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THE GOSPEL OF WORK.

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The monks in olden times found it so. When (S. 18, N. 6) they shut themselves up from the world to worship God in prayers and hymns, they found that [here follows the subject "they"], without working*, without hard work either of head or of hands, they could not even be good men (S. 134, N. 9). The devil came and tempted them, they said, as often as they were idle. An idle monk's soul was lost, they used (S. 129, N. 6) to say, and they spoke truly. Though they gave up a large portion of every day, and of every night also, to 12 prayer and worship, (S. 27, N. 8) yet 13 they found [that] they could not pray aright without work.

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also of the day and of the night.

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Section 136.

DO NOT BE ASHAMED OF YOUR ORIGIN1.

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General Bau, a German (S. 101, N. 1) officer in1 the service of Russia, who had contributed much to the elevation of the great Catherine 2, had 3 orders to march to Holstein with a body of troops of which he had the command. He was a soldier of fortune, and no one knew either his family or his native place. One day (S. 19, N. 2), as he was encamped near Husum, he invited the principal 5 officers to dinner. As they were sitting down to the table, they saw a plain miller and his wife brought into the tent, whom the general had sent his aide-de-camp to seek. The poor miller and his wife approached, trembling (S. 53, N. 12) with apprehension. The general reconciled them to their situation, and made 10 them sit down beside him to dinner, during which he asked11 them a number of questions about their family.

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DO NOT BE ASHAMED OF YOUR ORIGIN.

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The good man told him that he was (App. § 28) the eldest son of a miller, and that he had two brothers in 1 a mercantile line and a sister.

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Section 138.

NOT NEAR ENOUGH YET.

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There is a popular report in the Brandenburg district, where Bismarck's family has been so many centuries at home, which attributes to the Bismarcks, as the characteristic saying of the house, the phrase: "Noch lange nicht genug "-(Not near enough yet), and which expresses, we suppose, the popular conception of their tenacity of purposethat they were not tired out of any plan they had formed by a reiterated failure or a pertinacious opposition which would have disheartened most of their compeers. There is a somewhat extravagant illustration of this characteristic in Bismarck's wild, youthful days, if his biographer may be trusted. When studying3 law at Berlin, he had been more than once disappointed by a bootmaker who 10 did not send home his boots when they were promised. Accordingly " when this next happened, a servant of the young jurist appeared at the bootmaker's at six in the morning (App. §9) with the simple question: "Are Herr 12 von Bismarck's boots ready?" When he was told they were not 13, he departed 1, but at ten minutes past six another servant appeared, asking 15 the same question, and 16 so at precise intervals of ten minutes it went on all day, till by " the evening the boots were finished and 18 sent home.-EARLE, "THE PHILOLOGY OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE."

