Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The Compilers acknowledge with grateful thanks the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Dodd, Mead and Company (for selections from Hamilton Wright Mabie’s “Before My Library Fire,” “In the Forest of Arden,” and other publications); Little, Brown and Company (sel...
The Compilers acknowledge with grateful thanks the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Dodd, Mead and Company (for selections from Hamilton Wright Mabie’s “Before...
2. Part 2A child, however educated, is still untaught if by his teaching we have not emphasized his individual character, if we have not strengthened his will and its guide and guardian,...
3. Part 3We never know for what God is preparing us in His schools--for what work on earth, for what work in the hereafter. Our business is to do our work well in the present place, what...
4. Part 4For life, with all its yields of joy and woe And hope and fear,--believe the aged friend,-- Is just our chance o’ the prize of learning love; How love might be, hath been indeed...
5. Part 5Endeavor to be patient in bearing the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for thou thyself also hast many failings which must be borne with by others...
6. Part 6In a world in which so many people wear the same clothes, live in the same house, eat the same dinner, and say the same things, blessed are the individuals who are not lost in t...