 ... soberer views of life. Boys and girls are bred to discontent. Everybody is after a high place, and nearly everybody fails to get one; and failing, loses heart, temper and content. The multitude dress beyond their means, and live beyond their necessities,...  Annual Report - Página 194de Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education - 1878Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1861 - 358 páginas
...stimulate their ambitioq to exchange their station for one which stands 6 higher in the world's estimation. Humble employments are held in contempt, and humble...humility, the subordinate offices of life which they must ill, and taught to respect humble callings, and to beauify and glorify them by lives of contented and... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1877 - 482 páginas
...with high notions, and find it impossible to content themselves with their lot. They hoped to realize in life that which had been promised them in school;...beautify and glorify them by lives of contented and of glad industry. When our public schools accomplish an end so desirable as this, they will fulfill... | |
 | Grover C. Orth - 1926 - 196 páginas
...place, and nearly everybody fails to attain it; and, failing, loses heart, temper, and contentment. Humble employments are held in contempt, and humble...are everywhere making high employments contemptible. The majority of the offices of life are humble, and will forever remain so. No man is respectable when... | |
 | 1862 - 396 páginas
...stimulate their ambition to exchange their station for one standing higher in the world's estimation. Humble employments are held in contempt, and humble...taught to respect humble callings, and to beautify them by lives of contented and glad industry. When public schools accomplish an end so desirable as... | |
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