The secret of success; or, How to get on in the worldJohn Hogg, 1880 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 22
Página 42
... returned home laden with wealth . But it was not this narra- tive which made Law a great steamship owner and merchant prince , however it may have operated as an incentive to his exertions . It was the firm , manly strain of his ...
... returned home laden with wealth . But it was not this narra- tive which made Law a great steamship owner and merchant prince , however it may have operated as an incentive to his exertions . It was the firm , manly strain of his ...
Página 83
... returned to Melbourne with a selection of goods adapted to its market . It was the epoch of the gold - fever , and his picks and spades were largely in de- mand . With the profits thus realised he made judicious in- vestments , never ...
... returned to Melbourne with a selection of goods adapted to its market . It was the epoch of the gold - fever , and his picks and spades were largely in de- mand . With the profits thus realised he made judicious in- vestments , never ...
Página 86
... returned to their studio in the morning , to find that here an arm had been added and there a leg ; that inharmonious pro- portions had been carefully adjusted ; that woolly skies , harsh and discordant , had been toned and softened ...
... returned to their studio in the morning , to find that here an arm had been added and there a leg ; that inharmonious pro- portions had been carefully adjusted ; that woolly skies , harsh and discordant , had been toned and softened ...
Página 92
... returned to his last . His father procured him employment at St. Austell as a journeyman shoemaker ; and a narrow escape from death having sobered his mind , he began to attend the preaching of the Wesleyan Methodists . Thereafter he ...
... returned to his last . His father procured him employment at St. Austell as a journeyman shoemaker ; and a narrow escape from death having sobered his mind , he began to attend the preaching of the Wesleyan Methodists . Thereafter he ...
Página 96
... returned home weary , but not discouraged . I put my pack on my back , and walked to the town where I now live , and learned a mechanic's trade . The first month I worked after I was twenty - one years of age , I went into the woods ...
... returned home weary , but not discouraged . I put my pack on my back , and walked to the town where I now live , and learned a mechanic's trade . The first month I worked after I was twenty - one years of age , I went into the woods ...
Términos y frases comunes
admirable ambition American Arthur Henry Hallam Astor banker better called career character clerk cultivation devoted duty early eminent energy England example faculties fail father firm fortune friends fur trade genius George George Moore George Stephenson give habit hand happy heart Hippolyte Flandrin honour industry influence intellectual Jacques Cœur knowledge labour live London Lord Lord Brougham Lord Eldon Lord Lytton man's Mantua master Matthew Arnold means ment merchant mind moral morning mother Napoleon nature ness never night painter patience perseverance profit proved punctuality pursuit qualities reader remarkable replied Rothschild says secret self-help soon soul spirit success Sydney Smith tact talent thing Thomas Brassey Thomas Fowell Buxton thought tion toil told trade true truth turn W. H. Smith wasted wise wonder words worth writes young
Pasajes populares
Página 145 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Página 14 - As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains; but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, * A bringer of new things...
Página 345 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Página 246 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order...
Página 66 - 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.
Página 301 - But stately in the main; and, when he ended, I could have laughed myself to scorn to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind. 'God...
Página 102 - Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place.
Página 101 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see everywhere.
Página 125 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
Página 307 - Fool! the Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself; thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of — what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic?