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...cover, sure enough, the name of "Scribner" appeared on the title-page. And Scribner is not alone. A friend who bought a text-book of the Boston agents of another New York firm found, on taking it home, that several leaves were loose. He at once took it back to ask an exchange, but was greeted with a refusal, accompanied by the information that "they did n't warrant cloth-bound books...
...means, to equal or outshine others, - these all excite to that demoniacal spirit of evil which leads downwards to destruction, and makes only the difference of a crooked "s" between peculation and speculation, both despoilers of the highest attributes of our nature. As to this expectation of "paying back," which is always brought forward as a salve for the conscience, it is, at best, but a very equivocal and unsatisfactory excuse, and recalls to mind the old adage that "Hell is paved with good intentions...
...expected to appear when wanted; and if not, it would not make much difference. Those who were foolish enough to choose such a study could wait eight or ten weeks well enough; or they could drop the study when they became tired of waiting, and grind up a little back work in some other branch. It would do them good, both by inculcating the habit of industry and by illustrating the terrible uncertainty of human expectations...
STUDENTS in economic science must have watched the Grange movement in the West this summer with much curiosity. Whether any valuable principle will be satisfactorily tested, or whether the farmers, blind from ignorance, will take the outstretched hand of politicians, and, after trying some unsound, plausible scheme, eventually sink back into their old state of comparative inferiority, are yet open questions. But it seems as if this country was about to learn by experience, what Scandinavia has long practised, that agriculturists can co-operate, as advantageously as other producers, both in selling their products and in buying implements and vital...
...constant adherence to the textbook. This is a wise view, taken by itself, but perhaps dangerous to you, Sir Galahad. You have placed the mark too high, and, in receding to your proper place, will be very likely to slip by it. Then we all know that climbing back is not so easy as descent. In manners and morals, too, as well as in study, the effects of new companionship and release from so much restraint are soon felt. Sociability leads to occasional smoking, which is again well, or, at least, not very ill. But sociability and smoking tend...