity patriotism poor possess poverty practice promise proved purpose reader recreation religion remarkable replied rich Robert Bloomfield Samuel Drew says slavery soul spirit success tact talents teacher things thought thousand dollars tion true twenty virtue worth wrote York City young youth
Popular passages
Page 348 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 411 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 197 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 281 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will; and Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.
Page 441 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Page 285 - Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 87 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 319 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 251 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 322 - Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.