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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 423
1905
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 8

William Cobbett - 1805 - 544 pages
...perform so much more work " than slaves is obvious ; because they feel, " that they work for themselves; and, ac" cording as their profit, or their prospect...late, have taken care to reserve a certain, and not inconsiderable, portion of die year, to be devoted to rest, leisure, and amusement ; and, the most...
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Fireside Education ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 408 pages
...a duty, yet labor should have its limits. It is not only true of children, but of grown-up people, that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." And is it not matter of fact that many of the good people of our country run into the error of excessive...
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Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..

William Martin - 1878 - 344 pages
...health, of the mens sana in corpore sano (or, as it may be literally translated in the vernacular, that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"), and he insisted that some hours should be daily robbed from the piano for the cultivation of robust exercises,...
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The Mechanic's organ, or, Journal for young men and women [afterw.] Voice of ...

384 pages
...supply the places of the aquatic plants, nor the aquatic plants those of the heaths. KN It is a common saying, that ''all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ;" and however useful it maybe, it is to be feared, that a book which gives only a dry routine of instruction...
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The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers

James Fenimore Cooper - 1849 - 448 pages
...this respect than the illiterate but earnestminded seaman who stood at his side. . He knew very well that " all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy;" and he understood well enough that it was good for man, at stated seasons, to raise his mind from the cares...
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The Three Paths, Or, Truth, Vanity, and Profession

Mrs. Anderson (Caroline Dorothea), Caroline Dorothea Anderson (Hon.) - 1852 - 296 pages
...roses.' " "Still, my dear mother, flowers are very sweet and tempting ; and don't you know another saying, that ' All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ;' and after all, there is no harm in turning the eye towards the broad lands of uncle Melcombe." " Much,...
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The Sea Lions: Or, The Lost Sealers, Volumes 1-2

James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 450 pages
...this respect than the illiterate but earnestminded seaman who stood at his side. He knew very well that " all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy;" and he understood well enough that it was good for man, at stated seasons, to raise his mind from the cares...
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Cooper's Novels, Volume 10

James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 448 pages
...this respect than the illiterate but earnestminded seaman who stood at his side. He knew very well that " all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy;" and he understood well enough that it was good for man, at stated seasons, to raise his mind from the cares...
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Cooper's Works, Volume 32

James Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 460 pages
...this respect than the illiterate but earnestminded seaman who stood at his side. He knew very well that " all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy;" and he understood well enough that it was good for man, at stated seasons, to raise his mind from the cares...
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Sea lions

James Fenimore Cooper - 1856 - 504 pages
...this respect than the illiterate but earnest-minded seaman who stood at his side. He knew very well that " all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy ;" and he understood well enough that it was good for man, at stated seasons, to raise his mind from the cares...
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