The EnquirerJ. Anderson, 1823 - 411 |
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Strona 12
... advantages he has had to boast , and I shall arrive at an excellence not inferior to his . ' This view of the nature of the human mind , is of the utmost importance in the science of edu- cation . According to the notions formerly re ...
... advantages he has had to boast , and I shall arrive at an excellence not inferior to his . ' This view of the nature of the human mind , is of the utmost importance in the science of edu- cation . According to the notions formerly re ...
Strona 41
... advantages of a literary education . A further argument in favour of the study of the Latin language , may be deduced from the nature of logic , or the art of thinking . ESSAY VI . ] OF THE STUDY OF THE CLASSICS . 41 .
... advantages of a literary education . A further argument in favour of the study of the Latin language , may be deduced from the nature of logic , or the art of thinking . ESSAY VI . ] OF THE STUDY OF THE CLASSICS . 41 .
Strona 50
... advantages of public and private education . The chief benefit attend- ant on private instruction seems to be the follow- ing . There is no motive more powerful in its opera- tions upon the human mind , than that which ori- ginates in ...
... advantages of public and private education . The chief benefit attend- ant on private instruction seems to be the follow- ing . There is no motive more powerful in its opera- tions upon the human mind , than that which ori- ginates in ...
Strona 52
... advantage however of private education it is by no means impossible in a great degree to combine with public . Your child may be treat- ed with esteem and distinction in the intervals of his school education , though perhaps these can ...
... advantage however of private education it is by no means impossible in a great degree to combine with public . Your child may be treat- ed with esteem and distinction in the intervals of his school education , though perhaps these can ...
Strona 53
... advantage attendant upon public edu- cation , will be explained by the observation , that a real scholar is seldom found to be produced in any other way . This is principally owing to the circumstance that , in private education , the ...
... advantage attendant upon public edu- cation , will be explained by the observation , that a real scholar is seldom found to be produced in any other way . This is principally owing to the circumstance that , in private education , the ...
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Strona 352 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Strona 374 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Strona 353 - 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 to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Strona 354 - ... honesty of one who hath but a common repute in learning, and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner, lest he should drop a schism, or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.
Strona 91 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Strona 373 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Strona 339 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Strona 351 - For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might, without apology, speak more of himself than I mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose, a mortal thing among many readers of no empyreal conceit, to venture and divulge unusual things of myself, I shall petition to the gentler sort, it may not be envy to me.
Strona 339 - Now if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if...
Strona 144 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.