 | 1848 - 700 pages
...domestic buggaboo — hut labour is no evil at all, but quite tho reverse— according to high authority " There is nothing worth having that can be had without it, from tho bread which the peasant wins with the sweat of his brow, to the sports by which the rich man must... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 440 pages
...your mind that labour is the condition which God has imposed on us in every station of life—there is nothing worth having that can be had without it,...sports by which the rich man must get rid of his ennui. The only difference betwixt them is, that the poor man labours to get a dinner to his appetite, the... | |
 | Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 430 pages
...cannot too much impress upon your mind that labour is the condition which God has imposed on us in ever; station of life — there is nothing worth having...without it, from the bread which the peasant wins with ihe sweat of his brow, to the sports by which the rich man must, get rid of his ennui. The only difference... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...condition which God has imposed on us in every station of life—there is nothing worth having Ibat can be had without it, from the bread which the peasant...sweat of his brow, to the sports by which the rich man nmsl, get rid of his ennui. The only difference betwixt them is, that the poor man labours to get a... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 458 pages
...cannot too much impress upon your mind that labour is the condition which God has imposed on us in every station of life — there is nothing worth having,...sports by which the rich man must get rid of his ennui. The only difference betwixt them is, that the poor man labours to get a dinner to his appetite, the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 454 pages
...cannot too much impress upon your mind that labour is the condition which God has imposed on us in every station of life — there is nothing worth having,...sports by which the rich man must get rid of his ennui. The only difference betwixt them is, that the poor man labours to get a dinner to his appetite, the... | |
 | Anthony Atwood - 1842 - 202 pages
...too strongly impress upon your mind, that labor is the condition which God has imposed on us in every station of life. There is nothing worth having that...without it, from the bread which the peasant wins by the sweat of his brow, to the sports by which the rich man must get rid of his ennui. The only difference... | |
 | Robert M. Hovenden - 1844 - 386 pages
...Walter Scott, in a letter to his son, — labour is the condition which God has imposed on us, in every station of life : there is nothing worth having that...sports by which the rich man must get rid of his ennui. The only difference between them is, that the poor man labours to get a dinner for his appetite, the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...cannot too much impress upon your mind that labour is the condition which God has imposed on us in every station of life — there is nothing worth having...sports by which the rich man must get rid of his ennui. The * From Sir Walter Scott's Letters to his son Charles Scott. only difference betwixt them is, that... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 306 pages
...the poor man labours to get a dinner to his appetite, the rich man to get an appetite to his dinner. As for knowledge, it can no more be planted in the human mind without labour, than a field of wheat can be produced without the previous use of the plough. There is indeed... | |
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I cannot too much impress upon your mind that labour is the condition which God has imposed on us in every station of life — there is nothing worth having, that can be had without it... 
