 ... random provocations ; they do not take pleasure in the exercise of their faculties for its own sake ; and unless Necessity lays about them with a stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature...  Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers - Page 91by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1877 - 808 pages
...to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious...world is a blank to them. If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open. To see them, you would... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1877 - 854 pages
...to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious...world is a blank to them. If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open. To see them, you would... | |
 | American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious...world is a blank to them. If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open. To see them, you would... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious...world is a blank to them. If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open. To see them, you would... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious...world is a blank to them. If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open. To see them, you would... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious...world is a blank to them. If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open. To see them, you would... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is riot generous enough ; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious...world is a blank to them. If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open. To see them, you would... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotations, Scottish - 1895 - 238 pages
...to such folk : they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the goldmill. TF a person cannot be happy without •^ remaining idle, idle he should remain. It is a revolutionary... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough ; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold• mill. TF a person cannot be happy without remaining idle, idle he should remain. It is a revolutionary... | |
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