Precept and example, in the instructive letters of eminent men to their younger friends: with short biographs of the writersTaylor and Hessey, 1825 - 272 páginas |
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... you should curiously look upon the fortification of that and considering the estate of Christendom , I cannot tell how to design your travel into Italy . I would not have you to go specially , for 14 SIR HENRY SIDNEY .
... you should curiously look upon the fortification of that and considering the estate of Christendom , I cannot tell how to design your travel into Italy . I would not have you to go specially , for 14 SIR HENRY SIDNEY .
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... considering the vanity of the one , and the inanity of the other . Thus my soul still moves eastward , as all the heavenly bodies do ; but I must tell you , that as those bodies are over - mastered , and snatched away to the west ...
... considering the vanity of the one , and the inanity of the other . Thus my soul still moves eastward , as all the heavenly bodies do ; but I must tell you , that as those bodies are over - mastered , and snatched away to the west ...
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... consider , that whereas my Crea- tor intended this body of mine , though a lump of clay , to be a temple of his holy Spirit , my affection should turn it often to a brothel - house , my passions to a bedlam , and my excesses to an ...
... consider , that whereas my Crea- tor intended this body of mine , though a lump of clay , to be a temple of his holy Spirit , my affection should turn it often to a brothel - house , my passions to a bedlam , and my excesses to an ...
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... consider the fairness and maturity of his age , and that it was rather a gentle dissolution than death ; when I con- template the infinite advantage he hath got by this change and transmigration , it much lightens the weight of my grief ...
... consider the fairness and maturity of his age , and that it was rather a gentle dissolution than death ; when I con- template the infinite advantage he hath got by this change and transmigration , it much lightens the weight of my grief ...
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... consider what a rare prerogative the optic virtue of the eye hath , much more the intuitive virtue of the thought , that the one in a moment can reach heaven , and the other go beyond it ; there- fore sure that philosopher was but a ...
... consider what a rare prerogative the optic virtue of the eye hath , much more the intuitive virtue of the thought , that the one in a moment can reach heaven , and the other go beyond it ; there- fore sure that philosopher was but a ...
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Página 106 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Página 39 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
Página 36 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 32 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.
Página 45 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Página 28 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar...
Página 34 - And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of universities not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages that instead of beginning with arts most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics...
Página 36 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, 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 33 - ... forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention.
Página 46 - These are the studies wherein our noble and our gentle youth ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way from twelve to one-and-twenty ; unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead than upon themselves living. 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...