Every member of the congregation of Israel must labour, as God has appointed, at some handicraft or profession to provide for his home.
The handicraft and skill displayed in the buildings and sculptures of the long-lost cities of Nineveh, Babylon, and Troy, have descended to the present time.
Guthrie, in his book on Ragged Schools, published in 1860, said: "How are our manufacturing and handicraft youth situated?
These children are all cloathed at the expence of the trustees and subscribers; and when they have been fully taught to read, write, and cast accompts, they are then either put out to services, or to some handicraft trade.
The reader who has followed us up to this point will have observed that handicraft labour was the first stage of the development of human power, and that machinery has been its last and highest.
The numerous exquisite specimens of his handicraft which exist in our old gateways, church doors, altar railings, and ornamented dogs and andirons, still serve as types for continual reproduction.
As early as eight years of age, his mother still impressing upon her boys the necessity of learning to work, John gathered courage to say to her that he wished to leave home and apprentice himself to some handicraft business.
To produce work by handicraft means a life of unremitting toil for the craftsman, and even then the cost of the finished article is so great, if the worker is to get but a very moderate return, that only the wealthy could buy it.
Polished iron, glittering brass, and shining mahogany, testify to the excellence of Lancashire handicraft in 1853, the date of the engines.
Natives with karosses (skins of wild beasts) and native-made souvenirs surrounded the train when stops were made, spreading their wares on the ground and holding the objects of native handicraft to the gaze of the passengers.
The carving on the enclosures and doors is good, but the more noted is the handicraft of Chinese.
The joint is self-wedging and will be of interest to Handicraft Instructors.
Although intended for the practical man, and not professing to be a graded course of "educational woodwork," the Volume is one which Handicraft Instructors will find of the greatest value in conducting woodwork classes.
One of the speakers had declared that "the boys educated in public elementary schools scorned all handicraft work, and wanted to be clerks, while girls in like-manner scorned all domestic service.
No longer rise the walls begun, nor play the youth this while In arms, or fashion havens forth, or ramparts of the war: Broken is all that handicraft and mastery; idle are The mighty threatenings of the walls and engines wrought heaven high.
Not otherwise that Might of Fire, no sluggard more than she, To win his art and handicraft from that soft bed arose.
The will of the deceased, however, was in his eyes sacred; and it was, moreover, at any rate certain that Jonathan with his weakly body could not be trained up to any handicraft that made any very large demand upon physical strength.
Merely out of love for my beautiful handicraft I picked out all my best stones and gladly set to work upon them, exercising more industry and care over them than I had ever done over any stones before.
A grey-headed old foreman, recognising the strangers' handicraft from their clothing, stepped up to them without more ado, and asked Wacht if he understood how to manage the machine any better since he looked so cunning about it.
Certainly, their work is the most artistic handicraft done by Indians in America to-day.
Besides, you will learn that America has her own Egypt and her own Arabia and her own Persia in racial type and in handicraft and in antiquity; and that fact is worth taking home with you.
The population grew and spread, and the handicraft arts reached a stage of impressive proficiency.
Their outstanding handicraft was basketry, as far as remaining evidence shows.
Indeed, the danger of all these lofty claims for handicraft is simply that they show a desire to give crafts the province and motive of arts such as poetry, painting and sculpture.
Common tombstones they are, most of them, the work not of famous artists but of simple handicraftsmen, only they were wrought in days when every handicraft was an art.
The old small handicraft units of India and China provide similar instances of a traditional repetition of production in the same forms and on the same scale, handed down from generation to generation.
Handicraft in its historical beginnings was a subsidiary occupation, a mere appendage to agriculture in civilised and settled societies.
Therefore we have thought it best to drop the word Handicraft and issue the new edition under the more appropriate title, "Recreations for Girls.
BEARD Handicraft and Recreation for Girls =With over 700 illustrations by the Authors= =8vo.
It is not equally divided, for handicraft is so much more like play than work, and is so entertaining in itself, we find difficulty in drawing a distinct line between that and recreation.
The distinctions between town and country in relation to the practice of any handicraft trade is abolished.
People of handicraft and yeomen, however, are allowed to wear clothing worth forty shillings, but not silk, silver, nor precious stones.
They had lost the art of handicraft themselves, but some still appreciated it and were able to pay for it.
It naturally followed that they would have brought handicraft to a high perfection.
In short, with our great geniuses handicraft was no obstacle to abstract researches--it rather favored them.
We fully recognize the necessity of specialization of knowledge, but we maintain that specialization must follow general education, and that general education must be given in science and handicraft alike.
So that there is no issue out of the difficulty unless scientific education and handicraft are combined together--unless integration of knowledge takes the place of the present divisions.
The student was not sent to a workshop to learn some special handicraft and to earn his existence as soon as possible, but the teaching of technical skill was prosecuted--according to a scheme elaborated by the founder of the school, M.
My mother married a second time, a young handicraftsman; but his family, who also belonged to the handicraft class, thought that he had married below himself, and neither my mother nor myself were permitted to visit them.
It was to me a matter of indifference what handicraft trade I learned,--I only should make use of it to keep life within me in Copenhagen.
Our young people are now ready for games more skillful and coöperative, and handicraft more elaborate and involving a finer finish.
