Lectures on Mental and Moral CultureA. S. Barnes & Burr, 1860 - 319 páginas |
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... improvement , the mental growth of large numbers of human beings depends , has a higher destiny . The noblest object for which any man can live is , without doubt , the cultivation of that part of him which is imperishable . It is the ...
... improvement , the mental growth of large numbers of human beings depends , has a higher destiny . The noblest object for which any man can live is , without doubt , the cultivation of that part of him which is imperishable . It is the ...
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... improvement . Their knowledge is just sufficient for their needs . They eat , and sleep , and then lie down to die . But not so with the soul of man . It is endowed with faculties susceptible of indefinite expansion and improvement . At ...
... improvement . Their knowledge is just sufficient for their needs . They eat , and sleep , and then lie down to die . But not so with the soul of man . It is endowed with faculties susceptible of indefinite expansion and improvement . At ...
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... 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 . Dignity of the Profession 14 DIGNITY OF THE.
... 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 . Dignity of the Profession 14 DIGNITY OF THE.
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Samuel Penniman Bates. Spiritual improvement our highest duty . Dignity of the Profession . are impelled to the belief ... improvement , for the attainment of which we are without doubt expressly created ; and that we Eneas at the tomb of ...
Samuel Penniman Bates. Spiritual improvement our highest duty . Dignity of the Profession . are impelled to the belief ... improvement , for the attainment of which we are without doubt expressly created ; and that we Eneas at the tomb of ...
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... improvement and welfare of the company that are gathered around him . Indulgent parents may pour into his ear the complaints of pampered and fault - finding children , who have perhaps escaped unwhipped of justice , which , but for the ...
... improvement and welfare of the company that are gathered around him . Indulgent parents may pour into his ear the complaints of pampered and fault - finding children , who have perhaps escaped unwhipped of justice , which , but for the ...
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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.