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  • “Henceforth, my friend,” said he, “moderate your zeal in hurrying others to the gallows; be not too certain of your safety, even though you should have the law on your side; and above all take care how you play off your schoolcraft another time upon an old soldier.”

    The Alhambra 2002

  • “Henceforth, my friend,” said he, “moderate your zeal in hurrying others to the gallows; be not too certain of your safety, even though you should have the law on your side; and above all take care how you play off your schoolcraft another time upon an old soldier.”

    The Alhambra 2002

  • "Henceforth, my friend," said he, "moderate your zeal in hurrying others to the gallows; be not too certain of your own safety, even though you should have the law on your side; and, above all, take care how you play off your schoolcraft another time upon an old soldier."

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • They are mere phantoms or puppets of schoolcraft, laboriously put together by a learning drawn from old folios.

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • And yet this vow of fidelity and devotion to the spirit of schoolcraft would be an empty form without the two complementary vows that give it worth and meaning.

    Craftsmanship in Teaching William Chandler Bagley 1910

  • And I should like this evening to imagine that these graduates are undergoing an analogous initiation into the privileges and duties of schoolcraft, and that these vows which I shall enumerate, embody some of the ideals that govern the work of that craft.

    Craftsmanship in Teaching William Chandler Bagley 1910

  • There are some men to whom schoolcraft is a mistress.

    Craftsmanship in Teaching William Chandler Bagley 1910

  • On the whole, I can see no reason why I should not encourage young men to enter the service of schoolcraft.

    Craftsmanship in Teaching William Chandler Bagley 1910

  • To know that any life which does not provide the opportunities for service is not worth the living, and that any life, however humble, that does provide these opportunities is rich beyond the reach of earthly rewards, -- this is the first lesson that the tyro in schoolcraft must learn, be he sixteen or sixty-five.

    Craftsmanship in Teaching William Chandler Bagley 1910

  • Plato, and has been vaguely voiced at intervals down through the centuries; but its complete establishment came only as an indirect issue of the great scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century, and its application to the problems of practical schoolcraft and its dissemination through the rank and file of teachers awaited the dawn of the twentieth century.

    Craftsmanship in Teaching William Chandler Bagley 1910

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