Two Commencement AddressesHarvard University Press, 1915 - 44 |
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... never be otherwise than more or less bad , and the exercise was of no more value than teaching them to manufacture poems in Choctaw would have been . Whereas , if they had been taught by ear to speak Latin , even in the medieval form ...
... never be otherwise than more or less bad , and the exercise was of no more value than teaching them to manufacture poems in Choctaw would have been . Whereas , if they had been taught by ear to speak Latin , even in the medieval form ...
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... never be offended or less fascinating if we give them only scattered and unregarded minutes . By such pleasant paths as these we pass easily , smoothly , unconsciously almost , from the literature of knowledge to the literature of ...
... never be offended or less fascinating if we give them only scattered and unregarded minutes . By such pleasant paths as these we pass easily , smoothly , unconsciously almost , from the literature of knowledge to the literature of ...
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... never pass wholly away . There , too , we find the great poets who were also drama- tists , who created the men and women who never lived and will never die , whom we know better than any men or women of history who once had their ...
... never pass wholly away . There , too , we find the great poets who were also drama- tists , who created the men and women who never lived and will never die , whom we know better than any men or women of history who once had their ...
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... never lose them . These are some of the aspects , some of the inevitable suggestions of a library , of a great collection of books . In this place , in this spacious building , they offer one of the best assurances a university can have ...
... never lose them . These are some of the aspects , some of the inevitable suggestions of a library , of a great collection of books . In this place , in this spacious building , they offer one of the best assurances a university can have ...
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... never write , who have no songs to sing , no theories with which they hope to move or enlighten the world , men and women who love knowledge and literature for their own sakes and are content . Here those who toil , those who are weary ...
... never write , who have no songs to sing , no theories with which they hope to move or enlighten the world , men and women who love knowledge and literature for their own sakes and are content . Here those who toil , those who are weary ...
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Strona 44 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man, as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image : but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Strona 37 - ... haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent, 'delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.
Strona 43 - Camerado, this is no book, Who touches this touches a man, (Is it night? are we here together alone?) It is I you hold and who holds you, I spring from the pages into your arms— decease calls me forth.
Strona 27 - They knew not of his story, And sage Hippotades their answer brings, That not a blast was from his dungeon strayed, The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
Strona 43 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Strona 43 - ... nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Strona 17 - For the essence of humanism is that one belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality — no language they have spoken nor oracle by which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual human minds, nothing about which they have ever been passionate or expended time and zeal, (pp.
Strona 42 - LET me leave the plains behind, And let me leave the vales below ! Into the highlands of the mind, Into the mountains let me go.
Strona 40 - the true university of these days is a collection of books.
Strona 39 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?