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"A worthy man, but tedious," he said, "wonderfully well preserved in body, that is; his mind has entirely gone to pieces; he has got some dismal notions in his head about the condition of the agricultural poor; he thinks they want uplifting! Now I am all for the due subordination of classes.
Charles Barnard, a man of positive spiritual genius in charming and uplifting the children of the poor and debased." Letters from Miss Dix at this period show that she had a sensitive nature, easily wrought upon, now inflamed to action and now melted to tears. "You say that I weep easily.
He had insensibly drawn nearer to her as he spoke; meanwhile Von Glauben, with a disconsolate air, had joined Sir Roger de Launay, who, by an enquiring look and anxious uplifting of his eyebrows, dumbly asked what was to be the upshot of this affair, only to receive a dismal shake of the head in reply.
Do you believe in a national system of industrial and vocational schools? Why are experts needed particularly in a democracy? The Citizen Must See to It that this Great Educative Influence of His Community Is Uplifting in Nature
It is not meant that industrial education shall replace all other forms of education, but rather that it shall be added to literary education in order to enrich the educational process; and it may be remarked also that industrial training, while of itself having a strong uplifting moral influence, is not sufficient to socialize without explicit moral teaching being also added thereto.
But in spite of it all, Kai Bok-su had to confess that never in the music of his homeland or in the more finished harmonies of Europe, had he heard anything so grandly uplifting as when those newly-freed people stood up in their idol temple and with heart and soul and voice unitedly poured forth in thunderous volume of praise the great command: All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice.
I have Something at least is due to me: Ask any lady: there are clergymen, I know, clergymen who are for uplifting quite right, but not associating: to call one of them a friend! Ask any lady, any! Your mother... 'I beg you will not distress my mother, said Nesta. 'I beg to know whether this correspondence is to continue? said Dudley. 'All my life, if I do not feel dishonoured by it.
I mean that I'm stagnating utterly mentally, morally, and physically. I'm degenerating. My life is a feminine replica of the one I suggested to you. I'm wearied to death of it of killing time aimlessly, of playing at literature, at charity, at uplifting people who don't want to be uplifted. And there's nothing different ahead. Must I play at living until I die?"
There are in this country some labor unions which have habitually, and other labor unions which have often, been among the most effective agents in working for good citizenship and for uplifting the condition of those whose welfare should be closest to our hearts.
"Lost, a lank Yankee schoolmaster," quoth he, uplifting his voice after the manner of the town crier; "supposed to have been blown out of Doctor Grim's window, or perhaps have ridden off astride of a humble- bee." "It is not pretty to laugh in that way, Doctor Grim," said little Elsie, looking into his face, with a grave shake of her head. "And why not, you saucy little witch?" said the Doctor.
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