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It has been the custom in New England , from the earliest time , to bring up one
son of a prosperous family to a profession , and the one selected was usually the
boy who seemed least capable of earning a livelihood by manual labor .
It has been the custom in New England , from the earliest time , to bring up one
son of a prosperous family to a profession , and the one selected was usually the
boy who seemed least capable of earning a livelihood by manual labor .
Сторінка 63
From the day when he took his first Latin lesson to that on which he entered
college was thirteen months . He could translate Cicero ' s orations with some
ease , and make out with difficulty and labor the easiest sentences of the Greek
Reader ...
From the day when he took his first Latin lesson to that on which he entered
college was thirteen months . He could translate Cicero ' s orations with some
ease , and make out with difficulty and labor the easiest sentences of the Greek
Reader ...
Сторінка 69
Pinched by poverty , as he tells us , till his very bones ached , eking out his
income by a kind of labor that he always loathed ( copying deeds ) , his shoes
letting in , not water merely , but “ pebbles and stones , ” — father , brother , and
himself ...
Pinched by poverty , as he tells us , till his very bones ached , eking out his
income by a kind of labor that he always loathed ( copying deeds ) , his shoes
letting in , not water merely , but “ pebbles and stones , ” — father , brother , and
himself ...
Сторінка 87
I think , " said he , “ it would cost us precisely what we can least afford , that is ,
great labor . . . . . Of manual labor no nation has more than a certain quantity ; nor
can it be increased at will . . . . . A most important question for every nation , as
well ...
I think , " said he , “ it would cost us precisely what we can least afford , that is ,
great labor . . . . . Of manual labor no nation has more than a certain quantity ; nor
can it be increased at will . . . . . A most important question for every nation , as
well ...
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I see the visayes of those who by stealth and at midnight labor in this work of hell
, foul and dark , as may become the artificers of such instruments of misery and
torture . Let that spot be purified , or let it cease to be of New England . ” — Works
...
I see the visayes of those who by stealth and at midnight labor in this work of hell
, foul and dark , as may become the artificers of such instruments of misery and
torture . Let that spot be purified , or let it cease to be of New England . ” — Works
...
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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