Student and Family Miscellany, Vol. 10: Devoted to the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and Home Instruction, Embracing the Sciences, Natural History, Biography, Travels, Poetry, Etc., Also Designed as a Monthly Reader for Schools; From November, 1854 to Apr
Excerpt from Student and Family Miscellany, Vol. 10: Devoted to the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and Home Instruction, Embracing the Sciences, Natural History, Biography, Travels, Poetry, Etc., Also Designed as a Monthly Reader for Schools; From November, 1854 to April, 1855 Rifling though our theme may appear, tri es make perfection, and perfection is no tri e. One of the great mistakes which the world makes is, that small things are not worthy of much thought. Almost by common consent these are spoken of disparagingly. ...
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Excerpt from Student and Family Miscellany, Vol. 10: Devoted to the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and Home Instruction, Embracing the Sciences, Natural History, Biography, Travels, Poetry, Etc., Also Designed as a Monthly Reader for Schools; From November, 1854 to April, 1855 Rifling though our theme may appear, tri es make perfection, and perfection is no tri e. One of the great mistakes which the world makes is, that small things are not worthy of much thought. Almost by common consent these are spoken of disparagingly. It's only a tri e, and does not matter much. Tri es do matter much; they are all-important; they make up the mass of great things they form the bulk of the incidents of our lives; they are the starting points from which great events begin their course they are as the rudder, the small rudder, which controls the vast ship, and guides it in its path over the trackless waves. Wherever we turn, if we have our eyes open, the importance of tri es will be impressed upon us. Almost all the natural agencies by which great operations are effected, are minute - often so small that they are imperceptible. A spacious harbor Opens from a rug ged coast; mariners used to run their vessels into its land-locked waters for shelter from the tempests which beat upon the shore. Once there was water deep enough at its mouth for the largest ships, laden to their utmost, to pass. Gradually it grew more and more shallow, till to-day the keel of the fishing-boat, which almost skims over the wave's tsp, grates upon the bottom. How has the deep water become shallow? No great banks have been heaved up no gigantic rocks lie prostrate there; no large boulder-stones take up the passage. No; grain by grain, atom by atom, each wave, as it came and went, left its tribute of sediment, so small that the watch ing eye would never have noticed the deposit; and thus grew the bar which has stopped the harbor's mouth. 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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