So my new concept was thatmanual labour was undignified, and that it didn't pay.
I saw the wheels of the social machine go around, and I learned that the dignity of manual labour wasn't what I had been told it was by the teachers, preachers, and politicians.
She was still deep in the "Ladies' Manual of Perfect Gentility.
Well, about cards," continued Marian, who was turning over the leaves of the "Manual of Gentility.
It was a book, not new, bound in faded brown; and the title printed on the back was "The Ladies' Manual of Perfect Gentility.
The "Manual of Perfect Gentility" was destined to excite more attention than its donor had intended, in more ways than one.
There are rougher Pathans and Punjabee Mahomedans, as well as Sikhs, who take more readily to heavy skilled manual labour.
Others came into gradual use in the manual operation of writing with rapidity to dictation.
Manual of Elementary Geology (or "Elements," 3d edition) in one vol.
This Manual has had a very great sale in England, and its successive editions have kept pace with the steady progress of geological science.
I have treated of this subject in my Manual of Geology, and still more fully in my Travels in N.
Manual of Geology, a more full account of the action of floating ice and coast-ice, and its bearing on geology, will be found.
See "A Manual of Scandinavian Mythology," by Mr. Grenville Pigott.
To have composed a manual for the education of a prince, and to have persevered through a laborious version, are sufficient evidence that the learned Skelton had his studious days as well as his hours of caustic jocularity.
Bags, baskets and little matted trays were finally decided upon, and Miss Freeland, the manual training teacher who stopped at Norm, found an enthusiastic class ready for her dictation.
She was still fascinated with the ore drill, for Corene had a manual training turn of mind.
To Froebel, life, action, and knowledge were the three notes of one harmonious chord; but he did not advocate manual training merely that children might be kept busy, nor even that technical skill might be acquired.
Take the aggressively self-made man who thinks our general scheme of education unprofitable,--show him the kindergarten plan of manual training.
The emphasis placed upon manual training, especially in its development of the child's creative activity.
Madame Celnart, a recognized authority on etiquette, compiled in 1830 a very curious complete manual of society games recommending them as recreation for business men.
Unless we have a care, manual training, when we have succeeded in getting it into the school, may become as mechanical and unprofitable as much of our mind training has been, and its moral value thus largely missed.
Moments in history there have no doubt been when literature and the manual arts, and even music, have been swept simultaneously along a single stream of ideas and feelings.
If the course of poetry and that of the manual arts have thus run independently throughout almost the whole field of history, those of music and the manual arts have been more widely separated still.
In most of the machines the idea was to arrange a metal arm and hand to hold the chisel with a hammer to strike the blow, and so to imitate the manual process as closely as possible.
On the other hand, it is very possible to take the whole of the shaping or manual group of fine arts together and to pursue their history connectedly throughout the course of civilization.
His example has been to some extent followed in most European countries, and efforts have been made to reunite the functions of artist and craftsman, and to set a limit to the process of differentiation among the various manual arts.
We must look among the lesser or auxiliary arts of the manual or shaping group.
For a general history of the manualor shaping group of arts, C.
In its first form the work consisted of only six chapters, and was intended merely as a brief manual of Christian doctrine.
The high school has a thoroughly equipped manual training department.
In addition to lecturing, she conducted a political magazine, entitled the Manual of American Principles, and was also engaged with Mr. Kneeland in editing the Boston Investigator.
Some devoted themselves to contemplation, prayer, and writing; more to manual labour.
There was call for a compendium, a manualof the matter; and in providing it Paschasius was a master mechanic for his time.
In the same year the revised edition of Dana's Manual gave yet fuller statement and wider diffusion to the generally accepted views as held to-day.
A Short Manualof Analytical Chemistry, Qualitative and Quantitative, Inorganic and Organic.
The Short Manual of Analytical Chemistry,[55] prepared by Mr. John Muter, follows the course of instruction given in the South London School of Pharmacy.
The commencement of the Manual Labor Boarding-School on the Sisseton reserve was an event which indicated progress.
He rearranged the manual so that every movement formed the logical groundwork of the succeeding one.
Being a Complete Manual of Arms for the Use of the Rifled Musket; containing also the Complete Manual of the Sword and Sabre.
A Manual of Military Surgery; or, Hints on the Emergencies of Field, Camp, and Hospital Practice.
A Complete Manual and Drill-Book for the Use of Volunteers and Militia.
He practised the manual of arms in his own room, until his dexterous precision was something akin to the sleight of a juggler.
Old soldiers found that they rattled through the manual twice as alert as ever before.
By modifying our agricultural methods so that preference is given to those which demand the least proportion of manual labor.
By multiplying the machines which replace manual labor, 2.
My natural temperament was melancholy, and while I was taking these amusements, my heart leapt up with joy, and I found that I could work better and with far greater mastery than when I spent my whole time in study and manual labour.
Besides rendering the machine independent of manual [Pg072] superintendence, this process conferred upon it much greater regularity of performance than any manual superintendence could ensure.
Others found their vocation in manual labour in the fields or workshops; while a certain number devoted themselves to literary work in the cloister.
In orders in which manual labour played a large part—the Cistercian and Premonstratensian, for example—special portions of the day were set aside for such work.
He was taught a few prayers and psalms by heart, but his business was manual labour in the convent workshops, or in its fields and granges.
The city is doing more in the line of manual training than is done in any other part of the county.
A new three-fourths reduction of manual work: in all, a reduction of human labor by fifteen-sixteenths.
What infinite art, what hypocrisy, in his relations with the manual laborer!
But reduction of manual labor is synonymous also with restriction of market, since, if the producer earns less, he will buy less.
See Guerike's "Manual of the Antiquities of the Church," by Morrison, p.
It would appear from Celsus that not a few of the Church teachers in the second century supported themselves by manual labour.
They were excellent in the same sense as that in which the drill of the manual of arms was excellent, or the squad exercises given to recruits.
A Manualfor the Information of Officers and Members of Legislatures, Conventions, Societies, etc.
