The Mechanic's organ, or, Journal for young men and women [afterw.] Voice of the masses |
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... give a decided preference to what more directly bears on the profession he has chosen , and in the duties of which he is actually engaged . No wise man will indulge the Utopian desire of universal information , There must , therefore ...
... give a decided preference to what more directly bears on the profession he has chosen , and in the duties of which he is actually engaged . No wise man will indulge the Utopian desire of universal information , There must , therefore ...
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... give occasionally , from various sources , anything which may appear interest- ing or amusing , but still endeavouring to have under the honey which appears on the surface , wholesome and substantial food . AN APPRENTICE'S WAY OF ...
... give occasionally , from various sources , anything which may appear interest- ing or amusing , but still endeavouring to have under the honey which appears on the surface , wholesome and substantial food . AN APPRENTICE'S WAY OF ...
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... give visibility to your thoughts and feelings . Your sentences may not strictly grammatical - never mind that you will improve by practice . At all events TRY ! Try also to promote the circulation of the " Organ ,, you will thereby ...
... give visibility to your thoughts and feelings . Your sentences may not strictly grammatical - never mind that you will improve by practice . At all events TRY ! Try also to promote the circulation of the " Organ ,, you will thereby ...
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... give it his support , and do all he can to make it interesting . I am , Sir , yours , A MEMBER OF THE MECHANICS ' INSTITUTION . [ We agree with our correspondent , that " there is plenty of talent among Mechanics " -but from their ...
... give it his support , and do all he can to make it interesting . I am , Sir , yours , A MEMBER OF THE MECHANICS ' INSTITUTION . [ We agree with our correspondent , that " there is plenty of talent among Mechanics " -but from their ...
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... give a kind response to the call of those who have honestly catered for its yearnings . Though egotism we ab- hor , yet in honest pride we may be per- mitted to indulge . True we want not our great I to swallow up every other I. But we ...
... give a kind response to the call of those who have honestly catered for its yearnings . Though egotism we ab- hor , yet in honest pride we may be per- mitted to indulge . True we want not our great I to swallow up every other I. But we ...
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Popular passages
Page 50 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 119 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 52 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew^th.
Page 52 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 1 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 45 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 119 - ... such society shall be supported wholly or in part by annual voluntary contributions, and shall not, and by its laws may not, make any dividend, gift, division, or bonus in money unto or between any of its members, and provided also that such society shall obtain the certificate of the barristerat-law or lord advocate, as herein-after mentioned.
Page 49 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 1 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Page 51 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.