Lectures on Mental and Moral CultureA. S. Barnes & Burr, 1860 - 319 páginas |
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... In each of the other learned professions there are books detailing the theory and the practice of the art , and the young man who desires to enter Importance of professional reading . True spirit of teaching . TEACHER'S PROFESSION . 35.
... In each of the other learned professions there are books detailing the theory and the practice of the art , and the young man who desires to enter Importance of professional reading . True spirit of teaching . TEACHER'S PROFESSION . 35.
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... desires the respect and confidence of cultivated and thinking men , should possess extensive general information . Many of our young men who aspire to this position are shame- fully ignorant of the most common and familiar facts . A ...
... desires the respect and confidence of cultivated and thinking men , should possess extensive general information . Many of our young men who aspire to this position are shame- fully ignorant of the most common and familiar facts . A ...
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... desire to be acquainted with that portion of it which tran- spired before he had come to public notice . But to the rising generation , to those who are now receiving that education which is to guide and support them through life , the ...
... desire to be acquainted with that portion of it which tran- spired before he had come to public notice . But to the rising generation , to those who are now receiving that education which is to guide and support them through life , the ...
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... desire by any praises we may bestow on his talent and industry in youth , to encourage a taste for military glory , or unholy ambition . He was a noble pattern of a scholar , and as such we wish to present him as an example to those who ...
... desire by any praises we may bestow on his talent and industry in youth , to encourage a taste for military glory , or unholy ambition . He was a noble pattern of a scholar , and as such we wish to present him as an example to those who ...
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... desire to see all abuses , antiquated privileges , and usurped rights annulled . Nay ! as I am at the commencement of my career , it will be my best policy , as Uneasiness of Neckar and Lafayette . Mirabeau and Talleyrand . 70 THE BOYHOOD.
... desire to see all abuses , antiquated privileges , and usurped rights annulled . Nay ! as I am at the commencement of my career , it will be my best policy , as Uneasiness of Neckar and Lafayette . Mirabeau and Talleyrand . 70 THE BOYHOOD.
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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...
Página 278 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
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 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 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 273 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew: 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher, too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran — that he could gauge.
Página 111 - Sir, 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 Senate House, 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 fill ! and thou, too, my son ! — He sat down.
Página 144 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
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 110 - ... suffused with tears ; Mr. Justice Washington at his side, with his small and emaciated frame, and countenance more like marble than I ever saw on any other human being — leaning forward with an eager, troubled look ; and the remainder of the court, at the two extremities, pressing, as it were, towards a single point, while the audience below were wrapping themselves round in closer folds beneath the bench to catch. each look, and every movement of the speaker's face.