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... give more system and concentration to the work of the Convoca- tion . It is desired that remarks , which might appropriately follow more than one of the papers , should thus be brought within practicable limits , as to time , and be ...
... give more system and concentration to the work of the Convoca- tion . It is desired that remarks , which might appropriately follow more than one of the papers , should thus be brought within practicable limits , as to time , and be ...
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... give , up to the age of sixteen , when most pupils leave the common school , and this education and culture must be given by the secondary schools ; that the pupils , between the ages of sixteen and twenty - one , should have the ...
... give , up to the age of sixteen , when most pupils leave the common school , and this education and culture must be given by the secondary schools ; that the pupils , between the ages of sixteen and twenty - one , should have the ...
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... give the highest collegiate training , without , in any wise , interfering with or teaching religion . We have , sir , all told , in our five year's course , nearly one thousand students , coming from all classes and religious . Our ...
... give the highest collegiate training , without , in any wise , interfering with or teaching religion . We have , sir , all told , in our five year's course , nearly one thousand students , coming from all classes and religious . Our ...
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... give a religious value and power to our education , while our State system , regarding all religious beliefs as alike sacred , forbids the inculcation of the tenets of any one of them from which any other may dissent . The difficulty is ...
... give a religious value and power to our education , while our State system , regarding all religious beliefs as alike sacred , forbids the inculcation of the tenets of any one of them from which any other may dissent . The difficulty is ...
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... gives into the principles of justice as the basis of law and government . The superiority of the Roman law rests upon its being the only continuous and complete development of legal principles , thus exemplifying all the various stages ...
... gives into the principles of justice as the basis of law and government . The superiority of the Roman law rests upon its being the only continuous and complete development of legal principles , thus exemplifying all the various stages ...
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Página 81 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 101 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Página 44 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties ; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of Legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them...
Página 81 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 112 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 83 - But as I climbed the long slope of the Alban Mount, the storm swept finally to the north, and the noble outline of the domes of Albano, and graceful darkness of its ilex grove, rose against pure streaks of alternate blue and amber...
Página 92 - I will tell you, gentlemen, what has been the practical error of the last twenty years, — not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, 25 but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling the mind by an unmeaning profusion of subjects; of implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not...
Página 83 - Far up into the recesses of the valley, the green vistas arched like the hollows of mighty waves of some crystalline sea, with the arbutus flowers dashed along their flanks for foam, and silver flakes of orange spray tossed into the air around them, breaking over the grey walls of rock into a thousand separate stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall.
Página 104 - Th' expressive glance — whose subtle comment draws Entranced attention, and a mute applause ; Gesture that marks, with force and feeling fraught, A sense in silence, and a will in thought ; Harmonious speech, whose pure and liquid tone Gives verse a music, scarce confess'd its own ; As light...
Página 128 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.