Organization in Daily Life: An EssayParker, Son, and Bourn, 1862 - 126 pages |
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Page 113 - My dooty tords my naben, to love him as thyself, and to do to all men as I wed thou shall do and to me, to love, onner, and suke my farther and mother, to onner and to bay the Queen, and all that are pet in a forty under her, to smit myself to all my gooness...
Page 109 - Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so custom'd ; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred, And temperate vapours bland, which the...
Page 61 - It is almost amusing for. to hear the way in which men scheme out a public office, or propose arrangements for military or naval service. If it is a public office, * ' By dint of looking on all sides, we at last espied a sign, on which was written in large Chinese characters, " Hotel of the Three Perfections, lodging for travellers on Horse or Camel ; all sorts of business negotiated with Unfailing Success.
Page 62 - Above all things, order and distribution and singling out of parts is the life of dispatch, so as the distribution be not too subtile ; for he that doth not divide...
Page 103 - No thank you, I don't. L (After more impatient reading, and glancing round his paper to peep at Jones). Most persons take mustard, sir, with beefsteak. Jones. I seldom or never do, sir. L (Attempts to get interested in a railway accident and mutters — " Three lives lost — tlie stoker escaped by a miracle. No blame can be attached to any of the officers of the Company.
Page 94 - ... is not so much for the combatants, or for the present generation : they have their amusement, and their excitement. My grief is for poor people in the future, who will know, as we know, the full bitterness of large taxation. It was a comfort to think that there was at least one people on the earth to whom the tax-gatherer was not a terror; — who, after the death of a head of a family, were not to see their mother's trinkets and their father's old familiar watch appraised, in order to ascertain...
Page 94 - ... painful interest in the present hideous contest. For my own part, I could sit down, and mourn, and utter doleful Jeremiads without end. But, to tell the truth, my sorrowing is not so much for the combatants, or for the present generation : they have their amusement, and their excitement. My grief is for poor people in the future, who will know, as we know, the full bitterness of large taxation. It was a comfort to think that there was at least one people on the earth to whom the tax-gatherer...
Page 35 - Very rare, indeed, is it to meet with a welUoonstructed house, even in a country like England, which is rich in all the means and appliances for building. It always seems as if an ordinary house had been constructed, with a view to the future employment of workmen, in reparation, renewal, and reconstruction. Of course, all that part of this labor which might have been avoided is so much national loss. One of the great defects in house-building is, that houses are so constructed as to be a mystery...
Page 79 - In her organization there are the ' vital force' which makes the plant grow, and the substances, organic and inorganic, which supply its sustenance. These latter correspond to our preparations of material, our rules, regulations, and ordinances, without a supply of which the organizing faculty will die, but which often smother it, or at least obstruct its growth. On the other hand, without these rules, forms, regulations, and preparations, the organizing faculty ends in mere ideas, and shrewd prophetic...
Page 79 - Mill's learning, imagination, and logical powers have at all dimmed his reputation as an accomplished administrator. reach of our supplies is a needful thing ; but splendid movements have been executed in contravention to this rule. To have a base for our operations is no doubt a good military rule ; but, occasionally, baseless operations have effected great results in war. And other instances might be multiplied without end. In conclusion, we cannot do better than turn again to Nature. In her organization...