Lectures on Mental and Moral CultureA.S. Barnes & Company, 1869 - 319 páginas |
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... practical knowledge which serves him in times of difficulty . Napoleon became a perfect master of these branches , and was never obliged to depend upon the knowl- edge of his subordinates in forming his great plans , for his own ...
... practical knowledge which serves him in times of difficulty . Napoleon became a perfect master of these branches , and was never obliged to depend upon the knowl- edge of his subordinates in forming his great plans , for his own ...
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... only mastered with surprising alacrity all the studies of his class , but he devoured with eagerness every thing upon history , politics and the practical Extent of his information . Studious habits confirmed . arts 60 THE BOYHOOD.
... only mastered with surprising alacrity all the studies of his class , but he devoured with eagerness every thing upon history , politics and the practical Extent of his information . Studious habits confirmed . arts 60 THE BOYHOOD.
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... practical use of them . They have been taught to give the part of speech of each word in the parsing lesson , the " government and rule for it , " without ever dreaming that all this is to enable them to speak and write the English ...
... practical use of them . They have been taught to give the part of speech of each word in the parsing lesson , the " government and rule for it , " without ever dreaming that all this is to enable them to speak and write the English ...
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... not conduce to this result is of but little value . Rhetoric should likewise be made a practical mat- ter . We sometimes think we have done well for a Monsieur Jourdain in the French comedy . student when we OF LANGUAGE . 163.
... not conduce to this result is of but little value . Rhetoric should likewise be made a practical mat- ter . We sometimes think we have done well for a Monsieur Jourdain in the French comedy . student when we OF LANGUAGE . 163.
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... whenever he pronounced the vowel I , the direction seemed to the unsophisticated ignoramus like very profound learning . But whether the pupil was enabled to Teaching should be practical . give utterance to the sound 164 THE STUDY.
... whenever he pronounced the vowel I , the direction seemed to the unsophisticated ignoramus like very profound learning . But whether the pupil was enabled to Teaching should be practical . give utterance to the sound 164 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.