That bit of old wisdom which says that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is in terms of our new psychological wisdom, absolutely true. London Society - Page 448edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
| Sir Alexander Morison - Mental illness - 1848 - 600 pages
...middling capacity, and sometimes has a tendency to insanity. The old and well-known saying, therefore, that "all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy," is founded upon just observation. The correction of slight faults, by excessive severity, has a similarly... | |
| Children with social disabilities - 1857 - 494 pages
...juvenile humanity. There is always more or less of truth in popular sayings, and the one that informs us that " All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is not an exception. A certain amount of recreation is requisite for every one, and that which in childhood... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1849 - 612 pages
...activity and habitual good health, provided proper attention is paid to physical culture. The old maxim that " all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is quite true. There is health of mind in innocent hilarity. There is health in bodily sports which combine... | |
| James Pycroft - Cricket - 1865 - 272 pages
...CAFFYN ... ,, ,, 106 HAYWARD. CARPENTER ,, „ 176 CEICKETANA. ' Idle hours ' not idly spent. CHAPTER I. THAT 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,'...world has become aware that a vitiated atmosphere has anything to do with the bills of mortality.' It is only recently that those who ' minister to the mind... | |
| Harriet Frances Thynne (lady Charles.) - 1867 - 336 pages
...and the teaching which life alone can give to modify the crudeness of his opinions. The old saying that " all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy " is true, though Eustace entirely ignored it. " I don't believe that any one does really like work except... | |
| Thomas Wright - Great Britain - 1867 - 298 pages
...according to their own ideas on the subject much greater holiday-makers than any other section of society. That " all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is an adage in the truth of which most people believe. There are still a few individuals engaged in the... | |
| 1872 - 598 pages
...industrial pursuits into our elementary schools, and shows very clearly that the old nursery rhyme, that "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is even more applicable in the present day than it was fifty years ago. The education in practical life... | |
| Christian fiction, English - 1877 - 298 pages
...through strife or vain-glory. from a Photograph by MYULSTD. ] FOB at ВY THE EDITOR. IH AT "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is one of the many old proverbs of which modern science is daily _ showing the why and the wherefore. The busy nineteenth century was in danger of forgetting it. "... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1879 - 794 pages
...death-warrant of all that is opposed to the freedom of the land. ARTHUR ARNOLD. HEALTH AND RECREATION. THAT all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy is one of those common sayings which we seem bound to accept, whether we like it or not. It is a truthful saying... | |
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