Lectures on Mental and Moral CultureA. S. Barnes & Burr, 1860 - 319 páginas |
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... never yield and never tire in his exertions 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 ...
... never yield and never tire in his exertions 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 ...
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... never perish . When he labors to bring into operation all those faculties with which the minds of his pupils are endowed , and inspires by his enthusiasm their young hearts with a love for learning , and a reverence for the truths of ...
... never perish . When he labors to bring into operation all those faculties with which the minds of his pupils are endowed , and inspires by his enthusiasm their young hearts with a love for learning , and a reverence for the truths of ...
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... never die so long as there are admirers of virtue , —and the con- sistency of his life , like the jewel on the brow of beauty , sheds unfading luster on his name . Socrates indeed lived to a great purpose . His power of intellect , the ...
... never die so long as there are admirers of virtue , —and the con- sistency of his life , like the jewel on the brow of beauty , sheds unfading luster on his name . Socrates indeed lived to a great purpose . His power of intellect , the ...
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... never be supplanted . Such is the profession , my brethren , to which we belong . Such are the men who have labored in it , whose teachings have been lights to the world that are still clear and bright as time wears on , and with whom ...
... never be supplanted . Such is the profession , my brethren , to which we belong . Such are the men who have labored in it , whose teachings have been lights to the world that are still clear and bright as time wears on , and with whom ...
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... never be con- tent with proficiency simply in those studies which he is required to teach . The grade of his school may be such that only the common English branches are comprised in the list ; but a knowledge of these , however ...
... never be con- tent with proficiency simply in those studies which he is required to teach . The grade of his school may be such that only the common English branches are comprised in the list ; but a knowledge of these , however ...
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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.