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Author : William Henry Davenport Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315615892
Author : William Henry Davenport Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600017579
Author : William Henry Davenport Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026317023
Author : William Henry Davenport Adams
Publisher : General Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1458937755
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{Section 4THE STEADY AIM. CHAPTER I. EXAMPLES AND ENCOURAGEMENTS FROM THE LIVES OP EMINENT INVENTOKS AND D1SCOVEKERS. Never yet was good accomplish'd Without hand and thought. Barry Cornwall. PROLOGUE. 1. It is fitting that every man, however humble his condition, should set before himself, at the outset of his career, some object to be attained, some desire to be gratified, or some hope to be fulfilled. And it is the design of this volume show, by examples from modern Biography, that if he resolutely adhere to the purpose thus defined, and steadfastly carry out his Steady Aim, his exertions, sooner or later, will be crowned with success. 2. And success?success in life?is equally dear to the philanthropist as to the statesman, to the artist in his studio as to the captain who would bind his brow with ' War's red laurels.' For we would be understood by ' success in life' to mean not only material, but, if we may use the expression, moral success?a success not to be appraised by any worldly standard. Let the student declare that by chapter{Section 52 SUCCESS IN LIFE. success in life he means the acquirement of extensive knowledge. Let the savant protest that it consists in the felicitous investigation of scientific mysteries. Let the poet assert that it is a noble place on the bead-roll of those sublime singers whose music ' vibrates in the memory ' of successive generations. The engineer shall limit his ambition to the perfection of some wonderful mechanism, or the development of one of those inventions which help man to subdue nature. The merchant shall freight his ships with the treasure of far-off lands; and the man of letters be content if he secure a fitting audience for what he has to say. Thus, success in life may be rightly comprehended...
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : West Country (England)
ISBN : OXFORD:555075953
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015071099405
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11044460
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UIUC:30112110058416
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCR:31210012385025
Author : Charles R. Rode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015071097623
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11516767
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : PRNC:32101079672117
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015084434425
Author : Gertrude P. Dyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000570975
Author : Museum and English journal of education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555034847
