Platt's Essays, Volumen1Simpkin, Marshall, 1883 |
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... value of capital , of the middle class ; by what means the individual or the nation has obtained a supremacy , and how the same is to be retained . The people are not happy - fail instead of succeeding BUSINESS PAGE BUSINESS.
... value of capital , of the middle class ; by what means the individual or the nation has obtained a supremacy , and how the same is to be retained . The people are not happy - fail instead of succeeding BUSINESS PAGE BUSINESS.
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... capital will lose his money and reputation . To commercial men knowledge is power . The men who read and reflect must be better informed , and more fitted to climb upwards , as chances offer , than their competitors or fellow - workers ...
... capital will lose his money and reputation . To commercial men knowledge is power . The men who read and reflect must be better informed , and more fitted to climb upwards , as chances offer , than their competitors or fellow - workers ...
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... capital , as between the penniless schemer , who obtains the use of capital by false pretences , and the upright trader , who never contracts greater liabilities than his estate will liquidate , there lie all gradations . By insensible ...
... capital , as between the penniless schemer , who obtains the use of capital by false pretences , and the upright trader , who never contracts greater liabilities than his estate will liquidate , there lie all gradations . By insensible ...
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... capital of strength . We should , as thoroughly as we are able , be self - helpful and self - reliant , and be rewarded by getting and keeping that most precious boon - good health . In our days , if not of old , the race " is to the ...
... capital of strength . We should , as thoroughly as we are able , be self - helpful and self - reliant , and be rewarded by getting and keeping that most precious boon - good health . In our days , if not of old , the race " is to the ...
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... capital of vitality which is given us this is proved by those cases of human families , themselves by no means perfect , which by care have conserved and increased their vitality ; whilst others , with splendid organisms , by trying to ...
... capital of vitality which is given us this is proved by those cases of human families , themselves by no means perfect , which by care have conserved and increased their vitality ; whilst others , with splendid organisms , by trying to ...
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Página 75 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Página 184 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Página 128 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain...
Página 472 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Página 123 - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Página 472 - ... the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.
Página 162 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Página 311 - Act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
Página 474 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.