Literature for the Business ManGerald Edwin Se Boyar F.S. Crofts & Company, 1925 - 419 pages |
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... master any subject with facility . It shows him how to throw himself into their state of mind , how to bring before them his own , how to influence them , how to come to an understanding with them , how to bear with them . He is at home ...
... master any subject with facility . It shows him how to throw himself into their state of mind , how to bring before them his own , how to influence them , how to come to an understanding with them , how to bear with them . He is at home ...
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... his business dealings . A study of literature will also give the business man a command of language which no other study can bestow . Constant communion with the masters of English helps him to xxii LITERATURE FOR THE BUSINESS MAN.
... his business dealings . A study of literature will also give the business man a command of language which no other study can bestow . Constant communion with the masters of English helps him to xxii LITERATURE FOR THE BUSINESS MAN.
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... masters of English are at his elbow , ready to train him to think and to write . He has merely to go to the corner bookstore and make them his own . " Furthermore , literature gives the business man a wider outlook . It aids him to see ...
... masters of English are at his elbow , ready to train him to think and to write . He has merely to go to the corner bookstore and make them his own . " Furthermore , literature gives the business man a wider outlook . It aids him to see ...
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... master , a great timber man , a great collier , a great corn - master , a great lead - man and so of iron , and a number of the like points of husbandry : so as the earth seemed a sea to him , in respect of the per- petual importation ...
... master , a great timber man , a great collier , a great corn - master , a great lead - man and so of iron , and a number of the like points of husbandry : so as the earth seemed a sea to him , in respect of the per- petual importation ...
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... master of his own money ; not that I altogether mislike banks , but they will hardly be brooked , in regard of certain suspicions . Let the state be answered some small matter for the license , and the rest left to the lender ; for if ...
... master of his own money ; not that I altogether mislike banks , but they will hardly be brooked , in regard of certain suspicions . Let the state be answered some small matter for the license , and the rest left to the lender ; for if ...
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Page 286 - I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Page 286 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
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Page 213 - Bnttress'd from moonlight, stands he, and implores All saints to give him sight of Madeline, But for one moment in the tedious hours, That he might gaze and worship all unseen; Perchance speak, kneel, touch, kiss — in sooth such things have been.
Page 289 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 312 - FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat. The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe...
Page 224 - She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around, At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears — Down the wide stairs a- darkling way they found. — In all the house was heard no human sound.
Page 287 - On the occasion corresponding to this, four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war, All dreaded it, all sought to avert it, While the inaugural address...
Page 312 - No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.
Page 46 - Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 'tis kept is lighter than vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise, "all that cometh is vanity.