 ... have no curiosity; they cannot give themselves over to random provocations; they do not take pleasure in the exercise of their faculties for its own sake; and unless Necessity lays about them with a stick, they will even stand still. It is no good...  Questions Set at the Examinations ... - Pagina 18di College Entrance Examination Board - 1923Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 pagine
...stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those...not dedicated to furious moiling in the goldmill. TF a person cannot be happy without •^ remaining idle, idle he should remain. It is a revolutionary... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pagine
...stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those...which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold• mill. TF a person cannot be happy without remaining idle, idle he should remain. It is a revolutionary... | |
 | American Medico-Psychological Association - 1897 - 410 pagine
...Educational Monographs, Vol. III., No. 5. be idle, their nature is not generous enough," says Stevenson, "and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which...not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill." The argument for the continuous employment of the insane could not have been more happily stated by... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 252 pagine
...to such folk: they«z»\ not be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those hoars in a sort of coma, which ( are not dedicated to furious...world is a blank to them. If they have to wait an hoar or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open. To see them, you would... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1904 - 302 pagine
...stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those...they do not require to go to the office, when they *_. aot hungry and have no mind to drink, the whole breathing world is a blank to them. If they have... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1904 - 238 pagine
...stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those...not dedicated to furious moiling in the goldmill. TF a person cannot be happy without remaining idle, idle he should remain. It is a revolutionary precept... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks, Marietta Hubbard - 1905 - 458 pagine
...stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those...which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold mill. When they do nob require to go to the office, when they are not hungry and have no mind... | |
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