Think and Act: A Series of Articles Pertaining to Men and Women, Work and WagesClaxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 372 páginas |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Think and Act: A Series of Articles Pertaining to Men and Women, Work and Wages Virginia Penny Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
Think and Act: A Series of Articles Pertaining to Men and Women, Work and Wages Virginia Penny Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
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Página 169 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Página 17 - Even things in themselves not positively advantageous, sometimes become so by their tendency to provoke exertion. Every new scene which is opened to the busy nature of man to rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort.
Página 17 - To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.
Página 337 - It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men; nay, it is vain to expect that strength of natural affection which would make them good wives and mothers. Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their husbands they will be cunning, mean, and selfish...
Página 283 - Man owes his growth, his energy, chiefly to that striving of the will, that conflict with difficulty, which we call Effort. Easy, pleasant work does not make robust minds, does not give men a consciousness of their powers, does not train them VOL. V. 14 to endurance, to perseverance, to steady force of will, that force without which all other acquisitions avail nothing.
Página 17 - When all the different kinds of industry obtain in a community, each individual can find his proper element, and can call into activity the whole vigor of his nature...
Página 105 - The dull routine of ceaseless drudgery, in which the same mechanical process is incessantly repeated, resembles the torment of Sisyphus, — the toil, like the rock, recoils perpetually on the wearied operative.
Página 146 - I believe more than one-half the women who go into the Catholic Church join her because she gives work to her children. Happier far is a Sister of Charity or Mercy than a young lady at home without a work or a lover. We do not mean to say work will take the place of love in life, that is impossible; does it with men? But we ardently desire that women should not make love their profession.
Página 16 - ... the hand, before being ready for sale, does not undergo fewer than seventy operations, every one of which might be the occupation of a distinct class of workmen. . And if there are not seventy classes of work-people in each card manufactory, it is because the division of labor is not carried so far as it might be ; because the same workman is charged with two, three, or four distinct operations. The influence of this distribution of employments is immense. I have seen a card manufactory where...