 | 1854 - 406 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 pàgines
...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 - 898 pàgines
...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 - 902 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...a thimbleful of brains, he will either blunder upon success or set failure at defiance. It is true that the number of centaurs in every community —...qualities of the mind, attain thereby a force and splendour to which they could never approach without it. But intellect in a weak body is " like gold... | |
 | John Murdoch - 1875 - 366 pàgines
...hereafter. The subject of this chapter deserves careful consideration. An able writer remarks, that " the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal." III. — THE OBJECTS OP STUDY. The hope of temporal advancement is everywhere a great incentive to... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 pàgines
...has been in great measure given up, aud 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... | |
 | James Leitch - 1876 - 332 pàgines
...right that it may be able to obey the behests of the mind ; the former going the length of saying that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. ' The best brain is of little service if there be not enough vital energy to work it.' (p. 60.) In... | |
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal. 
