The Crown of Wild Olive: Four Letters on Industry and WarSmith, Elder, & Company, 1873 - 210 páginas |
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... happy , -among both rich and poor ; there is an idle class - weak , wicked , and miserable , -among both rich and poor . And the worst of the misunderstandings arising between the * Note this paragraph . I cannot enough wonder at the ...
... happy , -among both rich and poor ; there is an idle class - weak , wicked , and miserable , -among both rich and poor . And the worst of the misunderstandings arising between the * Note this paragraph . I cannot enough wonder at the ...
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... happy , it may sing little songs about him ; but it doesn't call that , serving its father ; neither is singing songs about God , serving God . It is enjoying ourselves , if it's anything ; most probably it is nothing : but if it's ...
... happy , it may sing little songs about him ; but it doesn't call that , serving its father ; neither is singing songs about God , serving God . It is enjoying ourselves , if it's anything ; most probably it is nothing : but if it's ...
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... happy . At the worst you do but shorten his life , you do not corrupt his life . But if you put him to base labour , if you bind his thoughts , if you blind his eyes , if you blunt his hopes , if you steal his joys , if you stunt his ...
... happy . At the worst you do but shorten his life , you do not corrupt his life . But if you put him to base labour , if you bind his thoughts , if you blind his eyes , if you blunt his hopes , if you steal his joys , if you stunt his ...
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... happy always , whether in its play or its duty . Well , that's the great worker's character also . Taking no thought for the morrow ; taking thought only for the duty of the day ; trusting somebody else to take care of to - morrow ...
... happy always , whether in its play or its duty . Well , that's the great worker's character also . Taking no thought for the morrow ; taking thought only for the duty of the day ; trusting somebody else to take care of to - morrow ...
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... happy , being filled with all iniquity of inordinate possession and power . Whereupon , the God of Gods , whose Kinghood is in laws , beholding a once just nation thus cast into misery , and desiring to lay such punishment upon them as ...
... happy , being filled with all iniquity of inordinate possession and power . Whereupon , the God of Gods , whose Kinghood is in laws , beholding a once just nation thus cast into misery , and desiring to lay such punishment upon them as ...
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Página 87 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Página 112 - Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them: she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fed there till wanted.
Página 75 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Página 112 - Fire!' is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for.
Página 69 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Página 111 - What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and upshot of war? To my own knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these, by certain 'natural enemies' of the French there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men : Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them : she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained...
Página 67 - — (we ought to have an opposite word, hateliness, to be said of the things which deserve to be hated) ; and it is not an indifferent nor optional thing whether we love this or that ; but it is just the vital function of all our being. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are ; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character.
Página 58 - Then the third character of right childhood is to be Loving and Generous. Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. It loves everything near it, when it is a right kind of child — would...
Página 66 - And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things : — not merely industrious, but to love industry— not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
Página 158 - compulsory education " which the people now ask of you is not catechism, but drill. It is not teaching the youth of England the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers ; and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It is, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls. It is a painful, continual, and difficult work ; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise,...