 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...the meantime will take a minute of it. The Drummer, Act in. Scene I. ADDISON. PROFESSION. Choice of a Let my children be husbandmen and housewives ; it...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1869 - 356 pages
...voyage to America, speaks also in strong terms upon the point in question. "But agriculture," says he, "is especially in my eye. Let my children be husbandmen and housewives. This occupation is industrious, healthy, honest, and of good example. Like Abraham and the holy ancients,... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1895 - 982 pages
...houses or ships, measuring, surveying, dialling, navigation; hut agriculture is especially in my cyo. Let my children be husbandmen and housewives; it is...industrious, healthy, honest, and of good example. At a later day he wrote concerning his American province: Upon the whole- matter I undertake to say... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and the mind too. I recommend the useful partsof mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | 1874 - 180 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | William Mason Cornell - Dutch - 1876 - 598 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and Nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1876 - 664 pages
...country would have given a better aspect to American society than, we witness at the present day : — " Let my children be husbandmen and housewives : it is industrious, healthy, honest, and of good report. This leads to consider the works of God, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the... | |
 | Thomas Pym Cope - Pennsylvania - 1882 - 532 pages
...recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying, dialing, navigation ; but agriculture is especially in my eye...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | William Penn - 1882 - 524 pages
...recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying, dialing, navigation ; but agriculture is especially in my eye...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and the mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
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I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying, dialling, navigation ; but agriculture is especially in my eye : let my children be husbandmen and housewives ; it is industrious, healthy, honest and of good... 
