| 1905 - 542 sider
...of real friendship to the people and to the throne. Never was any thing truer than the old saying, that " all " work and no play makes Jack a dull boy;" and>, accordingly, all wise legislators, and, indeed, all legislators, till of very late, have taken -care... | |
| William Cobbett - 1805 - 544 sider
...real friendship to the people and to the throne. NeVer • was any thing truer than the old saying, that " all " work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ;" and, accordingly, all wise legislators, and, indeed, all legislators, till of very late, have taken care... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 408 sider
...a duty, yet labor should have its limits. It is not only true of children, but of grown-up people, that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." And is it not matter of fact that many of the good people of our country run into the error of excessive... | |
| William Martin - 1878 - 344 sider
...health, of the mens sana in corpore sano (or, as it may be literally translated in the vernacular, that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"), and he insisted that some hours should be daily robbed from the piano for the cultivation of robust exercises,... | |
| 384 sider
...places of the aquatic plants, nor the aquatic plants those of the heaths. KN It is a common saying, that ''all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ;" and however useful it maybe, it is to be feared, that a book which gives only a dry routine of instruction... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1849 - 448 sider
...this respect than the illiterate but earnestminded seaman who stood at his side. . He knew very well that " all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy;" and he understood well enough that it was good for man, at stated seasons, to raise his mind from the cares... | |
| 1881 - 792 sider
...occasionally. Extending over the whole year, they would afford us neither pleasure nor repose. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ; and all play and no work makes him a very bad boy. I LATELY sat at the feet of a veteran ex-legislator while traveling on the cars.... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 448 sider
...this respect than the illiterate but earnestminded seaman who stood at his side. He knew very well that " all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy;" and he understood well enough that it was good for man, at stated seasons, to raise his mind from the cares... | |
| Mrs. Anderson (Caroline Dorothea), Caroline Dorothea Anderson (Hon.) - 1852 - 296 sider
..." "Still, my dear mother, flowers are very sweet and tempting ; and don't you know another saying, that ' All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ;' and after all, there is no harm in turning the eye towards the broad lands of uncle Melcombe." " Much,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 450 sider
...this respect than the illiterate but earnestminded seaman who stood at his side. He knew very well that " all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy;" and he understood well enough that it was good for man, at stated seasons, to raise his mind from the cares... | |
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