Proceedings of the ... Convocation, 14. kötet,1877. rész |
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9. oldal
... thought and determine the tone and character of actions and expressions ; they grow with our growth and strengthen with our strength ; they are more cogent than the syllogism ; they lurk in the most unsuspected positions ; they do not ...
... thought and determine the tone and character of actions and expressions ; they grow with our growth and strengthen with our strength ; they are more cogent than the syllogism ; they lurk in the most unsuspected positions ; they do not ...
10. oldal
... thought that he brings it home to himself . This accounts for the fact that men change their religious opinions , or their political views , or their scientific and philosophic theories , after having built a life of action upon them ...
... thought that he brings it home to himself . This accounts for the fact that men change their religious opinions , or their political views , or their scientific and philosophic theories , after having built a life of action upon them ...
12. oldal
... thought the question , at once , the most difficult , and the most important , of all that arise , in respect to education , while , at the same time , it is more and more forced upon us . Originally , we were morally a homogeneous ...
... thought the question , at once , the most difficult , and the most important , of all that arise , in respect to education , while , at the same time , it is more and more forced upon us . Originally , we were morally a homogeneous ...
14. oldal
... thought , and , taken in its broad sense , includes all modes and means by which thought can be communicated . Everything has a language of its own , and he is the intelligent reader who can properly interpret this language . The lungs ...
... thought , and , taken in its broad sense , includes all modes and means by which thought can be communicated . Everything has a language of its own , and he is the intelligent reader who can properly interpret this language . The lungs ...
16. oldal
... thought . It is necessary to dis- criminate between the diverse forms of culture which distinguish the " classic " nations of antiquity . As the essential spirit of Greek life is revealed in pure literature , philosophy and art , that ...
... thought . It is necessary to dis- criminate between the diverse forms of culture which distinguish the " classic " nations of antiquity . As the essential spirit of Greek life is revealed in pure literature , philosophy and art , that ...
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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.