 ... whether it is so or not depends on the use we make of it. The same, however, might be said of most -other opportunities and privileges ; Knowledge and Strength, Beauty and Skill, may all be abused ; if we neglect or misuse them we are worse off than...  The Journal of the National Education Association - Page 149by National Education Association of the United States - 1923Full view - About this book
 | John Beauchamp Jones - Fiction - 1866 - 484 pages
...here, by orders from high authority; and it is said Gen. Ransom finds himself merely an instrument in the hands of those who do not know how to use him skillfully. The enemy is said'to have made a bridge across the James River, either to come on the... | |
 | John Beauchamp Jones - History - 1866 - 494 pages
...here, by orders from high authority ; and it is said Gen. Ransom finds himself merely an instrument in the hands of those who do not know how to use him skillfully. The enemy is said to have made a bridge across the James River, either to come on the... | |
 | India - 1878 - 590 pages
...popular, than to rob a rich man of his " money," but then nothing is more illusive than this money in the hands of those who do not know how to use it. Even if it be taken in the shape of hard coin it is quickly spent and lost, disappearing without leaving... | |
 | India - 1878 - 618 pages
...popular, than to rob a rich man of bis " money," but then nothing is more illusive than this money in the hands of those who do not know how to use it. Even if it be taken in the shape of hard coin it is quickly spent and lost, disappearing without leaving... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1877 - 466 pages
...evil consequences will return upon their authors, and prove their loss also. The right of suffrage in the hands of those who do not 'know how to use it, is an injury to its possessors, as well as to those against whom they use it. It is justice to neither... | |
 | Augustus Blandy Wylde - Ethiopia - 1888 - 326 pages
...worked, but as carried out by the Egyptian minor officials, one of the worst means of putting power into the hands of those who do not know how to use it, and to whom it generally means license. For instance, say the local head of the police is told to depute... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 304 pages
...neglect or misuse them we are worse off than if we had never had them. Wealth is only a disadvantage in the hands of those who do not know how to use it. It gives the command of so many other things — leisure, the power of helping others, books, works... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1894 - 358 pages
...neglect or misuse them we are worse off than if we had never had them. Wealth is only a disadvantage in the hands of those who do not know how to use it. It gives the command of so many other things — leisure, the power of helping friends, books, works... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Friendship - 1896 - 90 pages
...neglect or misuse them we are worse off than if we had never had them. Wealth is only a disadvantage in the hands of those who do not know how to use it. It gives the command of so many other things — leisure, the power of helping friends, books, works... | |
 | Medicine - 1911 - 630 pages
...lest it do harm in careless hands. A weapon in the hands of those who know how to use it is safe ; in the hands of those who do not know how to use it, may be dangerous. Let enthusiasm be tempered with doubt, and a full realization of what exploration... | |
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