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Making the Most of Life
by J. R. Miller
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, 1895. Hardcover. Good. 1895. Seventh Edition. 275 pages. No dust jacket. White & brown cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Pages are rough cut along bottom edge. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing and soiling to boards.
Synopsis
From the book:According to our Lord's teaching, we can make the most of our life by losing it. He says that losing the life for his sake is saving it. There is a lower self that must be trampled down and trampled to death by the higher self. The alabaster vase must be broken, that the ointment may flow out to fill the house. The grapes must be crushed, that there may be wine to drink. The wheat must be bruised, before it can become bread to feed hunger. It is so in life. Whole, unbruised, unbroken men are of but little use. True living is really a succession of battles, in which the better triumphs over the worse, the spirit over the flesh. Until we cease to live for self, we have not begun to live at all. We can never become truly useful and helpful to others until we have learned this lesson. One may live for self and yet do many pleasant things for others; but one's life can never become the great blessing to the world it was meant to be until the law of self-sacrifice has become its heart principle.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1711381887MEP
- Title
- Making the Most of Life
- Author
- J. R. Miller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1895
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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