 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest things are worth looTcing at — even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animal* Read good books, not forgetting... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1858 - 456 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest...at — even stones and weeds, and the most familiar ni.imals. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all: tliere is more true philosophy in the Bible... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1858 - 440 pages
...unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your lei sure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to maks a right use of your eyes : the commonest things are...worth looking at — even stones and weeds, and the m;jst familiar ardmals. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all : (here is more true philosophy... | |
 | California State Teachers' Institute - Education - 1861 - 498 pages
...spirit in consonance with the following precept of Hugh Miller, the famous self-taught Geologist : ' Learn to make a right use of your eyes; the commonest things are worth looking at — even the stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals.' If the general mode of edueation were changed... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1862 - 354 pages
...your conscience clear, your curiosity fresh, and embrace every opportunity of cultivating your minds. Learn to make a right use of your eyes ; the commonest...even- stones and weeds and the most familiar animals. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all ; there is more true philosophy in the Bible than in... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1865 - 426 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest...worth looking at, — even stones and weeds, and the mo::t familiar animals. Head good books, not forgetting the beat of all : there is more true philosophy... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 454 pages
...unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make u right use of your eyes : the commonest things are...even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all : I here is more true philosophy in the Bible than... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - Human physiology - 1865 - 468 pages
...spirit in consonance with the following precept of Hugh Miller, the famous selftaught geologist. " Learn to make a right use of your eyes ; the commonest...are worth looking at — even stones and weeds, *and tho most familiar animals." As it is now, no one becomes a naturalist early in life, except in spite... | |
 | 1881 - 262 pages
...in the daily life is the prime wisdom." I commend to our farmers' boys the advice given to youth by Hugh Miller : " Learn to make a right use of your...commonest things are worth looking at, even stones, weeds and the most familiar animals. One of the best schools I ever attended was the miscellany of... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1873 - 486 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest...looking at, — even stones and weeds, and the most fa.Ttii1ia.r a.Tnnria.1a. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all : there is more true philosophy... | |
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Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest things are worth looking at — even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals. 
