Business English, Its Principles and PracticeAmerican Book Company, 1916 - 376 pages |
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Page 166 - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may...
Page 76 - Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business. So as they have no freedom; neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
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Page 166 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement. and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom...
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Page 362 - ... heretofore overlooked the fact that the next day was the Sabbath, and that any self-respecting Christian would wish his shoes shined before he repaired to the sanctuary. Perhaps it was merely good luck that this boy secured twice the business of the other, but I have seen too many of such experiences to think of them as accidental.
Page 301 - Junior is smaller and lighter than the Standard Remington models — weighs only 17 pounds. It is simpler. You can quickly learn to operate it. No lessons needed. It has all the Remington essentials, standard keyboard, standard type, and writes letters of standard size — the kind with the hundred-dollar look.
Page 76 - But this is excellently expressed, that it is in imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Page 62 - Take luncheon with me" rather than "Take lunch". Luxurious — luxuriant The first of these words means pertaining to luxury, the second, rank in growth. We speak of a luxurious couch, a luxuriant garden. Mad. In England this word means crazy, not angry. Majority — plurality. In US politics, a candidate for office does not have a "majority" unless he has more than half of all the votes cast, and his majority is his excess over all others; his "plurality" is his excess over the next highest.
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