 | American periodicals - 1902 - 1046 pages
...John Adams Chavez Trujillo. LITERARY CHAT ANOTHER LESSON. (With Apolae'us ta Mr. Rudyard JCiflmf.) Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should : We have had no end of a lesson ; it ought to be doing us good. Not in a single issue, and not in a single book, But conclusively, comprehensively,... | |
 | Book collecting - 1902 - 1052 pages
...entitled "The Lesson," of which the theme is the results of the war in South Africa. It runs as follows : Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of Rand. Not on a single issue, or in one direction or twain,... | |
 | R. P. T. Davenport-Hines, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines - Business & Economics - 2004 - 312 pages
...Royal Commissions on the South African debacle. In the words of Kipling's poem 'The Lesson 1899-1902', Let us admit it fairly as a business people should....no end of a lesson ; it will do us no end of good . . . All the obese, unchallenged old things that stifle and overlie us Have felt the effects of the... | |
 | Michael Howard, James Corum - Counterinsurgency - 312 pages
...CHAPTER 7: The Way Ahead for America and the West 233 Notes 269 Index 297 FOREWORD BY SIR MICHAEL HOWARD Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should,...no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good. —Rudyard Kipling, 1903 Thus wrote Rudyard Kipling a little over a century ago, in the aftermath of... | |
 | 1901 - 670 pages
...its diction or its rhythm, but on the validity of its message. " Let us admit it fairly," he says, " as a business people should : we have had no end of a lesson : it will do us no end of good." If this is true, it is a message of great comfort ; but is it true ? I have one slight but not unimportant... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1904 - 596 pages
...that he can appreciate and to which he can respond. There is no mystery about it, for example : — "Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have had no end of a lesson, and it will do us no end of good." There is no mistake about that, you see how beautifully it rhymes,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1925 - 674 pages
...will be worth as much as the Rand. Let us approach this pivotal fact in a humble yet hopeful mood — We have had no end of a lesson : it will do us no end of good! THE LESSON It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty... | |
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Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have had no end of a lesson : it will do us no end of good. 
