Lectures for the PeopleG. G. Evans, 1859 - 414 páginas |
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... Costs ......... 183 XI . Saturday Night ......... 206 XIL - There's nae Luck about the House ............ 225 XIII . - The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions ................... 244 XIV . Poor Richard's Almanac ........ XV ...
... Costs ......... 183 XI . Saturday Night ......... 206 XIL - There's nae Luck about the House ............ 225 XIII . - The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions ................... 244 XIV . Poor Richard's Almanac ........ XV ...
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... Costs . " Of this last , as many as 45,000 copies have been sold . It may be enquired , What have been the results of this Lec- turing ? As many as from 2000 to 3000 working persons have been induced to spend their Sunday afternoons ...
... Costs . " Of this last , as many as 45,000 copies have been sold . It may be enquired , What have been the results of this Lec- turing ? As many as from 2000 to 3000 working persons have been induced to spend their Sunday afternoons ...
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... cost a trifle more than the dirty pest - houses , the living tombs , of the dark and narrow courts . The " penny wise and pound foolish " principle is often illustrated by the system on which many people act in almost all their ...
... cost a trifle more than the dirty pest - houses , the living tombs , of the dark and narrow courts . The " penny wise and pound foolish " principle is often illustrated by the system on which many people act in almost all their ...
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... cost him much self - denial and much . care . " Penny wise " he certainly has been - adding by little and little to his store ; and now , what is he to do with it ? A hundred schemes present themselves , all very plausible - all ...
... cost him much self - denial and much . care . " Penny wise " he certainly has been - adding by little and little to his store ; and now , what is he to do with it ? A hundred schemes present themselves , all very plausible - all ...
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... cost , would be a dead and unutterable loss , a shocking bad bargain for any man , a most fla- grant case of " penny wise and pound foolish . " Yes , that's what every body says - every body , excepting perhaps an infidel , whose ...
... cost , would be a dead and unutterable loss , a shocking bad bargain for any man , a most fla- grant case of " penny wise and pound foolish . " Yes , that's what every body says - every body , excepting perhaps an infidel , whose ...
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amongst amusements believe better bran care of number certainly character cholera Christ cleanliness comfort conscience costs debt devil's meal dirty disgraceful drink evil extravagance fact Father feel filthy fool forgive friendship give God's godliness Golden Rule habits heart hell honest honor HUGH STOWELL BROWN human idle industry intemperance irreligion keep labor LECTURE live Liverpool luck man's means mind ministers of religion miserable moral never ourselves penny wisdom penny wise perhaps persons poor Poor Richard's Almanac pound foolish pray prayer prodigal proverb public-house religion Saturday night scarcely sense shame shillings silver rules sins soul speak street literature streets Sunday suppose teach tell the truth temptation tempted there's thief thieves things Thou shalt thousand tion trade wages week wise and pound wish word wretched wrong young
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Página 220 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 375 - For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corner ; And he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night...
Página 375 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Página 281 - Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Página 174 - They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick : I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Página 71 - But the Father said to his servants. Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found And they began to be merry.
Página 247 - For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Página 127 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Página 220 - How His first followers and servants sped, The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.
Página 141 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.