is the most vicious of all wild beasts;" and, in the same spirit, the old English poet, Gascoigne, says, "a boy is better unborn than untaught." The city breeds one kind of speech and manners; the back-country a different style; the sea another; the army... Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... - Page 111by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880Full view - About this book
| Henry Maudsley - 1880 - 608 pages
...passion, It were as warrantable to get enthusiastic about the purity and innocence of a dog's mind. " A boy," says Plato, " is the most vicious of all wild beasts" ; or, as some one else has put it, " a boy is better unborn than untaught.'.' 13y nature sinful and... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1880 - 608 pages
...passion. It were as warrantable to get enthusiastic about the purity and innocence of a dog's mind. " A boy," says Plato, " is the most vicious of all wild beasts" ; or, as some one else has put it, " a boy is better unborn than untaught." By nature sinful and vicious,... | |
| John Swett - 1880 - 358 pages
...ruled; and woe be to that man or woman who falls a weak prey to young and merciless school tyrants. "A boy," says Plato, "is the most vicious of all wild beasts." The young are the creatures of impulse, and children seek to gratify their impulses at once, without... | |
| X Y. Z - 1881 - 412 pages
...those who understand it.' Marshal Lannes, ' None but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.' ' A boy,' says Plato, ' is the most vicious of all wild beasts.' Gascoigne, an old English poet, observes, ' A boy is better unborn, than untaught.' Saadi says, ' The... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 pages
...resources of philosophy, art, and religion, books, travel, society, solitude. The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or...The city breeds one kind of speech and manners; the back-country a different style; the sea another; the army a fourth. We know that an army which can... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 558 pages
...exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation. The antidotes against this organic egotism arc, the range and variety of attractions, as gained by...; " and, in the same spirit, the old English poet Gascoigno says, "a boy is bettor unborn than untaught" The city breeds one kind of speech and manners... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1883 - 492 pages
...society, solitude. The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or who lias visited a menagerie or the exhibition of the Industrious...beasts;" and, in the same spirit, the old English poet Gascoi«-ne says, "A boy is better unborn than untaught." The city breeds one kind of speech and manners;... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 pages
...resources of philosophy, art, and religion, books, travel, society, solitude. The hardiest skeptic who has seen a horse broken, a pointer trained, or...visited a menagerie or the exhibition of the Industrious Pleas will not deny the validity of education. "A boy," says Plato, " is the most vicious of all wild... | |
| Benjamin Young Conklin - 1889 - 316 pages
...in the second, Plato shall do the saying : 1. The prisoner said the witness is a convicted thief. 2. A boy says Plato is the most vicious of all wild beasts. LXXIX.— ORAL PARSING. 281. Remarks on Parsing. — Routine parsing is often carried to such an extreme... | |
| William Gilbert Anderson - 1896 - 296 pages
...to establish a nomenclature in American gymnastics. CHAPTER XV. HINTS ON TEACHING A CLASS OF BOYS. "A BOY," says Plato, " is the most vicious of all wild beasts." It is true that they are hard to manage in the gymnasium, not because they are naturally vicious or... | |
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