Lectures on Mental and Moral CultureA. S. Barnes & Burr, 1860 - 319 páginas |
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... labor . Spontaneity is innocence , the golden age of thought ; but virtue is worth more than innocence , and virtue requires a continual struggle . " — History of Modern Philosophy . ID . NEW YORK : A. S. BARNES & BURR , 51 & 53 JOHN ...
... labor . Spontaneity is innocence , the golden age of thought ; but virtue is worth more than innocence , and virtue requires a continual struggle . " — History of Modern Philosophy . ID . NEW YORK : A. S. BARNES & BURR , 51 & 53 JOHN ...
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... labor will press upon him as drudgery . The action of all his powers will be sluggish , and in despising the pleasures of profes- sional pride , he misses the finest enjoyment of active life . There is no feeling more degrading to a man ...
... labor will press upon him as drudgery . The action of all his powers will be sluggish , and in despising the pleasures of profes- sional pride , he misses the finest enjoyment of active life . There is no feeling more degrading to a man ...
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... labor which is bestowed in acquiring lands , and houses , and costly furniture , and in an- swering those demands which are made upon us by fashion and the eyes of other people . For , if our lives have been consistent with His will ...
... labor which is bestowed in acquiring lands , and houses , and costly furniture , and in an- swering those demands which are made upon us by fashion and the eyes of other people . For , if our lives have been consistent with His will ...
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... labor , ―he toils early and late , —and his garments at times are worn and dusty . But what shapes of beauty and magnificence does the earth take beneath his hand ! He hews down the heavy forest , and lets Remark of Cicero . Beauties of ...
... labor , ―he toils early and late , —and his garments at times are worn and dusty . But what shapes of beauty and magnificence does the earth take beneath his hand ! He hews down the heavy forest , and lets Remark of Cicero . Beauties of ...
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... subtle and unseen elements take forms of beauty and magnificence — the fragrant shrub , the stately cub , the LIBRAR UNIVERSITY OF THE CALIFORNIA Results of the Farmer's labor . Life of the Teacher TEACHER'S PROFESSION . 19.
... subtle and unseen elements take forms of beauty and magnificence — the fragrant shrub , the stately cub , the LIBRAR UNIVERSITY OF THE CALIFORNIA Results of the Farmer's labor . Life of the Teacher TEACHER'S PROFESSION . 19.
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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.