Captains of Industry: First-[second] series, المجلد 1Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1912 |
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الصفحة 119 - No, I have outlived the generation with which mutual labors and perils begat mutual confidence and influence. This enterprise is for the young — for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to its consummation. " It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.
الصفحة 390 - I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street — had passed the old washing house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time and had gone as far as the Herd's house when the idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder.
الصفحة 177 - It is pleasant to find that many of its Tales are of the Mills and of those who work in them ; that they inculcate habits of self-denial and contentment, and teach good doctrines of enlarged benevolence. A strong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome village air ; and though a circulating library is a...
الصفحة 34 - A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in public museums, just as an instrument of torture is now, and people will be astonished how such a thing could have been.
الصفحة 152 - But och ! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.
الصفحة 124 - The most forcible part of my Reply is on that head : read it attentively. I think that, of all sections of mankind, the clergy are those to whom, not only for their own sakes, but for the sake of the community, marriage should be most commended. Why, sir...
الصفحة 173 - He invited me to go out with him and see the loom operate. I well recollect the state of admiration and satisfaction with which we sat by the hour, watching the beautiful movement of this new and wonderful machine, destined as it evidently was, to change the character of all textile industry.
الصفحة 41 - To such persons be it known that self-reliance is a grand element of character ; it has won Olympic crowns and Isthmian laurels ; it confers kinship with men who have vindicated their divine right to be held in the world's memory.
الصفحة 102 - He loitered not, but left me, the driver of his team, to unyoke it in the furrow, and not many days after to follow him to camp.
الصفحة 212 - I am a working man as much as you. My father was as poor as any man in this crowd. He was of your own body, entirely. He boasts not — nor do I — of birth, nor of great family distinctions. What he has made, he has made by his own industry and successful commerce.