Two Commencement AddressesHarvard University Press, 1915 - 44 |
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... vast debt which mankind owes to the recovery of the litera- ture and art of Greece and Rome . It was by no means without reason that a classical was known and is still known as a liberal education . The mind of the Renaissance was ...
... vast debt which mankind owes to the recovery of the litera- ture and art of Greece and Rome . It was by no means without reason that a classical was known and is still known as a liberal education . The mind of the Renaissance was ...
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... vast gifts of knowledge , with all that it has de- vised and invented so beneficent and also so destructive to man , as strongly as you please ; vaunt not only the necessity of mechanical industry but the advantages of money - getting ...
... vast gifts of knowledge , with all that it has de- vised and invented so beneficent and also so destructive to man , as strongly as you please ; vaunt not only the necessity of mechanical industry but the advantages of money - getting ...
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... vast torrent of the ephemeral and the valueless upon which rari nantes in gurgite vasto , are born the comparatively small number of books worthy of preservation . It is not bound by tradition , like the British Museum , to find house ...
... vast torrent of the ephemeral and the valueless upon which rari nantes in gurgite vasto , are born the comparatively small number of books worthy of preservation . It is not bound by tradition , like the British Museum , to find house ...
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... vast , and we find within it all the sciences and all the arts , history , philosophy in every form , meta- physics and certain kinds of criticism . Lit- erature here is the handmaid of knowledge ; too often a very neglected , dim and ...
... vast , and we find within it all the sciences and all the arts , history , philosophy in every form , meta- physics and certain kinds of criticism . Lit- erature here is the handmaid of knowledge ; too often a very neglected , dim and ...
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... vast , en- chanted land , when lifetimes are all too short to tell its wonders ? We cannot cover literature with a phrase or define it in a sentence . The passage in a great writer which comes nearest to doing this is one which I met ...
... vast , en- chanted land , when lifetimes are all too short to tell its wonders ? We cannot cover literature with a phrase or define it in a sentence . The passage in a great writer which comes nearest to doing this is one which I met ...
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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?