...Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality ; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sease of personal identity. There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely...

...Stevenson asserted that the bookishness of the schools produced "a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. . . . Books are good enough in their way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life." The...

...busyness, whether at school or •*-"* college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality ; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite...their desk or their study. They have no curiosity ; 23 they cannot give themselves over to randorc provocations ; they do not take pleasure in the exercise...

...busyness, whether at school or •*""* college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality ; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite...strong sense of personal identity. There is a sort of dead• alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise...

...acquaintance Mr. RL Stevenson's theory, that "extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity." When he is not working he idles intelligently, and there is little going on around him to which he...

..."extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity." All very well this as a special plea and as a special club with which to attack that " sort of dead-alive,...

...gave him our shoe to patch. — Lowell, Certain Condescension, p. 235. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894. You will see how they pine for their desk or their study. — RL Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, p. 118. Sometimes we catch an eye . . . and we wag our tail...

...EXTREME busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality ; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite, and a strong sense of personal identity. Stevenson. FOR I have ease, and I have health, And I have spirits light as air. And more than wisdom,...

...Extreme business, whether at school or college, kirk, or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality ; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity." He is a very purblind observer who does not at once admit the truth underlying this extreme and unqualified...

..."extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity" ; — so, changing the application but not the principle, we may say, extreme seriousness and strenuousness,...