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Their legitimate object is, or should be, not to develope the intellect by over-working the tender brain, but to promote cheerfulness and health and love and happiness, by well contrived amusements, conducted as much as possible in the open air; and by unremitting efforts to elicit and direct the affections. Infant schools should repress rather than encourage the hard study of books.
All you need to do is to work; work hard, do not be afraid of over-working and you will make your mark." It will be easily understood that these words from a man whom he held in high respect were enough to fix the resolution of James.
It was this excitement that he must cure, and as there are many remedies for insomnia, he tried those which, it seemed to him, were suitable to his case; but bromide of potassium, in spite of its hypnotic properties, produced no more effect than the over-working of the brain and body.
You've been over-working yourself a bit burning the candle at both ends, eh?" "Hardly at both ends," corrected Vellacott, with a ready smile which entirely transformed his face. "Hardly at both ends at one end in a draught, perhaps." "Ha, ha! Very good," chimed in Mr. Morgan the irrepressible.
Now, pray take care of your health and spirits: take exercise and amusement, and remember that there is not the least hurry in the world for these things. If they are not finished till Midsummer, it will be of much less consequence than your over-working yourselves. I do not send you the money. I can get your materials so very cheap that the carriage of them will answer again.
The anxiety to produce scholars who will distinguish themselves in public examinations, and thereby advertise the school, invariably leads the schoolmaster to cram and stuff the brains of the brightest and most forward boys. There is special danger in over-working boys or girls of this type, because the brain is not strong enough to withstand the pressure.
"The dear child works incessantly," she wrote, "but she is very quiet and seems easily tired. She is not as bright as she used to be, and looks very pale, so that I fear she is doing too much, though she says she is perfectly well and happy. We had a call from Mr. John Harrington the other afternoon I think you know him and he seemed quite to think with me that she is over-working herself.
But tell me what ails him: has he been over-working, or is it the results of his illness?" Bessie was very earnest to know all there was to be known. "Work is not to blame: the lad was always more or less delicate, though his frame was so powerful," Mr. Carnegie said with gravity. "He is out of spirits, and he has had a warning to beware of the family complaint.
I grant, indeed, that slaves are some times, by half-feeding, half-clothing, over-working and stripes, reduced so low, that they are turned out as unfit for service, and left to perish in the woods, or expire on a dunghill.
"I do wish you would pay as much attention to your health as you do to business. You are not looking well. Have you forgotten what the doctor told you about over-working?" "No, my dear; I remember his advice; but he does not know what a responsibility rests upon me as the President of the Paradise Coal Company.
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