Transactions of the Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association, Հատոր 9

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Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association., 1883

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Էջ 96 - And the king answered them roughly : and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, 14 And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Էջ 105 - Our outward life requires them not — Then wherefore had they birth ? — : To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth ; To comfort man — to whisper hope, Whene'er his faith is dim, For who so careth for the flowers . Will much more care for him ! THE CARRION CROW.
Էջ 272 - ... not be comforted ; overwhelmed by the tenderness of the animal, expressed in the mute eloquence of holy nature's universal language, the illustrious statesman for a moment lost his self-possession, and, clasping his arms around the neck of his son's favorite animal, lifted up that voice which had filled the arches of Westminster Hall with the noblest strains that ever echoed within them, and wept aloud. This was seen and...
Էջ 63 - The general condition of American prisoners, in point of education, is low, yet they are not so extremely illiterate as criminals are in many countries, if we except the colored criminals of the South. In Massachusetts, for a period of eight years past, the statistics show very nearly...
Էջ 64 - It is un-American and unadapted to our free institutions. To put the question in the most offensive form, it may be asked, "Would you have policemen drag your children to school?" I answer, "Yes, if it will prevent his dragging them to jail a few years hence.
Էջ 62 - Thus the criminal statistics of France, in 1870, showed that the educated criminals as compared with the entire educated population, were in the proportion of 1 to 9,291 ; while the illiterate criminals were as 1 to 41, compared with the whole number of illiterate persons; thus proving the proportion of criminals in the uneducated classes to be 226 times as great as that of the educated classes.
Էջ 63 - I reply, it ought to. To bring up a child in ignorance is a crime, and should be treated as such. As the most prolific source of criminality, it sbonld be under the ban of legal condemnation and the restraint of legal puuishment. » * * (2) 'It interferes with the liberty of parents.
Էջ 126 - HAPPY the man, whom bounteous gods allow With his own hands paternal grounds to plough ! Like the first golden mortals happy, he, From business and the cares of money free ! No human storms break off, at land, his sleep ; No loud alarms of nature on the deep : From all the cheats of law he lives secure, Nor does th...
Էջ 6 - This Constitution may be altered or amended at any annual meeting of the Society by a vote of twothirds the members present.
Էջ 267 - The wear and tear of hard work, and the injurious effects of a life of luxury and ease, are about equally destructive to him ; and the price he is obliged to pay for his intimacy with man, and the care and attention he receives at his hands, is the loss, in a larger or smaller degree, of the robust health, and the elastic animal spirits, and the abounding and joyous and painless power of motion with which nature endows him. A colt is a happy thing in the beginning — happier than a child. A horse...

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