Success and How to Attain ItAndrew Carnegie Ever want to know the secrets of how the successful became the successful? Gathered together in "Success and How to Attain It" are the thoughts of some of America's preeminent 19th century thinkers, who, at the instigation of General Daniel Butterfield, came together for a series of lectures at Union College from 1892 to 1895. |
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... to the character of the lectures themselves , they were ... Day he stood up with those who sang the " Song to Old Union , ' looked lovingly over the great throng as it poured 1 forth its feeling in the rich melodies of Ludlow's INTRODUCTION .
... to the character of the lectures themselves , they were ... Day he stood up with those who sang the " Song to Old Union , ' looked lovingly over the great throng as it poured 1 forth its feeling in the rich melodies of Ludlow's INTRODUCTION .
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Andrew Carnegie. penses of educating pupils to less than one - half the cost at the Woolwich Military Academy in England ; had the officer of the day daily to dine with him , enabling himself thereby to learn all that was transpiring in ...
Andrew Carnegie. penses of educating pupils to less than one - half the cost at the Woolwich Military Academy in England ; had the officer of the day daily to dine with him , enabling himself thereby to learn all that was transpiring in ...
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... of those principles of devotion to duty , honor , integrity , pa- triotism , and eminent fitness for the work in hand , which were so prominently characteristic of this great man . The Academy of to - day is merely the development of that ...
... of those principles of devotion to duty , honor , integrity , pa- triotism , and eminent fitness for the work in hand , which were so prominently characteristic of this great man . The Academy of to - day is merely the development of that ...
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Andrew Carnegie. larger field of knowledge . A closer investigation will show that ... to be the outcome of the matured judgment of the Academic Board ( which ... day in which he shall have to prepare himself for recitation . These will ...
Andrew Carnegie. larger field of knowledge . A closer investigation will show that ... to be the outcome of the matured judgment of the Academic Board ( which ... day in which he shall have to prepare himself for recitation . These will ...
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... taken advantage of by the cadets , of making known the difficulties that they have not been able to master in the lesson of the day . In such cases the instructor will show whether he is pro- ficient in the application of his art . If he be ...
... taken advantage of by the cadets , of making known the difficulties that they have not been able to master in the lesson of the day . In such cases the instructor will show whether he is pro- ficient in the application of his art . If he be ...
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Page 42 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say : — " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths :" for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 158 - Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Page 186 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 80 - There are under the Constitution three kinds of military jurisdiction: one to be exercised both in peace and war; another to be exercised in time of foreign war without the boundaries of the United States, or in time of rebellion and civil war within states or districts occupied by rebels treated as belligerents...
Page 342 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 103 - If, in foreign invasion or civil war, the courts are actually closed, and it is impossible to administer criminal justice according to law, then, on the theatre of active military operations, where war really prevails, there is a necessity to furnish a substitute for the civil authority thus overthrown...
Page 151 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest. are the creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Page 106 - February 28, 1795, provided, that, " in case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State or of the executive, when the legislature cannot be convened...
Page 42 - Master, which is the great commandment in the Law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.
Page 183 - Schoolmen; who were generally of the contrary part, and whose writings were altogether in a different style and form; taking liberty to coin and frame new terms of art to express their own sense, and to avoid circuit of speech, without regard to the pureness, pleasantness, and (as I may call it) lawfulness of the phrase or word.