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... interests of my argument , I may venture . Art is the beautiful in a concrete form . What again is the beautiful ? When we say a thing is beautiful we use a word of complex meaning ; no other one word can define it . But this at least ...
... interests of my argument , I may venture . Art is the beautiful in a concrete form . What again is the beautiful ? When we say a thing is beautiful we use a word of complex meaning ; no other one word can define it . But this at least ...
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... interest- ing , than the Latin origin of the word , which in itself , and by itself , is often barren of all intellectual nourish- ment , except , of course , when it is part of a Latin lesson . With those words , however , which are ...
... interest- ing , than the Latin origin of the word , which in itself , and by itself , is often barren of all intellectual nourish- ment , except , of course , when it is part of a Latin lesson . With those words , however , which are ...
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... Interest disappears the moment you leave the page before you and try to give a formal and didactic cha- racter to word - teaching , apart from the living use of language . The teaching , moreover , is in that case easily forgotten ...
... Interest disappears the moment you leave the page before you and try to give a formal and didactic cha- racter to word - teaching , apart from the living use of language . The teaching , moreover , is in that case easily forgotten ...
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... interest for the philosophical educationalist , though it may still retain its attractions for the practical instructor . As regards mere acquisition , I affirm that " no- method " has been a scandalous failure . Let us return to the ...
... interest for the philosophical educationalist , though it may still retain its attractions for the practical instructor . As regards mere acquisition , I affirm that " no- method " has been a scandalous failure . Let us return to the ...
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... interests — the perennial interests of the revival of letters that we call on teachers to note that grammar and rhetoric , if taught as abstract systems , are a mere aggregate of names , dead names . These so - called " arts " must be ...
... interests — the perennial interests of the revival of letters that we call on teachers to note that grammar and rhetoric , if taught as abstract systems , are a mere aggregate of names , dead names . These so - called " arts " must be ...
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