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Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself . Avoid trifling Conversation . 3. ORDER . Let all your Things have their Places . Let each Part of your Business have its Time . 4. RESOLUTION . Resolve to perform what you ought .
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself . Avoid trifling Conversation . 3. ORDER . Let all your Things have their Places . Let each Part of your Business have its Time . 4. RESOLUTION . Resolve to perform what you ought .
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It is possible you might think justly enough ; but could you speak ? You are not in the habit of public speaking . You are not furnished with those common place ideas , with which even very ignorant men can pass for knowing something .
It is possible you might think justly enough ; but could you speak ? You are not in the habit of public speaking . You are not furnished with those common place ideas , with which even very ignorant men can pass for knowing something .
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We speak conformably to the rumor which we have heard . From exertion come wisdom and purity ; from sloth ignorance and sensuality . In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind . An unclean person is universally a slothful one ...
We speak conformably to the rumor which we have heard . From exertion come wisdom and purity ; from sloth ignorance and sensuality . In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind . An unclean person is universally a slothful one ...
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Contents
Four Early Travelers and Observers | 1 |
George Alsop 1638post 1666 | 27 |
Of the Situation and Plenty | 34 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | American Literature: Tradition & Innovation, Volume 1 American Literature: Tradition & Innovation, Harrison T. Meserole |
| Editors | Harrison T. Meserole, Walter Sutton, Brom Weber |
| Compiled by | Harrison T. Meserole, Walter Sutton, Brom Weber |
| Publisher | Heath, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 1854 pages |
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