Proceedings of the ... Convocation, 14. kötet,1877. rész |
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10. oldal
... mind laden down with an over- whelming mass of learned names and scientific symbols , and ill - under- stood facts ; and his soul penetrated with an insurmountable disgust for books , and a horror for instruction , and a strong resolve ...
... mind laden down with an over- whelming mass of learned names and scientific symbols , and ill - under- stood facts ; and his soul penetrated with an insurmountable disgust for books , and a horror for instruction , and a strong resolve ...
13. oldal
... mind and heart of our whole people with profound convictions of religious truths . They stand ready to do the same thing in education . While the State institution cannot inculcate piety , or assert a God , or lift up a soul to a ...
... mind and heart of our whole people with profound convictions of religious truths . They stand ready to do the same thing in education . While the State institution cannot inculcate piety , or assert a God , or lift up a soul to a ...
14. oldal
... mind . Words are living powers , whose vital force is co - ex- tensive with the human mind - coeval with the human race . The sub- ject was discussed by illustrations from certain words and elements of words . The subject of the paper ...
... mind . Words are living powers , whose vital force is co - ex- tensive with the human mind - coeval with the human race . The sub- ject was discussed by illustrations from certain words and elements of words . The subject of the paper ...
16. oldal
... mind indicates what special features of Roman thought should be emphasized , in any education which professes to expound the ideas of the ancient world . It is only in those respects that Rome has exiib- ited a distinctive character ...
... mind indicates what special features of Roman thought should be emphasized , in any education which professes to expound the ideas of the ancient world . It is only in those respects that Rome has exiib- ited a distinctive character ...
20. oldal
... mind I have ever met with . I have known many men of little . concern about vital truths , with whom it was easy enough to get along in debate . But for a man of decided opinions and earnest character , no one was so tolerant of ...
... mind I have ever met with . I have known many men of little . concern about vital truths , with whom it was easy enough to get along in debate . But for a man of decided opinions and earnest character , no one was so tolerant of ...
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81. oldal - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
101. oldal - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
44. oldal - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties ; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of Legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them...
81. oldal - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
112. oldal - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
83. oldal - But as I climbed the long slope of the Alban Mount, the storm swept finally to the north, and the noble outline of the domes of Albano, and graceful darkness of its ilex grove, rose against pure streaks of alternate blue and amber...
92. oldal - I will tell you, gentlemen, what has been the practical error of the last twenty years, — not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, 25 but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling the mind by an unmeaning profusion of subjects; of implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not...
83. oldal - Far up into the recesses of the valley, the green vistas arched like the hollows of mighty waves of some crystalline sea, with the arbutus flowers dashed along their flanks for foam, and silver flakes of orange spray tossed into the air around them, breaking over the grey walls of rock into a thousand separate stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall.
104. oldal - Th' expressive glance — whose subtle comment draws Entranced attention, and a mute applause ; Gesture that marks, with force and feeling fraught, A sense in silence, and a will in thought ; Harmonious speech, whose pure and liquid tone Gives verse a music, scarce confess'd its own ; As light...
128. oldal - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.