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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... means easy to convey instruction into the youthful breast : perhaps , indeed , it is unjust to expect at that such a love of wisdom as would lead to age the contemplation of it with an interest only to be looked for in those who , by ...
... means easy to convey instruction into the youthful breast : perhaps , indeed , it is unjust to expect at that such a love of wisdom as would lead to age the contemplation of it with an interest only to be looked for in those who , by ...
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... our efforts . We would fain hope that our satisfaction may be rendered complete , by finding these efforts not unsuccessful . If by our means the in- genuous Reader should be led to imitate the EXAMPLE , viii PREFACE .
... our efforts . We would fain hope that our satisfaction may be rendered complete , by finding these efforts not unsuccessful . If by our means the in- genuous Reader should be led to imitate the EXAMPLE , viii PREFACE .
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... all betokening reins , or bridles , for the loose -serious , grave , sober , for which it was " Sad , " means- frequently used by our earlier writers . use of that member . Above all things tell no 10 SIR HENRY , SIDNEY .
... all betokening reins , or bridles , for the loose -serious , grave , sober , for which it was " Sad , " means- frequently used by our earlier writers . use of that member . Above all things tell no 10 SIR HENRY , SIDNEY .
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... with me . But what do I blunder at these things ? follow the direction of * By the word " commodity , " in this letter , Sir Henry means advantage . your most loving brother , who in loving you is SIR HENRY SIDNEY . 15.
... with me . But what do I blunder at these things ? follow the direction of * By the word " commodity , " in this letter , Sir Henry means advantage . your most loving brother , who in loving you is SIR HENRY SIDNEY . 15.
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... mean ) played the knave with you and me ; and after that sort you may write to him . But if your tokens come , I will send you such a suit of apparel as shall beseem your father's son to wear in any court in Germany . Commend me to the ...
... mean ) played the knave with you and me ; and after that sort you may write to him . But if your tokens come , I will send you such a suit of apparel as shall beseem your father's son to wear in any court in Germany . Commend me to 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...