How to Win Our Workers: A Short Account of the Leeds Sewing School for Factory Girls

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Macmillan and Company, 1862 - 81 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 81 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
الصفحة 76 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
الصفحة 64 - It is not because of his toils that I lament for the poor: we must all toil, or steal (howsoever we name our stealing), which is worse; no faithful workman finds his task a pastime. The poor is hungry and a-thirst; but for him also there is food and drink: he is heavy-laden and weary; but for him also the Heavens send Sleep, and of the deepest; in his smoky cribs, a clear dewy heaven of Rest envelops him, and fitful glitterings of cloud-skirted Dreams.
الصفحة 56 - Precious is the new light of Knowledge which our Teacher conquers for us ; yet small to the new light of Love which also we derive from him : the most important element of any man's performance is the Life he has accomplished. Under the intellectual union of man and man, which works by precept, lies a holier union of affection, working by example ; the influences of which latter, mystic, deep-reaching, all-embracing, can still less be computed. For Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire...
الصفحة 2 - TOCQUEVILLE. — Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville. Translated from the French by the Translator of "Napoleon's Correspondence with King Joseph.
الصفحة 34 - To make some nook of God's Creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God ; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier, — more blessed, less accursed ! It is work for a God.
الصفحة 5 - British Novelists and their Styles. Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. Life of John Milton.
الصفحة 80 - Review says: — -"The Globe Editions are admirable for their scholarly editing, their typographical excellence, their compendious form, and their cheapness.
الصفحة 75 - No character, we may affirm, was ever rightly understood till it had first been regarded with 'a certain feeling, not of tolerance only, but of sympathy. For here, more than in any other case, it is verified that the heart sees farther than the head.
الصفحة 73 - Truly, it has been said, emphatically in these days ought it to be repeated: A loving Heart is the beginning of all Knowledge.

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