 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 808 pagine
...before the Flood or the French Revolution ; wid the old shepherd telling his tale under the hawthorn. Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk...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... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pagine
...by force of body, or power of character or intellect, that we attain to worthy pleasures. "pXTREME busyness, whether at school or •*""* college, kirk...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... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pagine
...before the Flood or the French Revolution ; and the old shepherd telling his tale under the hawthorn. Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitalityj] and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.... | |
 | Charles Willeby - 1896 - 350 pagine
...more strongly than any artist of my acquaintance Mr. RL Stevenson's theory, that "extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty...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... | |
 | American Medico-Psychological Association - 1897 - 410 pagine
...in the adult. In his charming essay on "An Apology for Idlers," Robert Louis Stevenson insists that "extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk...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,... | |
 | Edith Augusta Sawyer - 1899 - 386 pagine
...Hawthorne. THINE own heart — it is a paradise Which everlasting Spring has made its own. Shelley. te. EXTREME busyness, whether at school or college, kirk...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,... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1901 - 62 pagine
...may rather be a sign of limitation. Just as— to quote from the delightful Apology for Idlers — "extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk...appetite and a strong sense of personal identity" ; — so, changing the application but not the principle, we may say, extreme seriousness and strenuousness,... | |
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1901 - 298 pagine
...truth even in such sweeping and seemingly paradoxical statements as this : — " Extreme business, whether at school or college, kirk, or market, is...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... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1901 - 72 pagine
...Just as— to quote from the delightful Apolp^Jforldlers — '' extreme busyness, whetner at scnool or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient...appetite and a strong sense of personal identity" ; — so, changing the application but not the principle, we may say, extreme seriousness and strenuous-... | |
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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. 
