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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... endeavour yourself to be virtuously occupied ; so shall you make such an habit of well doing in you , that you shall not know how to do evil , though you would . Remember , my son , the noble blood you are de- scended of , by your ...
... endeavour yourself to be virtuously occupied ; so shall you make such an habit of well doing in you , that you shall not know how to do evil , though you would . Remember , my son , the noble blood you are de- scended of , by your ...
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... endeavour to apply every tittle of the service to my own conscience and occasions ; and I believe the want of this , with the huddling up and careless reading of some ministers , with the commonness of it , is the greatest cause that ...
... endeavour to apply every tittle of the service to my own conscience and occasions ; and I believe the want of this , with the huddling up and careless reading of some ministers , with the commonness of it , is the greatest cause that ...
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... endeavour to make it much more wide , thinking to make himself some- body thereby : I am none of those ; but touching the ancients , I hold this to be a good moral rule , laudandum quod bene , ignoscendum quod aliter dixerunt : the ...
... endeavour to make it much more wide , thinking to make himself some- body thereby : I am none of those ; but touching the ancients , I hold this to be a good moral rule , laudandum quod bene , ignoscendum quod aliter dixerunt : the ...
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Precept. man . This is the temper of mind which we all should endeavour to attain , otherwise we shall be in danger of losing sight of the true religion , by wandering into the opposite errors of scepticism or superstition . Mr. Locke ...
Precept. man . This is the temper of mind which we all should endeavour to attain , otherwise we shall be in danger of losing sight of the true religion , by wandering into the opposite errors of scepticism or superstition . Mr. Locke ...
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... endeavour revenge ; for , in the first case , your credit is never the worse , when you return into England , or come into other company , that have not heard of the quarrel ; but , in the second case , you may bear the marks of the ...
... endeavour revenge ; for , in the first case , your credit is never the worse , when you return into England , or come into other company , that have not heard of the quarrel ; but , in the second case , you may bear the marks of the ...
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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...