An essay on education, Volumen 1F. and C. Rivington, 1804 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 272 - German, by abounding too much in harfh confonants and gutturals, .has great fize and ftrength, like the ftatue of Hercules Farnefe, but no grace. That the Roman, like the buft of Antinous, is beautiful, indeed, but •not manly.. That the Italian has beauty, grace, and fyimnetry, like the Venus of Medicis, but is feminine.
Página 24 - The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regiilation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.
Página 299 - ... cannot afterwards be loft. Upon this, indeed, depends in a great degree our fenfibility to literary excellence; much of the pleafure, with which we are afterwards to read ; and not a little of the ability, with which we are to write. The ftudy of the clafficks muft naturally be the beft foundation for the ftudy of languages in general.
Página 18 - ... ought to excite in the ingenuous minds of youth, only contempt and abhorrence. But that decent and fettled command of temper, which a good education...
Página 224 - ... of an academy is required to possess, like the hero of a romance, not only talents and virtues, above the ordinary endowments of lium-.inii v, but such contrarieties of excellence.
Página 272 - On fuch an inquiry it would be found that probably in no language in the world, have the vowels, diphthongs, femivowels and mutes, been fo happily blended, and in fuch due proportion, ..to;. conftitute the three great powers of fpeech, melody, harmony, and expreffion. And upon a fair compari:fon it would appear, that the French have emafculated their tongue, by...
Página 120 - In almost every thing human a compromise must be made. As we approach one advantage, we generally recede from another; and a greater evil can sometimes be avoided only by submitting to a less.
Página 272 - On such an inquiry, it would be found that probably in no language in the world have the vowels, diphthongs, semi-vowels, and mutes been so happily blended, and in such due proportion, to constitute the three great powers of speech — melody, harmony, and expression. And, upon a fair comparison, it would appear that the French have emasculated their tongue by rejecting such numbers of their consonants; that...
Página 311 - ... in theory ; but which will be found in practice to be at a great diftance from the truth.
Página 300 - Securely depofited in the monuments, which the fages of antiquity have erected, the reward of the benefits to be derived from them to all future ages will be the immortality they have deferved. What theory would teach us to expect, is found by experience to be true, that he who is already acquainted with the Greek and Roman tongues, attains thofe of the modern nations of Europe, with an eafe and rapidity, which other ftudentshave in vain attempted to rival.