Captains of Industry ...: A Book for Young Americans, by James PartonHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 |
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Sayfa 33 - I am also satisfied there is an order of geniusses 'above that obligation, and therefore exempted from it, nobody can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him. Cooperating with nature in her ordinary economy we should dispose of and employ the geniusses of men according to their several orders...
Sayfa 317 - ... taught school in the winter and worked on the farm in the summer; after becoming of legal age, by teaching, working, and tutoring...
Sayfa 53 - Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction ; careful as a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance of order and discipline ; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles ; habituated to the hunting life ; guarded by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country against losing time in the description of objects already possessed...
Sayfa 55 - The best authenticated accounts informed us, that we were to pass through a country possessed by numerous, powerful and warlike nations of savages, of gigantic stature, fierce, treacherous and cruel ; and particularly hostile to white men.
Sayfa 300 - How such a black-hearted misanthrope as Bryant," he writes, " should possess an imagination teeming with beautiful poetical images astonishes me ; one would as soon expect to extract drops of honey from the fangs of a rattlesnake." This means that Mr. Bryant, as editor of a Democratic newspaper, had opposed and denounced the United States Bank, and in his obituary notice of its president, Nicholas Biddle, had expressed the opinion that if justice had been done him, he would not have spent his last...
Sayfa 357 - The cripples and distorted forms might be numbered by hundreds, perhaps by thousands. A friend of mine collected a vast number together for me ; the sight was most piteous, the deformities incredible. They seemed to me, such were their crooked shapes, like a mass of crooked alphabets.
Sayfa 52 - Missouri to its source, to cross the highlands and follow the best water communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean. Congress approved the proposition, and voted a sum of money for carrying it into execution. Captain Lewis, who had...
Sayfa 58 - Never did a similar event excite more joy through the United States. The humblest of its citizens had taken a lively interest in the issue of this journey, and looked forward with impatience for the information it would furnish.
Sayfa 46 - My dear wife, if it be the will of God, I hope to see your pleasant face again ; but if God in his holy and sovereign providence...
Sayfa 346 - The railing was crowded with halfnaked women, struggling together for the front situations with the most boisterous violence, and begging with the utmost vociferation. She felt as if she was going into a den of wild beasts; and she well recollects quite shuddering when the door closed upon her, and she was locked in, with such a herd of novel and desperate companions.