Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1A collection of more than seven hundred quotations from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |
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Page 28
... head will swim and grow dizzy , and there opens before you one of the With fingers weary and worn , With eyelids heavy and red , A woman sat , in unwomanly rags , Plying her needle and thread , - Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty ...
... head will swim and grow dizzy , and there opens before you one of the With fingers weary and worn , With eyelids heavy and red , A woman sat , in unwomanly rags , Plying her needle and thread , - Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty ...
Page 33
... head and can not drudge , in like manner wending ; till at length , after infinite effort , the two parties come into actual juxtaposition , and Thirty stands fronting Thirty , each with a gun in his hand . Straightway the word " Fire ...
... head and can not drudge , in like manner wending ; till at length , after infinite effort , the two parties come into actual juxtaposition , and Thirty stands fronting Thirty , each with a gun in his hand . Straightway the word " Fire ...
Page 40
... head factory , for instance , there are endless by - products , from the pigtails which are dried and sold as a delicacy , to the hair of animals made into a powerful , valu- able kind of rope . If Mr. Armour neglected making the hair ...
... head factory , for instance , there are endless by - products , from the pigtails which are dried and sold as a delicacy , to the hair of animals made into a powerful , valu- able kind of rope . If Mr. Armour neglected making the hair ...
Page 44
... head of four - fifths of the human race , and political head of the whole of it , must be granted the possession of execu- tive abilities of the loftiest order . In his large presence the other popes and politicians shrink to midgets ...
... head of four - fifths of the human race , and political head of the whole of it , must be granted the possession of execu- tive abilities of the loftiest order . In his large presence the other popes and politicians shrink to midgets ...
Page 45
... head is bowed . He thinks on men and kings . Yea , when the sick world cries , how can he sleep ? Too many peasants fight , they know Too many homesteadsin black terror weep . The sins of all the war - lords burn his heart . He sees the ...
... head is bowed . He thinks on men and kings . Yea , when the sick world cries , how can he sleep ? Too many peasants fight , they know Too many homesteadsin black terror weep . The sins of all the war - lords burn his heart . He sees the ...
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