 | John Adams - United States - 1851 - 572 pages
...motives of ambition to excel in arts, trades, and professions, are established in the minds of all men. Until this emulation is introduced, the lazy...thought of ways to preserve their own. They seem rather to study what means of luxury, dissipation, and extravagance they can invent to get rid of it. " The... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1915 - 518 pages
...motives of ambition to excel in arts, trades, and professions, are established in the minds of all men : until this emulation is introduced, the lazy savage holds property in 1 Volume III of the London edition of 1794 is used here. ' John Adams, Life and Works, Vol. VI, p.... | |
 | John Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 580 pages
...strongest motives of ambition to excel in arts, trade, and professions are established in the minds of most men. Until this emulation is introduced, the lazy...trouble for the preservation or acquisition of it." Amazingly, Adams did not see in colonial society what later came to be called the Protestant Ethic,... | |
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... such a degree that nothing but the necessities of hunger, thirst, and other wants equally pressing can stimulate him to action, until education is introduced in civilized societies and the strongest motives of ambition to excel in arts, trades, and... 