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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... wise sentence , or an apt phrase , commit it to your memory , with re- spect of the circumstance , when you shall speak it . Let never oath be heard to come out of your mouth ; nor word of ribaldry : detest it in others , so shall ...
... wise sentence , or an apt phrase , commit it to your memory , with re- spect of the circumstance , when you shall speak it . Let never oath be heard to come out of your mouth ; nor word of ribaldry : detest it in others , so shall ...
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... wise sentence or an apt phrase , commit it to your memory , with re- spect of the circumstances , when you shall speak it , " for the beauty or propriety of a sentiment often lies more in its aptness to the circumstances under which it ...
... wise sentence or an apt phrase , commit it to your memory , with re- spect of the circumstances , when you shall speak it , " for the beauty or propriety of a sentiment often lies more in its aptness to the circumstances under which it ...
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... wise in his mother dialect only . Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin ...
... wise in his mother dialect only . Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin ...
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... wise counsels are imparted in a lively , familiar style , thus rendering polite literature , as it always should be , subservient to the ends of morality and instruction . From James Howel , Esq . to his Nephew J. 92 JAMES HOWEL .
... wise counsels are imparted in a lively , familiar style , thus rendering polite literature , as it always should be , subservient to the ends of morality and instruction . From James Howel , Esq . to his Nephew J. 92 JAMES HOWEL .
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... wise man is devoid of all eccentricities , at least of those which regard his conduct , language , dress , and demeanour . Reason is the guide of all his actions , and condemning all those prejudices , partialities , and antipathies ...
... wise man is devoid of all eccentricities , at least of those which regard his conduct , language , dress , and demeanour . Reason is the guide of all his actions , and condemning all those prejudices , partialities , and antipathies ...
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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...