Liberal Education, Or, A Practical Treatise on the Methods of Acquiring Useful and Polite Learning, Volumen 1C. Dilly, 1785 |
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... because I think , and am not fingular in the opinion , that not only the tafte , but the religion , the virtue , and I will add the liberties of our countrymen , greatly depend upon its continuance . True patriotism and true valour ...
... because I think , and am not fingular in the opinion , that not only the tafte , but the religion , the virtue , and I will add the liberties of our countrymen , greatly depend upon its continuance . True patriotism and true valour ...
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... because it is poffible that he may be able to conftrue and to explain the meaning of every word , without tafting a fingle beauty ; but I cannot help think- ing , that no man can taste their excellences without a polite and elegant mind ...
... because it is poffible that he may be able to conftrue and to explain the meaning of every word , without tafting a fingle beauty ; but I cannot help think- ing , that no man can taste their excellences without a polite and elegant mind ...
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... because they have been unaccompanied with the folid qualities . The union of polite learning , with useful and folid attainments , will add a luftre and a value to both ; and it is one of the principal ends of the following Treatife to ...
... because they have been unaccompanied with the folid qualities . The union of polite learning , with useful and folid attainments , will add a luftre and a value to both ; and it is one of the principal ends of the following Treatife to ...
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... because the experience of more than two centuries has evinced its utility , and . because I am fure there is none better accom-- modated to schools . Time has decided on it ; and it is often no lefs injurious than prefumptu- ous to ...
... because the experience of more than two centuries has evinced its utility , and . because I am fure there is none better accom-- modated to schools . Time has decided on it ; and it is often no lefs injurious than prefumptu- ous to ...
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... because the maf- ters of them are , and have been , men of judg- ment and learning . But as I wish to compre- hend every thing that appears ufeful , I truft it will not be presumptuous to make a few re- marks on school - books , and the ...
... because the maf- ters of them are , and have been , men of judg- ment and learning . But as I wish to compre- hend every thing that appears ufeful , I truft it will not be presumptuous to make a few re- marks on school - books , and the ...
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Página 236 - ... moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Their inventions are not only the food of our infancy, but the substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour.
Página 167 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Página 73 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hillside, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 167 - But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reasonableness of...
Página 297 - In which methodical course, it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward, as at convenient times for memory's sake to retire back into the middle ward, and sometimes into the rear of what they have been taught, until they have confirmed and solidly united the whole body of their perfected knowledge, like the last embattling of a Roman legion.
Página 72 - ... and, although they may be, and too often are, drawn by the temptations of youth, and the opportunities of a large fortune, into some irregularities when they come forward into the great world, it is ever with reluctance and compunction of mind, because their bias to virtue still continues. They may stray sometimes out of infirmity or compliance, but they will soon return to the right road and keep it always in view.
Página 237 - ... been carefully collected and thoroughly digested. There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention ; and if he has not the power of using them, it must proceed from a feebleness of intellect, or from the confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is...
Página 237 - ... discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock: he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will never be difficult to guess what kind of work is to be produced.
Página 236 - When we have had continually before us the great works of Art to impregnate our minds with kindred ideas, we are then, and not till then, fit to produce something of the same species. We behold all about us with the eyes of those penetrating observers whose works we contemplate ; and our minds, accustomed to think the thoughts of the noblest and brightest intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature.
Página 239 - I would wish to find the three together : for how great soever a genius may be, and how much soever he may acquire new light and heat as he proceeds in his rapid course, certain it is that he will never shine...