Country Towns, and the Place They Fill in Modern Civilization. By the Author of "Three Months' Rest at Pau" [i.e. Elizabeth C.T. Carne.]

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Bell and Daidy, 1868 - 195 páginas
 

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Página 61 - ... do not ask themselves — what do I prefer ? or, what would suit my character and disposition ? or, what would allow the best and highest in me to have fair play, and enable it to grow and thrive ? They ask themselves, what is suitable to my position ? what is usually done by persons of my station and pecuniary circumstances?
Página 49 - Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
Página 62 - I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of...
Página 61 - ... what do I prefer ? or, what would suit my character and disposition ? or, what would allow the best and highest in me to have fair play, and enable it to grow and thrive ? They ask themselves, what is suitable to my position ? what is usually done by persons of my station and pecuniary circumstances ? or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine?
Página 170 - And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words unto them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
Página 41 - But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.
Página 95 - I love snow, and all the forms Of the radiant frost: I love waves, and winds, and storms, Everything almost Which is Nature's, and may be Untainted by man's misery.
Página 184 - The initiation of all wise or noble things, comes and must come from individuals ; generally at first from some one individual. The honour and glory of the average man is that he is capable of following that initiative ; that he can respond internally to wise and noble things, and be led to them with his eyes open. I am not countenancing the sort of
Página 90 - Instances in which the muscular system is fully developed or well strung, are remarkably rare. Few are men of that calibre from which we might expect either vigorous and healthy offspring, or arduous and sustained labour. Cases of deformity, accompanied by actual distortions, are by no means uncommon ; while minor physical defects, many of them denoting no trifling constitutional ailments, are deplorably frequent.
Página 38 - The exercise of the faculties, by the application of the mind to a variety of operations, — the invention, ingenuity, and judgment called forth, the resources to be found for want of skill, tools, and cooperative aid, make the production of an article, by single-handed or family work, much more intellectual and improving, although the article produced be very much inferior and more costly than if it had been produced by factory work. The product is better, but not the producer.

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