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the royal path of life or aims and aids to success and happiness
- Author: thomas l haines
- Genre: Conduct of life
The theme of this book is obviously world-old. And it presents the thoughts and ideas that are never out of date, being both so old and present-day. Success and happiness, striving of people for the better, values of life – the author shows us, how little has changed for the ages. The book was published in 1877, since when we can add this experience of the past to our own.
From a College Window
- Author: Benson Arthur Christopher
- Genre: Conduct of life
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m. BOOKS. The one room in my College which I always enter with a certain sense of desolation and sadness is the College library. There used to be a story in my days at Cambridge of a book- collecting Don who was fond of discoursing in public of the various crosses he had to bear. He was lamenting one day in Hall the unwieldy size of his library. " I really don't know what to do with my books," he said, and looked round for sympathy. " Why not read them ? " said a brisk and caustic Fellow opposite. It may be thought that I am in need of the same advice, but it is not the case. There are, indeed, many books in our library; but most of them, as D. G. Rossetti used to say in his childhood of his father's learned volumes, are " no good for reading." The books of the College 44 library are delightful, indeed, to look at; rows upon rows of big irregular volumes, with tarnished tooling and faded gilding on the sun- scorched backs. What are they ?old editions of classics, old volumes of controversial divinity, folios of the Fathers, topographical treatises, -cumbrous philosophers, pamphlets from which, like dry ashes, the heat of the fire that warmed them once has fled. Take one down: it is an agreeable sight enough; there is a gentle scent of antiquity; the bumpy page crackles faintly; the big irregular print meets the eye with a pleasant and leisurely mellowness. But what do they tell one ? Very little, alas ! that one need know, very much which it would be a positive mistake to believe. That is the worst of eruditionthat the next scholar sucks the few drops of honey that you have accumulated, sets right your blunders, and you are superseded. You have handed on the torch, perhaps, and even trimmed it. Your errors, your patient explanations, were a necessary step in the progres...
the peace of europe the fruits of solitude and other writings
- Author: Penn William
- Genre: Conduct of life
William Penn, Quaker pamphleteer and founder of Pennsylvania, was imprisoned for publishing his profoundly religious egalitarian thoughts. This unique collection of his essays attests to Penn's hope for the reign of religious freedom and the peaceful resolution of international disputes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
- Author: Watson, Paul Barron, 1861-1948
- Genre: Early works to 1800
"List of the chief works consulted": p. [309]-323
On Something
- Author: Belloc Hilaire
- Genre: Conduct of life
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High-ways and by-ways; or, Tales of the road-side, picked up in the French provinces 3
- Author: Grattan, Thomas Colley, 1792-1864
- Genre: Conduct of life
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High-ways and by-ways; or, Tales of the road-side, picked up in the French provinces 1
- Author: Grattan, Thomas Colley, 1792-1864
- Genre: Conduct of life
Spec. Coll. copies: quarter brown tape and blue cloth over boards
the immigrant invasion
- Author: frank julian warne
- Genre: Conduct of life
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE INVASION OF SLAVS AND ITALIANS If we had taken a place by the side of " The Man at the Gate " in the port of New York early in the decade between 1880 and 1890 we would have witnessed the beginning of a change in the racial composition of our immigration that to-day has become of far-reaching significance. We would have seen it transforming from northwestern European nationalities of Teutonic and Celtic stock to those from eastern and southern Europe of Slavonic, Lettic, Italic, Finnic, and Chaldean descentfrom the peoples of Germany, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, and the Scandinavian countries to those from Russia, Austria, Hungary, and Italy. While as observers we would likely have recognised the change because of the widely varying racial characteristics of the two distinct groups, we could not have even conjectured its growth to its huge volume of to-day or foretold its present significance. If we could combine the imaginative faculty and descriptive ability of Conan Doyle with the clarifying perception of H. G. Wells, we might be able to word-picture its characteristics and graphically to outline the full meaning of it all. Lacking these, we canbut record and comment upon the facts. This we are able to do by means of the census statistics of our foreign-born population. Take a sheet of blank paper the size of this printed page and draw upon it in ink seven perpendicular lines half an inch apart. Assume each line to represent a decade from 1850 to 1910, both inclusive. Begin with 1850 because that is the first year for which there is a census enumeration of our foreign-born population. In the column to the left of the first line write in ink the names of the more important countries or groups of countries t that through immigration contribute...
From a college window
- Author: Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925
- Genre: Conduct of life
The point of view.--On growing older.--Books.--Sociabilities.--Conversation.--Beauty.--Art.--Egotism.--Education.--Authorship.--The criticism of others.--Priests.--Ambition.--The simple life.--Games.--Spiritualism.--Habits.--Religion
The secret marriage, or, Contrasts in life 1
- Author: Williams, F., Miss
- Genre: Conduct of life
Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction