Lectures on Mental and Moral CultureA. S. Barnes & Burr, 1860 - 319 páginas |
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... things , and if we would have our lives well ordered , and would be wisely gov- erned , we should seek first of all , generous mental culture . The many ills to which we are subject , and the troubles and vexations with which our lives ...
... things , and if we would have our lives well ordered , and would be wisely gov- erned , we should seek first of all , generous mental culture . The many ills to which we are subject , and the troubles and vexations with which our lives ...
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... things and mysteries , which his earnest mind was thirsting to discover when he was called away ! And does God create for naught ? Does that Being bestow such gifts without granting the means for their improve- ment ? Though we but ...
... things and mysteries , which his earnest mind was thirsting to discover when he was called away ! And does God create for naught ? Does that Being bestow such gifts without granting the means for their improve- ment ? Though we but ...
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... thing , to draw up a short and well authenticated account of the habits of study of the most celebrated writers with whose style of literary industry we happen to be most acquainted . It would go very far to destroy the absurd and ...
... thing , to draw up a short and well authenticated account of the habits of study of the most celebrated writers with whose style of literary industry we happen to be most acquainted . It would go very far to destroy the absurd and ...
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... thing was changed . He was in close proximity to the metropolis of France , where beats the heart of the nation , and where the strong pulsations are quickly felt . He found himself sur- rounded by a company of young Frenchmen , the ...
... thing was changed . He was in close proximity to the metropolis of France , where beats the heart of the nation , and where the strong pulsations are quickly felt . He found himself sur- rounded by a company of young Frenchmen , the ...
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... thing to conform to its intuitive sense of justice , and when it perceives the right trampled out by the wrong , the shock is more keenly felt than in after years , when the feelings have become callous by oft re- peated agonies and ...
... thing to conform to its intuitive sense of justice , and when it perceives the right trampled out by the wrong , the shock is more keenly felt than in after years , when the feelings have become callous by oft re- peated agonies and ...
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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.