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... intellect are taken into account : 1. There are silent and secret influences which color thought and determine the tone and character of actions and expressions ; they grow with our growth and strengthen with our strength ; they are ...
... intellect are taken into account : 1. There are silent and secret influences which color thought and determine the tone and character of actions and expressions ; they grow with our growth and strengthen with our strength ; they are ...
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... intellect must not be cramped and distorted . The system that stands between him and the right development of his faculties , whether based upon anti- quated prejudices , or whether the outcome of some new - fangled theory , be its ...
... intellect must not be cramped and distorted . The system that stands between him and the right development of his faculties , whether based upon anti- quated prejudices , or whether the outcome of some new - fangled theory , be its ...
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... intellect and liberty subordinate to religious sentiment or ecclesiastical opinion . I say it is one of the highest efforts of a broad and richly cultured intelligence to frame for itself the concept of an American university which ...
... intellect and liberty subordinate to religious sentiment or ecclesiastical opinion . I say it is one of the highest efforts of a broad and richly cultured intelligence to frame for itself the concept of an American university which ...
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... intellect , that mark of author- ity - which entitle an ancient people to assume the functions of a teacher in our modern institutions of learning . The claims of Greece to be the rightful teacher of the world in art , philosophy , and ...
... intellect , that mark of author- ity - which entitle an ancient people to assume the functions of a teacher in our modern institutions of learning . The claims of Greece to be the rightful teacher of the world in art , philosophy , and ...
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... intellect , which , with all its defects , redundancies and errors , is the collected reason of the ages , combining the principles of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns . One of the first and noblest of ...
... intellect , which , with all its defects , redundancies and errors , is the collected reason of the ages , combining the principles of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns . One of the first and noblest of ...
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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.