Identifier: cangrocerjanjune1898toro (find matches)
Title: Canadian grocer January-June 1898
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Supermarkets Grocery trade Food industry and trade
Publisher: Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co. (1887)-
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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42 THE CANADIAN GROCER CONCENTRATED ENERGY. 66 T HE only valuable kind of study,said Sydney Smith, is to read soheartily that dinner-time comestwo hours before you expected it; to sitwith your Livy before you and hear the;geese cackling that saved the Capitol,and to see with your own eyes the Cartha-ginian sutlers gathering up the rings of theRoman knights after the battle of Cannte,and heaping them into bushels, and to be sointimately present at the actions you arereading of, that when anybody knocks atthe door it will take you two or threeseconds to determine whether you are inyour own study or on the plains of Lom-bardy, looking at Hannibals weather-beaten face and admiring the splendor ofhis single eye. Dont dally with your purpose.The one serviceable, safe, certain,remunerative, attainable quality in everystudy and pursuit is the quality of attention,said Charles Dickens. My own inven-tion, or imagination, such as it is, I canmost truthfully assure you, would neverhave served me

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