Lectures on Mental and Moral CultureA.S. Barnes & Company, 1869 - 319 páginas |
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... methods of governing and in- teresting scholars , which the best instructors have employed are unknown to him , and he must follow on the old beaten track , which those who taught him employed . But if his mind be thoroughly imbued with ...
... methods of governing and in- teresting scholars , which the best instructors have employed are unknown to him , and he must follow on the old beaten track , which those who taught him employed . But if his mind be thoroughly imbued with ...
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... methods which are practiced by our most distinguished educators . He should , in a word , acquaint himself with the last best thoughts which the world has produced upon the subject , and thus keep even with the times . Finally , the ...
... methods which are practiced by our most distinguished educators . He should , in a word , acquaint himself with the last best thoughts which the world has produced upon the subject , and thus keep even with the times . Finally , the ...
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... method peculiar to the audience whom he addresses . All his great efforts are marked with that plain but lofty style , which identify it as the stately steppings of his giant mind ; and it is equally characterized by a pathos and ...
... method peculiar to the audience whom he addresses . All his great efforts are marked with that plain but lofty style , which identify it as the stately steppings of his giant mind ; and it is equally characterized by a pathos and ...
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... method yields a cer- tain amount of advantage . The pupil learns the de- rivation of many words , and gets a discipline of the memory and other faculties . But these are merely the incidental results , and can be attained much more ...
... method yields a cer- tain amount of advantage . The pupil learns the de- rivation of many words , and gets a discipline of the memory and other faculties . But these are merely the incidental results , and can be attained much more ...
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... order to attain it . The ghost of a good lady once appeared to her very dear friend , and on being asked if she was happy , replied that she had but one de- Mathematics . Skill of the teacher . Old method . 174 THE STUDY.
... order to attain it . The ghost of a good lady once appeared to her very dear friend , and on being asked if she was happy , replied that she had but one de- Mathematics . Skill of the teacher . Old method . 174 THE STUDY.
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Página 149 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Página 318 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 150 - I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood.
Página 145 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 279 - For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 284 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Página 109 - Sir, you may destroy this little institution ; it is weak; it is in your hands ! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out. But, if you do so, you must carry through your work! You must extinguish, one after another, all those greater lights of science which, for more than a century, have thrown their radiance over our land!
Página 111 - I know not how others may feel,' (glancing at the opponents of the College before him,) ' but, for myself, when I see my Alma Mater surrounded, like Caesar in the senatehouse, by those who are reiterating stab upon stab, I would not, for this right hand, have her turn to me, and say, Et tu quoque mi fili ! And thou too, my son !'
Página 145 - ... any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I...
Página 279 - And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other ; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.