Curiosities of Olden TimesBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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Curiosities of Olden Times
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Curiosities and wonders
To this speech of Dr. Schupp, Paullini adds a few pertinent remarks. “The
lad I was telling you about,” he says, “had a hankering after tailoring.
Well, tailoring is an honourable and useful profession. Was not Moses
bidden, ‘Thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory
and for beauty. And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted, whom
I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron
garments.’ Tailors filled with the spirit of wisdom! Why despise the craft
which God has honoured?”
It must be allowed that there is sense in this little digression.
Doubtless it would be well if not only those destined for the ministry,
but all the sons of the higher classes of society, were taught some manual
employment in addition to the cultivation of their intellectual faculties.
That our grammar schools should take the hint is not to be anticipated;
masters and governors have the same implicit confidence in classic studies
as the universal panacea that Dr. Paullini professes for the rod and Dr.
Sangrado for cold water and blood-letting. I do not dispute the fact that
the most useful knowledge for a lad to acquire who is destined for
colonial farming, or for a mercantile life at home, is Greek prosody; but
I suggest that an acquaintance with carpentering, land-surveying, or
book-keeping might be found advantageous in a secondary degree.
Lockjaw is to be treated in the same manner, asserts our author, and he
tells an amusing anecdote on the subject from Volquard Iversen.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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