Excerpt from Sermons Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. How many young men set out in life with this demand, thinking more of their fancied claims than they do Of their real Obligations, more of luck than of work, of that which is to fall to them than Of what they are to win by their own labor; re garding life as a game of chance instead of a long and laborious task, - the world as a house of en tertainment, board and lodging free, or nearly so, and sumptuous at that, - everything that heart can wish, with ...
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Excerpt from Sermons Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. How many young men set out in life with this demand, thinking more of their fancied claims than they do Of their real Obligations, more of luck than of work, of that which is to fall to them than Of what they are to win by their own labor; re garding life as a game of chance instead of a long and laborious task, - the world as a house of en tertainment, board and lodging free, or nearly so, and sumptuous at that, - everything that heart can wish, with very little trouble in the getting of it! This childish View of life has many modifications. One expects his portion of goods to fall to him by inheritance; another expects it by special indul gence from the world. Here is one who has no thought of maintaining himself by any adequate exertion of his own; and there one whose notion of self-maintenance consists in so watching his Opportunity as to snatch a competence by some lucky hit, some financial operation which creates no real values, but realizes large profits on the faith Of artificial ones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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