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saying (Wahlspruch, m.) attributes (zu'schreiben, with the dat.) to the Bismarcks the phrase (Motto, n.)'. 2, Say 'as we suppose', which place after the rel. pron. 3, popular; conception, Vorstellung, f. 4, von ihrem zähen Festhalten am Zwecke. 5, bezeichnet. 6, that they even (auch) through repeated failure (Fehlschlagen) or pertinacious (hartnäckig) opposition (Widerstand, m.), which would have discouraged (entmutigt hätte, which place at the end of this clause) most of their compeers (Standesgenoffen), were not tired out of any plan they had formed (sich nicht von ihrem einmal gefaßten Plane abbringen ließen). 7, A somewhat eccentric illustration (Belag, m.) of (für) this characteristic quality we find in Bismarck's wild (stürmisch) youth, if we can trust his biographer. 8, To study law, Jura studieren. 9, täuschen; by, von. 10, Say who had not (App. § 10) sent back his boots at the appointed (verabredet) time. 11, When (S. 4, N. 2) it therefore happened again (wieder geschehen). 12, Fürst Otto von Bismarck wurde am 1. April 1815 zu Schönhausen, dem Stammgute der Familie Bismarck, in der Provinz Brandenburg im Königreiche Preußen geboren. Er entstammt der alten preußischen adeligen Familie von Bismarck, welche auch von BismarckSchönhausen genannt wird, um dieselbe von der ihr verwandten Familie von BismarckBohlen zu unterscheiden. Von Bismarck trat zuerst öffentlich auf dem Landtage von 1847 als Führer der äußersten Rechten (extreme Conservatives) und dann als Mitglied der im Jahre 1848 tagenden zweiten preußischen Kammer (the Prussian House of Commons) als entschiedener Gegner des Repräsentationssystems (Representative Government) und der Reichsverfassung hervor. Sein entschiedenes Talent für die diplomatische Laufbahn bestimmte die Regierung, ihn im Jahre 1851 zum Legationssekretär bei der preußischen Bundestagsgesandschaft in Frankfurt a/M. zu ernennen. Drei Monate später wurde er jedoch schon zum Bundestagsgefandten erhoben, in welcher Eigenschaft er vergeblich Preußens Gleichstellung mit Östreich beim Bundestage erstrebte. Nachdem er seit dem 1. April 1859 preußischer Gesandter in Petersburg und seit dem Frühjahr 1862 Botschafter in Paris gewesen, trat er am 24. September desselben Jahres als Minister des Auswärtigeu an die Spige des neu ernannten Kabinetts. Es würde zu weit führen, hier auf die Einzelheiten seiner großartigen Erfolge als Ministerpräsident einzugehen, genüge es zu bemerken, daß sein Hauptstreben darauf gerichtet war, Preußen zur herrschenden Macht in Deutschland zu machen, Ostreich daraus zu verdrängen, und schließlich durch Auflösung des deutschen Staatenbundes ein einiges Deutschland unter dem Zepter Preußens zu schaffen. Wie ihm diese Aufgabe gelang, ist allgemein befannt. Die schon lange zwischen Preußen und Östreich bestandene Eifersucht brach endlich im Jahre 1866 durch den Krieg in lichten Flammen aus. Preußen ging glänzend aus demselben als Sieger hervor. Durch den Prager Friedensvertrag entsagte Ostreich nicht allein seinen Ansprüchen als Präsidialmacht im deutschen Staatenbunde, sondern schied gänzlich aus demselben aus und erkannte den unter Preußens Führung zu stiftenden Norddeutschen Bund an. In Anerkennung seiner großen Erfolge wurde Bismarck nach beendigtem Kriege in den Grafenstand erhoben und zugleich zum Kanzler des Norddeut schen Bundes ernannt, dessen Angelegenheiten er mit so bedeutendem Geschick leitete, daß bei der im Jahre 1870 von Frankreich an Preußen erfolgten Kriegserklärung auch die Südstaaten sich dem Norddeutschen Bunde anschlossen und das ganze Deutschland vereinigt gegen den Feind in den Kampf ziehen konnte, aus dem es mit Lorbeeren gekrönt siegreich hervorging. Schon am 18. Januar 1871 ward König Wilhelm I. von Preußen unter Zustimmung aller deutschen Staaten im Schlosse zu Versailles als deutscher Kaiser proklamiert. Das große Ziel Bismarcks war erreicht. Die Einheit des bisher zerstückelten Vaterlandes war wiederhergestellt, ein mächtiges deutsches Reich unter der Führung Preus Bens gegründet, und die demselben drohenden Feinde waren besiegt und geschlagen. Am 20. Mai 1871 wurde von dem Fürsten und Reichskanzler Bismarck zu Frankfurt a/M. der Friede mit Frankreich unterzeichnet, durch welchen die früher von dem deutschen Reiche getrennten Herzogtümer Lothringen und Elsaß demselben wieder einverleibt wurden und Frankreich sich verpflichtete, an Deutschland eine Kriegsentschädigung von fünf Milliarden Franken zu zahlen. Die Eröffnung des deutschen Reichstages in Berlin, am 21. März 1871, gehört vielleicht zu den größten Triumphen dieses höchst seltsamen

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Mr. Thomas Carlyle had lent the Manuscript of the first volume of his "French Revolution" to a neighbour to peruse. By1 some mischance or other, it had been left lying on the parlour-floor, and 3 become forgotten. Weeks ran on, when at last the historian sent for his manuscript, the printers being loud for copy. Inquiries were made, and then it was found that the maid-of-all-work, finding what she conceived to be a bundle of waste paper on the floor, had 10 used it to light the kitchen and parlour fires with 11. Such 12 was the answer returned 13 to Mr. Carlyle, and his consternation and despair may be imagined (S. 4, N. 4). There 11 was, however, no help for him but to set himself resolutely to work to re-write his book; and 15 he turned to and did it. He had no draft 16, and 17 was compelled to rake up from his memory facts, ideas, and expressions, which had long since been dismissed. composition 18 of the book in the first instance had been a work of real pleasure; the 19 re-writing of it, a second time, was one of pain and anguish almost beyond belief. That 20 he persevered and finished the volume under such circumstances affords 21 an instance of determination of purpose which has seldom been exceeded.-S. SMILES, "SELF-HELP." 2, it-lying,

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Do not think it a mean thing to look up to (zu) those who are superior to yourselves. On the contrary, you will find in practice, that