 | 1854 - 406 sider
...system has been more or less abandoned, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal. The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it ; »nd hence,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 sider
...perfectly fitted to make them good mothers or useful old maids. It is still too often forgotten that ' the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.' It is still too much the fashion to teach what may possibly be useful, before what certainly must be.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 902 sider
...has been in great measure given up, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal. The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it ; and hence... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 sider
...has been in great measure given up, and precocity is discouraged. People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal The best brain is found of little service, if there be not enough vital energy to work it; and hence... | |
 | Merchants, Farmers and Mechanics' Savings Bank, Chicago - 1867 - 154 sider
...says in his work on Education, p. 232. " As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite in lii'e is ' to be a good animal,' and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition of national prosperity. Not only is it that the event of a war often turns on the strength and hardiness... | |
 | Wellington College - 1871 - 250 sider
...Mr. Kingsley has contributed in no small measure, that it recognizes the truth of the principle, that the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal." But what I wish to show is, that Loafing is possible and prevalent in other things than football. I... | |
 | 1879 - 596 sider
...their attention." Mr. Spencer goes on to quote with approval the observation of a recent writer that the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal." Our present condition physically he •describes in the following sentence. " After a period distinguished... | |
 | John Murdoch - 1873 - 122 sider
...Laws of Health —H. Spencer says, " As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success iu life 'is to be a good animal ;' and to be a nation...animals is the first condition to national prosperity." Even in England there is still lamentable ignorance among the masses with regard to the simplest principles... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 sider
...with an ounce of talent will achieve greater results than a pound of talent with an ounce of energy. The first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. In any of the learned professions a vigorous constitution is equal to at least fifty per cent more... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 376 sider
...with an ounce of talent will achieve greater results than a pound of talent with an ounce of energy. The first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. In any of the learned professions a vigorous constitution is equal to at least fifty per cent more... | |
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As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal ;" and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition to national prosperity. 
