The Hand-book of Standard Or American Phonography

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Andrew J. Graham & Company, 1886 - 441 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 371 - The frost looked forth one still, clear night, And whispered : "Now I shall be out of sight : So through the valley and over the height In silence I'll take my way. I will not go on like that blustering train — The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain — Who make so much bustle and noise in vain ; But I'll be as busy as they.
Pàgina 370 - The character of the true philosopher is to hope all things not impossible, and to believe all things not unreasonable.
Pàgina 373 - If you have great talents, industry will improve them : if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour : nothing is to be obtained without it.
Pàgina 371 - A coat of mail, that it need not fear The downward point of many a spear, That he hung on its margin, far and near, Where a rock could rear its head. He went to the windows of those who slept, And over each pane, like a fairy, crept; Wherever he breathed, wherever he stepped, By the light of the...
Pàgina 370 - Their mutual friendship was so strong that they were ready to die for one another. One of the two (for it is not known which) being condemned to death by the tyrant, .obtained leave to go into his own country, to settle his...
Pàgina 374 - I resolved, when beginning to read law, to make everything I acquired perfectly my own, and never to go to a second thing till I had entirely accomplished the first. Many of my competitors read as much in a day as I read in a week ; but, at the end of twelve months, my knowledge was as fresh as on the day it was acquired, while theirs had glided away from their recollection.
Pàgina 370 - ... them some principle which it never occurred before to try, will surely be the very last to acquiesce in any dispiriting prospects of either the present or future destinies of mankind; while, on the other hand, the boundless views of intellectual and moral as well as material relations which open on him on all hands in the course of these pursuits, the knowledge of the trivial place he occupies in the scale of creation...
Pàgina 372 - Cultivate the physical exclusively, and you have an athlete or a savage , the moral only, and you have an enthusiast or a maniac; the intellectual only, and you have a diseased oddity— it may be a monster. It is only by wisely training all three together that the complete man can be formed.
Pàgina 371 - By the light of the moon were seen Most beautiful things. There were flowers and trees, There were bevies of birds and swarms of bees, There were cities...
Pàgina 378 - The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms aiid most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering...

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