Thoughts on Educational Topics and InstitutionsPhillips, Sampson, 1859 - 365 sivua |
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... present interest ; a sermon , address , or speech , from a leading mind of the country or the world ; letters from various quarters of the globe ; extracts from established literary and scientific jour- nals ; original essays upon ...
... present interest ; a sermon , address , or speech , from a leading mind of the country or the world ; letters from various quarters of the globe ; extracts from established literary and scientific jour- nals ; original essays upon ...
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... person or property be better respected in New York or Boston , if the most ignorant population of the world could be substituted for the present inhab- itants of those cities ? The business nerves of men 32 Nature and Value of Learning .
... person or property be better respected in New York or Boston , if the most ignorant population of the world could be substituted for the present inhab- itants of those cities ? The business nerves of men 32 Nature and Value of Learning .
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... presents divisions based upon the factitious distinctions of birth and fortune ? Most certainly these questions indicate his opinions , as they indi- cate the opinions of those who cheered him , and as they also indicate the opinions of ...
... presents divisions based upon the factitious distinctions of birth and fortune ? Most certainly these questions indicate his opinions , as they indi- cate the opinions of those who cheered him , and as they also indicate the opinions of ...
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... present and the condition that would follow the abandon- ment of our system of public instruction . There are general complaints that the manners of children and youth have changed within thirty or fifty years ; that age and station do ...
... present and the condition that would follow the abandon- ment of our system of public instruction . There are general complaints that the manners of children and youth have changed within thirty or fifty years ; that age and station do ...
Sivu 51
... present there may be more real respect for station , and deference for age and virtue , than are exhibited in juvenile life . In this explanation , if it be true , there is matter for serious thought ; but I should not deem it wise to ...
... present there may be more real respect for station , and deference for age and virtue , than are exhibited in juvenile life . In this explanation , if it be true , there is matter for serious thought ; but I should not deem it wise to ...
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Sivu 258 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Sivu 9 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Sivu 21 - A mind well skilled to find, or forge a fault ; A turn for punning — call it Attic salt ; To JEFFREY go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet...
Sivu 73 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Sivu 173 - In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra.
Sivu 19 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Sivu 180 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Sivu 300 - Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Sivu 271 - A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent heat, as well as radiant light, with power to enkindle the common mass of human mind ; so that when It glimmers, in its own decay, and finally goes out in death, no night follows...
Sivu 94 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.