Literature for the Business ManGerald Edwin Se Boyar F.S. Crofts & Company, 1925 - 419 pages |
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... society . Its art is the art of social life , and its end is fitness for the world . It neither confines its views to the particular professions on one hand , nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other . But a university ...
... society . Its art is the art of social life , and its end is fitness for the world . It neither confines its views to the particular professions on one hand , nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other . But a university ...
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... society , at cultivating the public mind , at purifying the national taste , at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration , at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age , at ...
... society , at cultivating the public mind , at purifying the national taste , at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration , at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age , at ...
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... society of that period . It brings back the glory of Greece and grandeur of Rome ; it revives the spirit of the Middle Ages ; and it reveals the trend of modern thought . All events and all types of humanity are its subjects . The ...
... society of that period . It brings back the glory of Greece and grandeur of Rome ; it revives the spirit of the Middle Ages ; and it reveals the trend of modern thought . All events and all types of humanity are its subjects . The ...
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... society of every age . The business man who has read intelligently Don Quixote , Henry IV , and Pickwick Papers has , there- fore , a means to guide him in his dealings with persons of like character . He has seen human nature through ...
... society of every age . The business man who has read intelligently Don Quixote , Henry IV , and Pickwick Papers has , there- fore , a means to guide him in his dealings with persons of like character . He has seen human nature through ...
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... society of his day . These traits Jonson satirized in comedies which were extremely realistic . Volpone or The Fox analyzes the typical miser ; Epicoene or Silent Woman tells how Morose , who cannot bear the least noise , is tricked by ...
... society of his day . These traits Jonson satirized in comedies which were extremely realistic . Volpone or The Fox analyzes the typical miser ; Epicoene or Silent Woman tells how Morose , who cannot bear the least noise , is tricked by ...
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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.