Literature for the Business ManGerald Edwin Se Boyar F.S. Crofts & Company, 1925 - 419 pages |
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... Merchant of Venice - Act I , Scene I Taming of the Shrew - Act IV , Scene 3 BEN JONSON The Alchemist - Act I , Scene 3 JOHN EARLE • • A Young Gentleman of the University A Shop - keeper • · JOHN MILTON . • The Freedom of the Press JOHN ...
... Merchant of Venice - Act I , Scene I Taming of the Shrew - Act IV , Scene 3 BEN JONSON The Alchemist - Act I , Scene 3 JOHN EARLE • • A Young Gentleman of the University A Shop - keeper • · JOHN MILTON . • The Freedom of the Press JOHN ...
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... Merchant JOSEPH ADDISON The Royal Exchange A Retired Business Man Advertisements from The Spectator ALEXANDER POPE • Duty of Man LORD CHESTERFIELD • • Letters to His Son . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN • · I Go in Business for Myself . SAMUEL ...
... Merchant JOSEPH ADDISON The Royal Exchange A Retired Business Man Advertisements from The Spectator ALEXANDER POPE • Duty of Man LORD CHESTERFIELD • • Letters to His Son . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN • · I Go in Business for Myself . SAMUEL ...
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... Merchant . MATTHEW ARNOLD 318 · · 319 322 326 327 • 327 328 • 331 · 332 · 339 The Foundation of a Liberal Education . · 340 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Attitude of Business Man to Scientific Education The Value of Scientific Education · 348 349 ...
... Merchant . MATTHEW ARNOLD 318 · · 319 322 326 327 • 327 328 • 331 · 332 · 339 The Foundation of a Liberal Education . · 340 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Attitude of Business Man to Scientific Education The Value of Scientific Education · 348 349 ...
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... Merchant A Maunciple Members of the Guilds Chaucers Wordes Unto Adam , His Owne Scriveyn 393 JOHN LYDGATE London Lackpenny • 392 . 392 • · 394 • 394 THE BALLADS • · 398 Robin Hood and the Butcher · • 399 NOTES · 405 INTRODUCTION THE ...
... Merchant A Maunciple Members of the Guilds Chaucers Wordes Unto Adam , His Owne Scriveyn 393 JOHN LYDGATE London Lackpenny • 392 . 392 • · 394 • 394 THE BALLADS • · 398 Robin Hood and the Butcher · • 399 NOTES · 405 INTRODUCTION THE ...
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... Merchant Adventures in Bruges , where he carried on the business of a mercer . He occupied his leisure moments in translating French books into English . Later he became interested in printing , learned the trade , and set up his press ...
... Merchant Adventures in Bruges , where he carried on the business of a mercer . He occupied his leisure moments in translating French books into English . Later he became interested in printing , learned the trade , and set up his press ...
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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.
Page 218 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device...
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.