Lectures on Mental and Moral CultureA.S. Barnes & Company, 1869 - 319 páginas |
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... gifts without granting the means for their improve- ment ? Though we but commence their cultivation in the brief period that is alloted to us in life , we Spiritual improvement our highest duty . tal Dignity of the 14 DIGNITY OF THE.
... gifts without granting the means for their improve- ment ? Though we but commence their cultivation in the brief period that is alloted to us in life , we Spiritual improvement our highest duty . tal Dignity of the 14 DIGNITY OF THE.
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... period of gloom and ignorance suc- ceeded , which was significantly called the dark ages . Generation after generation passed , and we nowhere see any marked achievement of mind . There were no triumphs in literature , in science , in ...
... period of gloom and ignorance suc- ceeded , which was significantly called the dark ages . Generation after generation passed , and we nowhere see any marked achievement of mind . There were no triumphs in literature , in science , in ...
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... period was not far dis- tant when the deeds of the warrior were regarded as mere bold and daring exploits , brutal and bloody in execution , and unimportant in their results , so far as they related to his design , upon the progress of ...
... period was not far dis- tant when the deeds of the warrior were regarded as mere bold and daring exploits , brutal and bloody in execution , and unimportant in their results , so far as they related to his design , upon the progress of ...
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... period in the history of every civilized nation has been that in which the reigning power and the people at large have shown most em- phatically their appreciation of the teacher's profes- sion . And well they may ; for it is by letters ...
... period in the history of every civilized nation has been that in which the reigning power and the people at large have shown most em- phatically their appreciation of the teacher's profes- sion . And well they may ; for it is by letters ...
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... period of life is it more disastrous to entertain it than in youth . Sir Sydney Smith has appropriately observed , that " it would be an extremely profitable thing , to draw . up a short and well authenticated account of the habits of ...
... period of life is it more disastrous to entertain it than in youth . Sir Sydney Smith has appropriately observed , that " it would be an extremely profitable thing , to draw . up a short and well authenticated account of the habits of ...
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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.