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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 .
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He could translate Cicero's orations with some ease , and make out with difficulty and labor the easiest sentences of the Greek Reader , and that was the whole of what was called his “ preparation " for college .
He could translate Cicero's orations with some ease , and make out with difficulty and labor the easiest sentences of the Greek Reader , and that was the whole of what was called his “ preparation " for college .
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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 ...
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 ...
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“ 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 .
“ 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 .
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I see the visages 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 ...
I see the visages 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 ...
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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