Rollo At Work: Or, the Way for a Boy to Learn to Be Industrious
Rollo At Work: Or, the Way for a Boy to Learn to Be Industrious
Abbott Jacob
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This comes from the first fault ; for you expect, when you go to work, the kind of pleas- ure you have in play, and when you find you do not obtain it, or meet with any difficulties, you grow impatient, and get tired of what you are doing. "From this follows the third fault — changeablenesSi or want of perseverance. Instead of steadily going forward in the way they commence, boys are very apt to abandon one thing after another, and to try this new way, and that new way, so as to accomplish very... little in any thing." "Do you think I have overcome all these?" said RoUo. "Inpart,^' said his father; "you begin to understand something about them, and to be on your guard against them. But you have only made a bBginning." " Only a beginning ? " said RoUo ; " why, I thought I had learned to work pretty weU-" Digitized by Google ROLLO'S GARDEN. 127 " So you have, for a litde boy ; but it is only a beginning, after all. I don't think you would succeed in persevering steadily, so as to accomplish any serious undertak- ing now." "Why, father, /think I should." " Suppose I should give you the Latin grammar to learn in three months, and tell you that, at the end of that time, I would hear you recite it all at once.
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