The Project Gutenberg eBook, Analyzing Character, by Katherine M H Blackford and Arthur pptx

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Analyzing Character, by Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur pptx

... wonder, then, that the misfithates his work. And yet, his hateIn the year 1792, MahmoudEffendi, a Turkish archer, hit amark with an arrow at 482yards. His bow, arrows,thumbring and groove ... lostlife."Consider the stone wall againstwhich the misfit batters hishead:He uses only his second rate, histhird rate, or even less effectivemental and physical equipment.He is thus handicapped at the start ... of his target;also, the sweep of the wind. Thishe gained by observationsrepeated until the informationgathered from them amountedto almost exact knowledge. by chance, irrespective of theirfitness...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Addresses, by Phillips Brooks pot

... of them,there could come this other power, ifalong with them there could come the certainty that if you refrain from that sinto-night you make the sum of sin that is in the world, and so the ... with the newmorning, to the glorious service of God, and the other of them is asking how hemay be a little richer in his miserablewealth when the day sinks. Oh, we lookinto the other world and ... the commonplace thoughts that men can think, the commonplace lives that men can live,are but in the bosom of the future. The thing that impresses me more and more isthis—that we only need to have...

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Baccara, by Hector Malot doc

... mais des temps durs avaientcommencé où les choses ne s'étaient pluscomment la vendre quand, par suite d'uneraison quelconque, crise commerciale ouchangement de mode, les acheteurs ... ellesavaient changé de caractère. Quand laMaman possédait la moitié de la maisonde commerce, elle était une associée, eton lui devait les comptes qu'on rend à unpendant que la Maman continuait ... d'une mainaussi habile que ferme celles de lafabrique; en vraie femme de commerce,comme il n'était pas rare d'en rencontrerautrefois derrière les rideaux verts d'uncomptoir, mais...

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Business English, by Rose Buhlig docx

... words which,because they are the names of moderninventions, have come into the language inmodern time.Exercise 7How many words can you name whichmight be called the technical terms ofExercise ... confronted with the necessity of putting the best thoughts into the clearest, most concise language, at the same time obeying all the rules ofspelling, punctuation, and grammar. The business man must ... can be made. The exercises show the value of the subject. The study of words is interestingbecause words themselves are interesting.Sometimes the interest consists in the story of the derivation....

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Business English, by Rose Buhlig ppt

... hat and the ā in hate.Which has more nearly the sound of a in the alphabet? This is called the natural orlong sound of the vowel. The other iscalled the short sound.Drop the e from hate. Explain ... e, and is marked with the tilde or waveExercise 11—VowelsOf the twenty-six letters in the alphabet, how many are vowels? Namethem. What are the other letters called?Compare the ă in hat and ... personally.Thousands of salesmen daily move frombankrupt milliner java mercurycash pullman cashmere colossalmint grocer macadam turbineExercise 2 The days of the week and the months of the year...

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Commercial Geography, by Jacques W. Redway doc

... is the history of the other; and whatever maybe the basis of civilization, commerce hasbeen the chief agent by which it has beenspread throughout the world. Peoples whoreceive nothing from their ... 274British Isles 299Germany and Scandinaviancommerce, because the feudal lord hadmany wants, and he was usually willing toprotect the merchant who supplied them. The Crusades and Commerce. The Crusades, ... of the adjustment thatoccurred when the opening of the CapeROUTES TO INDIA THE TURK CHANGES THE COMMERCE OF THE WORLDNow a commerce that involved not onlymany millions of dollars, but the XX.The...

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Strictly Business, by O. Henry doc

... theatre made there by the petulant push of gloved hands tooimpatient to finger the clumsy thumb-latch and where I last saw Cherry whiskingthrough like a swallow into her nest, ontime to the ... at the Westphalia (nohams alluded to) Theatre, Winona Cherrywas nervous. When she fired at the photograph of the Eastern beauty on the mantel, the bullet, instead of penetrating the photo and ... dagger for the pistol,restored the pistol—put the sketch throughall the known processes of condensation and improvement.They rehearsed it by the old-fashionedboardinghouse clock in the rarely...

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Darwiniana, by Thomas Henry Huxley ppt

... selects such male and female individuals as exhibit the desired character, and breeds from them. Theiroffspring are then carefully examined, and those which exhibit the peculiarity the most distinctly ... country, and one will pretty certainly disagree with the other as to the number, limits, and definitions of the species into which hegroups the very same things. In theseislands, we are in the habit ... theirrelations to the conditions which surroundthem, their mutual harmonies and discordancies of structure, the bond ofunion of their present and their pasthistory, he finds himself, according to the received...

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Car of Destiny by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson pot

... WILLIAMSONIllustrations by Armand BothOTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHORSLady Betty Across the Water,My Friend the Chauffeur, The Princess Virginia,etc.Copyright, 1907, by The McClure CompanyCopyright, 1906, by McClure, ... have sung the song of the stars. She had not forgottenme since the afternoon. The look in my eyes then, had arrestedsome thought of hers, and set me apart in her mind from othermen.It was ... my arms. I hardly dared believemy own luck. Neither of us spoke. I was lost in the sense of hernearness, the knowledge that it was the music which gave me the right to hold her thus, and that...

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