Preparing for the World's Work: A Text-book in Prevocational CivicsC. Scribner's sons, 1922 - 223 páginas |
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Preparing for the World's Work: A Text-book in Prevocational Civics Isaac Doughton Visualização completa - 1922 |
Preparing for the World's Work: A Text-book in Prevocational Civics Isaac Doughton Visualização completa - 1922 |
Preparing for the World's Work: A Text-book in Prevocational Civics Isaac Doughton Visualização completa - 1922 |
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Página 106 - On my honor I will do my best: 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout law. 2. To help other people at all times. 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Página xx - Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market place or tranquil room ; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way.
Página 167 - I should break away and get to sea, as his son Josiah had done, to his great vexation. He therefore sometimes took me to walk with him, and see joiners, bricklayers, turners, braziers, etc., at their work, that he might observe my inclination, and endeavor to fix it on some trade or other on land.
Página 163 - It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by ; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you! For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And...
Página i - For that is the thing a man is born to, in all epochs. He is born to expend every particle of strength that God Almighty has given him, in doing the work he finds he is fit for ; to stand up to it to the last breath of life, and do his best.
Página 163 - MY tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by ; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, 0 Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you.
Página xx - This is my work; my blessing, not my doom. Of all who live, I am the only one by whom This work can best be done in the right way." Then shall I see it not too great, nor small, To suit my spirit and to prove my powers; Then shall I cheerful greet the laboring hours, And cheerful turn, when the long shadows fall At eventide, to play and love and rest, Because I know...
Página 167 - This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession. In 1717 my brother James returned from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the...
Página xx - I pity no man because he has to work. If he is worth his salt, he will work. I envy the man who has a work worth doing, and does it well.