Thoughts on Educational Topics and InstitutionsPhillips, Sampson, 1859 - 365 sivua |
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... progress of events . Bailey says learning is " skill in languages or sciences . " To this , Walker adds what he calls " literature , " and " skill in anything , good or bad . " Dr. Webster enlarges the meaning of the word still more ...
... progress of events . Bailey says learning is " skill in languages or sciences . " To this , Walker adds what he calls " literature , " and " skill in anything , good or bad . " Dr. Webster enlarges the meaning of the word still more ...
Sivu 19
... progress , and demands aliment from our public libraries . In the selection of books there is a wide range , from the trashy productions of the fifth- rate novelist , to stately history and exact science . Nature and Value of Learning . 19.
... progress , and demands aliment from our public libraries . In the selection of books there is a wide range , from the trashy productions of the fifth- rate novelist , to stately history and exact science . Nature and Value of Learning . 19.
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... progress will be appreciable , and , most likely , considerable . If , on the other hand , each one plods by himself , the sum of professional knowledge cannot be increased , and is likely to be diminished . The moral of the parable of ...
... progress will be appreciable , and , most likely , considerable . If , on the other hand , each one plods by himself , the sum of professional knowledge cannot be increased , and is likely to be diminished . The moral of the parable of ...
Sivu 43
... progress is neglected , some evil seed , it may be , is sown , for which this generation must answer to all the successions of men . But let us not yield to the prejudice , though sanctioned by custom , that learning unfits men for the ...
... progress is neglected , some evil seed , it may be , is sown , for which this generation must answer to all the successions of men . But let us not yield to the prejudice , though sanctioned by custom , that learning unfits men for the ...
Sivu 44
... progress , even in New England ; an obstacle which may not be overcome without delay and conflict , in many states of this Union ; and especially in Great Britain is it an obstacle in the way of those who demand a system of universal ...
... progress , even in New England ; an obstacle which may not be overcome without delay and conflict , in many states of this Union ; and especially in Great Britain is it an obstacle in the way of those who demand a system of universal ...
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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.