Life doubled by the economy of time. By the author of “How a Penny became a Thousand Pounds” [Robert Kemp-Philp]. |
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... persons especially require to qualify them for their particnlar duties in active life . · Baker Banker's Clerk - Beekeeper Butler Carver and Gilder Chemist & Druggist s . d . - s . d . 10 Dressmaker & Milliner 1 0 s . d . Miller - 1 0 ...
... persons especially require to qualify them for their particnlar duties in active life . · Baker Banker's Clerk - Beekeeper Butler Carver and Gilder Chemist & Druggist s . d . - s . d . 10 Dressmaker & Milliner 1 0 s . d . Miller - 1 0 ...
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... persons , and a theory con- structed by myself , after much reflection thereon . I venture to hope that the few hours required for the perusal of " Life Doubled by the Economy of Time , " will be found to be one of the most fruitful ...
... persons , and a theory con- structed by myself , after much reflection thereon . I venture to hope that the few hours required for the perusal of " Life Doubled by the Economy of Time , " will be found to be one of the most fruitful ...
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... , he sings a joyful song , as he flies to and from his nest , bearing welcome bits of food to his unfledged young . The husbandman is as early as the bird ; " Neither is this any encouragement to a wicked person 10 LIFE DOUBLED.
... , he sings a joyful song , as he flies to and from his nest , bearing welcome bits of food to his unfledged young . The husbandman is as early as the bird ; " Neither is this any encouragement to a wicked person 10 LIFE DOUBLED.
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Robert Kemp PHILP. " Neither is this any encouragement to a wicked person to lose the present Time because it may be redeemed again after a sort ; for they that thus redeem it must pay full dear for it . " soon the smack of the whip ...
Robert Kemp PHILP. " Neither is this any encouragement to a wicked person to lose the present Time because it may be redeemed again after a sort ; for they that thus redeem it must pay full dear for it . " soon the smack of the whip ...
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... person moving in the vast throng that push forward through the great thoroughfares , has an object or occupation for the day — something that must be done before that sun , which has called so many from their slumber , sinks again below ...
... person moving in the vast throng that push forward through the great thoroughfares , has an object or occupation for the day — something that must be done before that sun , which has called so many from their slumber , sinks again below ...
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Page 66 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Page 87 - INDUSTRY Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Page 19 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 66 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed : Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 86 - In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking; while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.
Page 86 - I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping ; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
Page 87 - Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. MODERATION Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Page 91 - ... satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...
Page 97 - 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 point.
Page 78 - An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.