Thoughts on Educational Topics and InstitutionsPhillips, Sampson, 1859 - 365 páginas |
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... living or dead , whose faith and labors laid the foundation on which the state has built . Of the dead , I mention Lyman , Lamb , Denny , Wood- ward , Shaw , and Greenleaf , all of whom , with money , counsel , or personal service ...
... living or dead , whose faith and labors laid the foundation on which the state has built . Of the dead , I mention Lyman , Lamb , Denny , Wood- ward , Shaw , and Greenleaf , all of whom , with money , counsel , or personal service ...
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... living govern- ments even , may be defined as a union of a few for their benefit , and for the oppression of many . reason of man has not often been consulted in their formation , and the interests and principles of the masses have ...
... living govern- ments even , may be defined as a union of a few for their benefit , and for the oppression of many . reason of man has not often been consulted in their formation , and the interests and principles of the masses have ...
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... living elements of which it is composed . If it is disorganized morally , uncultivated in intellect , ignorant , indolent , or waste- ful in its labor , its claims to greatness are destitute of solid foundation , and it must finally ...
... living elements of which it is composed . If it is disorganized morally , uncultivated in intellect , ignorant , indolent , or waste- ful in its labor , its claims to greatness are destitute of solid foundation , and it must finally ...
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... living God ; and the death of the body is almost cer- tainly to be preceded by madness , insanity , and idiocy of the mind . Or , if any think that this per- son escaped with too light an expiation for so great a crime , let them recall ...
... living God ; and the death of the body is almost cer- tainly to be preceded by madness , insanity , and idiocy of the mind . Or , if any think that this per- son escaped with too light an expiation for so great a crime , let them recall ...
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... living groves , whose summer foliage is emblematical of innocence , progress , and peace . We have here a social life , with natural impulses , cultivated worldly interests , moral and religious sentiments , all on the side of virtue ...
... living groves , whose summer foliage is emblematical of innocence , progress , and peace . We have here a social life , with natural impulses , cultivated worldly interests , moral and religious sentiments , all on the side of virtue ...
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Página 256 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Página 21 - A mind well skilled to find, or forge a fault ; A turn for punning — call it Attic salt ; To JEFFREY go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet...
Página 73 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Página 173 - In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra.
Página 10 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 19 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Página 180 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Página 298 - Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Página 269 - A superior and commanding human intellect, a truly great man, when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a temporary flame, burning bright for a while, and then expiring, giving place to returning darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent heat, as well as radiant light, with power to enkindle the common mass of human mind ; so that when It glimmers, in its own decay, and finally goes out in death, no night follows...
Página 94 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.