Getting One's Bearings: Observations for Direction and DistanceFleming H. Revell Company, 1903 - 301 |
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... passing ship , a distant lighthouse ; to find the direction of a re- mote object which is in sight . From this , other facts concerning position may be determined . The method is readily transferred to the com- mon life , in which a man ...
... passing ship , a distant lighthouse ; to find the direction of a re- mote object which is in sight . From this , other facts concerning position may be determined . The method is readily transferred to the com- mon life , in which a man ...
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... pass undetected . " Politeness ap- pears to be what goodness really is ; " there is truth in the saying , but it would be better to say that real goodness is polite and is made at- tractive by courtesy . Politeness has been called ...
... pass undetected . " Politeness ap- pears to be what goodness really is ; " there is truth in the saying , but it would be better to say that real goodness is polite and is made at- tractive by courtesy . Politeness has been called ...
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... pass into kind action . Justice and truth must appear in just and truthful dealings . This will naturally make a man thoughtful and courte- ous , not only on the special occasions when he takes pains to deport himself worthily , but ...
... pass into kind action . Justice and truth must appear in just and truthful dealings . This will naturally make a man thoughtful and courte- ous , not only on the special occasions when he takes pains to deport himself worthily , but ...
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... pass it on . Let a young man compel himself twenty times a day to say Why , and to wait for an answer , and it will be hard for him to avoid success . That the place of reason in the highest do- main of thought and life should be ...
... pass it on . Let a young man compel himself twenty times a day to say Why , and to wait for an answer , and it will be hard for him to avoid success . That the place of reason in the highest do- main of thought and life should be ...
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... pass endless years within the walls . We have made a good beginning and the way upward is open . How shall we find it and walk in it ? Partly by our own thought and study and experi- ment . But there is inestimable encouragement and ...
... pass endless years within the walls . We have made a good beginning and the way upward is open . How shall we find it and walk in it ? Partly by our own thought and study and experi- ment . But there is inestimable encouragement and ...
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