Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays
The book Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays was written by author Here you can read free online of Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays a good or bad book?
Where can I read Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays for free?
In our eReader you can find the full English version of the book. Read Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays Online - link to read the book on full screen. Our eReader also allows you to upload and read Pdf, Txt, ePub and fb2 books. In the Mini eReder on the page below you can quickly view all pages of the book - Read Book Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays
In our eReader you can find the full English version of the book. Read Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays Online - link to read the book on full screen. Our eReader also allows you to upload and read Pdf, Txt, ePub and fb2 books. In the Mini eReder on the page below you can quickly view all pages of the book - Read Book Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays
What reading level is Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This desire for distinction seems to run through the whole social body, as a kind of moral scrofula, developing itself in various ways, accord- ing to circumstances and peculiarities of constitution. The consequence is that politics have become the pursuit of small men, and we no longer have an opportunity to put the best men into office. The scramble for place among fools is so great and so successful, that men of dignity and modesty retire from the field in disgust. Everybody wants to " be so...mething, " and in order to be something, everbody must leave his proper place in the world, and assume a position which God never intended he should fill. Look in upon a State legislature once, and you will find sufficient illustration of my meaning. Not one man in five of the whole number possesses the first qualification for making the laws of a State, and half of them never read the constitution of the country. I mean no contempt for the good, honest men of whom our State legislatures are principally composed, but I wish simply to say that there is nothing in their qual- ity of mind, habits of thought, intellectual power, or style of pursuits that fits them for the great and mo- mentous functions of legislation.
What to read after Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by J G Josiah Gilbert Holland to read onlineMoreLess
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This desire for distinction seems to run through the whole social body, as a kind of moral scrofula, developing itself in various ways, accord- ing to circumstances and peculiarities of constitution. The consequence is that politics have become the pursuit of small men, and we no longer have an opportunity to put the best men into office. The scramble for place among fools is so great and so successful, that men of dignity and modesty retire from the field in disgust. Everybody wants to " be so...mething, " and in order to be something, everbody must leave his proper place in the world, and assume a position which God never intended he should fill. Look in upon a State legislature once, and you will find sufficient illustration of my meaning. Not one man in five of the whole number possesses the first qualification for making the laws of a State, and half of them never read the constitution of the country. I mean no contempt for the good, honest men of whom our State legislatures are principally composed, but I wish simply to say that there is nothing in their qual- ity of mind, habits of thought, intellectual power, or style of pursuits that fits them for the great and mo- mentous functions of legislation.
What to read after Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by J G Josiah Gilbert Holland to read onlineMoreLess
Read book Lessons in Life a Series of Familiar Essays for free
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
9 / 10
User Reviews: