This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...is a typical and classic example of this disposition to bold undertakings and labours that must be accomplished outside of ordinary conditions. After the destruction of Chicago by the great fire that left only a trifling portion of the city standing, as soon as the immediate demoralisation had passed, there ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...is a typical and classic example of this disposition to bold undertakings and labours that must be accomplished outside of ordinary conditions. After the destruction of Chicago by the great fire that left only a trifling portion of the city standing, as soon as the immediate demoralisation had passed, there was an extraordinary display of energy. Drafts were made upon all the reserve funds and all the sources of activity, in order to rebuild the city as quickly and as substantially as possible. One day a citizen presented himself at the office of a building contractor. "I need a house of such and such a character." "Very well, when do you want it?" The date was named. "We have fifteen buildings already promised for that day, but all of them are to be finished in the morning; we will put yours down for the afternoon. You may count upon having it." America has her industrial schools, but the best of them all is herself, with her traditions and her practical ardour for industry. We attain to nothing high in any field without beginning at the rudiments, and in order to direct the work of others, we ourselves ought first to have done the thing they are to do. The life story of multitudes of men who have arrived at the direction of great business enterprises, begins with some simple and modest task which they exerted their ingenuity to do as well as possible. In America to have begun with nothing is the greater honour. The energetic boy who thinks only of doing his work well, has but to look around him in order to see men that are living examples of what he may expect from life if he is not sparing of his pains, and this is a great incentive for every one to do his best. Once the impression gets abroad that a young man is...
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Good in No jacket. New York: McClure, Phillips Co., 1906. First American edition [1906]. In English, translated from the French. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Covers rubbed at the extremities, small spot to spine and front joint, good hinges, sound text block, private school stamp on front pastedown, pages clean and otherwise unmarked. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
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