Good Samaritans: Or, Biographical Illustrations of the Law of Human KindnessW.S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1883 - 392 páginas |
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... seemed commonplace , and into lucidity that which before was obscure . It is an expansive , and , at the same time , an elevating force . In the hands and heart of an able , conscientious teacher , it invests everything with a new ...
... seemed commonplace , and into lucidity that which before was obscure . It is an expansive , and , at the same time , an elevating force . In the hands and heart of an able , conscientious teacher , it invests everything with a new ...
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... seemed the dream of a visionary or the folly of an enthusiast . I have referred to Dean Swift's essay on the " Education of Ladies . " He has also a paper on " Modern Education , " which treats of that of gentlemen , and he shows , with ...
... seemed the dream of a visionary or the folly of an enthusiast . I have referred to Dean Swift's essay on the " Education of Ladies . " He has also a paper on " Modern Education , " which treats of that of gentlemen , and he shows , with ...
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... seemed sufficient ; for their time may be spent more profitably , perhaps , in receiving instruction than in being present at a long discourse , which their minds are not yet able to comprehend ; but people may think differently on this ...
... seemed sufficient ; for their time may be spent more profitably , perhaps , in receiving instruction than in being present at a long discourse , which their minds are not yet able to comprehend ; but people may think differently on this ...
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... seemed to absorb all men's attention , and to make one class apprehend the utter destruction of our political system , while it filled others with alarm lest a stop should be put to the advancement of the human mind . That all those ...
... seemed to absorb all men's attention , and to make one class apprehend the utter destruction of our political system , while it filled others with alarm lest a stop should be put to the advancement of the human mind . That all those ...
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... seemed to many persons sooner or later to be inevitable . The difficulty , however , of making the first step , where the alleged objection to alteration was its impracticability , was not to be easily surmounted . The mere resistance ...
... seemed to many persons sooner or later to be inevitable . The difficulty , however , of making the first step , where the alleged objection to alteration was its impracticability , was not to be easily surmounted . The mere resistance ...
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Página 166 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Página 75 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 102 - Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Página 401 - Tell them to work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh, when no man can work.
Página 174 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Página 278 - O'ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Página 32 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Página 299 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient...
Página 299 - ... to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Página 80 - And there should be no greater comfort to christian persons than to be made like unto Christ, by suffering patiently adversities, troubles, and sicknesses. For he himself went not up to joy, but first he suffered pain ; he entered not into his glory before he was crucified.