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. 1870 Excerpt: ...that some persons who seem to be always busy, and when applied to for any service, never have a moment of leisure to give to it, after all, accomplish very little. If you scrutinize the case, you will almost always find that the chief difficulty lies in the want of method. These persons are willing enough to labour; ...
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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. 1870 Excerpt: ...that some persons who seem to be always busy, and when applied to for any service, never have a moment of leisure to give to it, after all, accomplish very little. If you scrutinize the case, you will almost always find that the chief difficulty lies in the want of method. These persons are willing enough to labour; but they have never trained themselves to labour systematically. They take everything at random, and of course at disadvantage. Nothing is done in its appropriate place, nothing at the proper time; and hence that which is done, is often to very little purpose. You may be the busiest man in the community, and your efforts may generally be well directed; and yet, without system, you would hardly be missed, if you should be removed from the world. Endeavour then always to work by rule. Let your duties succeed each other so as to produce no confusion, so that you shall never find yourself lost in the midst of them. Let your diligence be systematic as well as earnest and persevering, and it cannot fail to be both effective and delightful. CHAPTER X. ECONOMY. HERE is at least one incident recorded in the life of Joseph that strikingly illustrates his foresight and sagacity in respect to the management of his worldly concerns. Immediately after his appointment to the office of governor of the land of Egypt, he went forth, in anticipation of the famine which had been divinely revealed to him as about to come upon the land, and gathered up all the food of the plenteous seven years which were then passing, and deposited it in the various cities, that it might be ready against the time of need. That anticipated period quickly came; and the consequence was, that while there was a universal famine prevailing, to use the language of the narrative, "in al...
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