Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and ConductTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 430 páginas |
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accustomed acquired action afterwards amidst amongst application artist became become British Buxton called career CHAP character courage cultivated Daylesford determined difficulties diligent DUKE OF WELLINGTON duty eminent employed enabled energetic energy England English engraving father Flaxman Foley fortune genius Granville Sharp habit hand Hanway honest honor Hugh Miller illustration indefatigable India industry JAMES SHARPLES JEDEDIAH STRUTT John John Flaxman JONAS HANWAY knowledge labor learned living London Lord LORD ELDON LORD LANGDALE Lord Mansfield Lord Tenterden mainly man's master means mechanical mind moral negro never noble observed painting peerages perseverance person Phipps poor possessed practical profession proved purpose pursuit reading remarkable Richard Arkwright Richard Foley SAMUEL DREW says self-culture shilling ship slave society spirit success things thought tion took trade Wellington whilst William young youth СНАР
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Página 328 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Página 277 - Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim ; And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait For wealth, or honours, or for worldly state ; Whom they must follow ; on whose head must fall, Like showers of manna, if they come at all...
Página 421 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Página 21 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 398 - And to this habit (after my character of integrity) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language: and yet I generally carried my points.
Página 325 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Página 339 - And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, — that we manufacture everything there except men...
Página 384 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 413 - Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh the truth in his heart.
Página 396 - The crown and glory of life is Character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general goodwill; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society.