This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... the propensity to sleep. "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber--a little folding of the hands to sleep--so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man." Early rising, so far as health and strength allow of it, is unquestionably a bodily habit of great value, and bodily ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... the propensity to sleep. "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber--a little folding of the hands to sleep--so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man." Early rising, so far as health and strength allow of it, is unquestionably a bodily habit of great value, and bodily though it be, it is usually the result of a well ordered and energetic mind. At the rate of a single hour per diem, redeemed from the needless slumbers of the morning, the early riser adds fifteen days, consisting entirely of working hours, to every passing year--a number equal, for all active purposes, to a month of common days. What important economy is here--what an enlargement of opportunity for improving ourselves, for benefiting our fellow-men, and for serving our Creator! What a means of health and usefulness both for body and mind! Yet this desirable practice must not be overstrained. Sound sleep is a blessing which rests, with peculiar force and sweetness, on the eyelids of the young and uncontaminated. The great point in all such matters, is to observe the right medium. The play of nature ought to be at once vigorous and easy; nor will the young Christian give way to sloth, while he bears in mind the apostolic precept, " Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto man." SECTION III. On Good Habits of Art. In the course of the preceding remarks, the subject of good habits of art has been, in some degree, anticipated; for it is obvious that walking, riding, swimming, and the numberless common practices which call into action the quality of kandiness, are all of them arts. Although exer cuted by the body, they require corresponding exertions of the mind, and they are exercised under the...
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