The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of Ascham, Milton, Locke, and Butler; from the Quarterly Journal of Education; and from Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction |
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Indeed the principles and manners of the poor , as to virtue and religion , will
always be greatly influenced , as they always have been , by the example of their
superiors , if that would mend the matter . And this influence will , I suppose , be ...
Indeed the principles and manners of the poor , as to virtue and religion , will
always be greatly influenced , as they always have been , by the example of their
superiors , if that would mend the matter . And this influence will , I suppose , be ...
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It would be easy , for instance , to inculcate such a love of truth as would
influence a child's conduct through “ life , and form ... any character at all , and of
course are subject to be influenced by such motives as circumstances present to
them .
It would be easy , for instance , to inculcate such a love of truth as would
influence a child's conduct through “ life , and form ... any character at all , and of
course are subject to be influenced by such motives as circumstances present to
them .
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If we are assured that virtue may be reduced to a science , it is not the less certain
that this science is of a nature to exercise the most extensive and salutary
influence upon society . We all know what an indispensable element in social life
...
If we are assured that virtue may be reduced to a science , it is not the less certain
that this science is of a nature to exercise the most extensive and salutary
influence upon society . We all know what an indispensable element in social life
...
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If mothers cannot find time personally to superintend the elementary education of
their children , neither will they find time to ascertain how that education proceeds
. But they may eventually find time to lament over the influence of bad example ...
If mothers cannot find time personally to superintend the elementary education of
their children , neither will they find time to ascertain how that education proceeds
. But they may eventually find time to lament over the influence of bad example ...
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such means can be pointed out a favour will be conferred on those who regard
emulation as an unlawful or an unsafe principle of action ; while even they who
have no scruples on that point may find the influence of other motives a desirable
...
such means can be pointed out a favour will be conferred on those who regard
emulation as an unlawful or an unsafe principle of action ; while even they who
have no scruples on that point may find the influence of other motives a desirable
...
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Página 182 - ... bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Página 40 - I wis all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas, good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Página 41 - ... weeping because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures in very deed be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Página 117 - ... that sublime art which in Aristotle's poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro,18 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 110 - ... now on the sudden transported under another climate, to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning, mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge...
Página 116 - Logic, therefore, so much as is useful, is to be referred to this due place, with all her well-couched heads and topics, until it be time to open her contracted palm into a graceful and ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato, Aristotle, Phalereus, Cicero, Hermogenes, Longinus.
Página 121 - HSrtlib, you have a general view in writing, as your desire was, of that which at several times I had discoursed with you concerning the best and noblest way of education ; not beginning, as some have done, from the cradle, which yet might be worth many considerations, if brevity had not been my scope.
Página 126 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this: That a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Página 108 - The end then of learning is, to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright...
Página 109 - 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...
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| Título | The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of Ascham, Milton, Locke, and Butler; from the Quarterly Journal of Education; and from Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of Ascham, Milton, Locke, and Butler; from the Quarterly Journal of Education; and from Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) |
| Colaborador | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) |
| Editor | C. Knight, 1836 |
| Procedencia del original | la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 6 Oct 2006 |
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