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using the phrase , is applied to some person of the male sex , with the manners of an ape sweetly engrafted on those of a sixth-rate dancing master—a grin—a perpetual bending of the back , and a constant caricature of politeness , makes " quite the gentleman ; " and if the individual he tall and thin , oh ! dear , what a love he is , then , and quite the gentleman . Let our fair readers hold in abomination the ridiculous phrase , and recollect that to define gentility is about as easy a process to those
who generally affect to do so as it would be to them to square the circle . True gentlemanly bearing consists neither in grinning , in bowing , nor in cringing , nor in paying vapid compliments without point : and whenever we hear of any one who is , previous to our introduction to him , described by some fussy old lady as quite the gentleman , we always expect to see some one ivho is quite the puppy , and quite the fool . We have never yet been disappointed .
EDUCATION . —The word education means to draw forth the faculties , and the real educator will be the rain and sunshine , the light and the warmth , to a little child ' s mind . A rose-tree would not grow , nor would the bud open , unless they were watered by the rain and cheered by the sunshine ; neither would the mind of a little child come into blossom without something to draw it forth . That something is education . Have you not sometimes seen a little worm eating the
rosebud away , and thus destroying it before it had time to blossom ? Just as that worm would destroy the bud , so does sin destroy the human soul . Did you ever see a rose-bush that had been neglected by the gardener , with its rude and crooked shoots entangled and massed with weeds , and choked by briars , nettles , and thorns ? Such is the state of a little child without education ; its mind is choked with evil , and the soulthe germ of future existenceis cramped in its noble ies ancl
, , energ its high desires , and cannot spring into the light and goodness . But education , like a gardener , comes and prunes the little tree , cuts off the straggling branches , digs about its roots , destroys the noxious weeds , trains the young plant into elegance of form , sustains and comforts it , and then it blossoms more beautifull y , and bears more plentifully , than ever . —Eliza Cook ' s Journal .
EACH MAN HAS HIS SPECIAL TALENT . —There is no power of expansion in men . Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas , which they never pass or exceed . They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power , but they never take the single step that would bring them there . A man is like a bit of Labrador spar , which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand , until you come to a particular angle ; then it shows deep and beautiful colours . There is
no adaptation of universal applicability in men , but each has his special talent ; and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselues where and when that turn shall be oftenest practised . — R . W . Emerson .
THE BEE . — That within so small a body should be contained apparatus for converting the " virtuous sweets" which it collects into one kind of nourishment for itself , another for the common brood , a third for the royal , glue for its carpentry , wax for its cells , poiton for its enemies , honey for its master , with a proboscis almost as long as tbe body itself , microscopic in its several parts , telescopic in its mode of action , with a sting so infinitely sharp that , were it magnified by the same glass which makes a needle ' s point seem a quarter of an inch , it
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Collectanea.
using the phrase , is applied to some person of the male sex , with the manners of an ape sweetly engrafted on those of a sixth-rate dancing master—a grin—a perpetual bending of the back , and a constant caricature of politeness , makes " quite the gentleman ; " and if the individual he tall and thin , oh ! dear , what a love he is , then , and quite the gentleman . Let our fair readers hold in abomination the ridiculous phrase , and recollect that to define gentility is about as easy a process to those
who generally affect to do so as it would be to them to square the circle . True gentlemanly bearing consists neither in grinning , in bowing , nor in cringing , nor in paying vapid compliments without point : and whenever we hear of any one who is , previous to our introduction to him , described by some fussy old lady as quite the gentleman , we always expect to see some one ivho is quite the puppy , and quite the fool . We have never yet been disappointed .
EDUCATION . —The word education means to draw forth the faculties , and the real educator will be the rain and sunshine , the light and the warmth , to a little child ' s mind . A rose-tree would not grow , nor would the bud open , unless they were watered by the rain and cheered by the sunshine ; neither would the mind of a little child come into blossom without something to draw it forth . That something is education . Have you not sometimes seen a little worm eating the
rosebud away , and thus destroying it before it had time to blossom ? Just as that worm would destroy the bud , so does sin destroy the human soul . Did you ever see a rose-bush that had been neglected by the gardener , with its rude and crooked shoots entangled and massed with weeds , and choked by briars , nettles , and thorns ? Such is the state of a little child without education ; its mind is choked with evil , and the soulthe germ of future existenceis cramped in its noble ies ancl
, , energ its high desires , and cannot spring into the light and goodness . But education , like a gardener , comes and prunes the little tree , cuts off the straggling branches , digs about its roots , destroys the noxious weeds , trains the young plant into elegance of form , sustains and comforts it , and then it blossoms more beautifull y , and bears more plentifully , than ever . —Eliza Cook ' s Journal .
EACH MAN HAS HIS SPECIAL TALENT . —There is no power of expansion in men . Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas , which they never pass or exceed . They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power , but they never take the single step that would bring them there . A man is like a bit of Labrador spar , which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand , until you come to a particular angle ; then it shows deep and beautiful colours . There is
no adaptation of universal applicability in men , but each has his special talent ; and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselues where and when that turn shall be oftenest practised . — R . W . Emerson .
THE BEE . — That within so small a body should be contained apparatus for converting the " virtuous sweets" which it collects into one kind of nourishment for itself , another for the common brood , a third for the royal , glue for its carpentry , wax for its cells , poiton for its enemies , honey for its master , with a proboscis almost as long as tbe body itself , microscopic in its several parts , telescopic in its mode of action , with a sting so infinitely sharp that , were it magnified by the same glass which makes a needle ' s point seem a quarter of an inch , it