| 1853 - 630 páginas
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| 1854 - 406 páginas
...forcing system has been more or less abandoned, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal. The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it ; »nd hence,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1860 - 332 páginas
...system has been in great measure given up, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal. The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it; and hence... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 páginas
...is perfectly fitted to make them good mothers or useful old maids. It is still too often forgotten that ' the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.' It is still too much the fashion to teach what may possibly be useful, before what certainly must be.... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1863 - 904 páginas
...system has been in great measure given up, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal. The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it ; and hence... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 páginas
...system has been in great measure given up, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it; and hence... | |
| 1879 - 596 páginas
...of their attention." Mr. Spencer goes on to quote with approval the observation of a recent writer that the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal." Our present condition physically he •describes in the following sentence. " After a period distinguished... | |
| Wellington College - 1871 - 250 páginas
...which Mr. Kingsley has contributed in no small measure, that it recognizes the truth of the principle, that the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal." But what I wish to show is, that Loafing is possible and prevalent in other things than football. I... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 202 páginas
...with an ounce of talent will achieve greater results than a pound of talent with an ounce of energy. The first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. In any of the learned professions a vigorous constitution is equal to at least fifty per cent more... | |
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