Western Journal of Education, Volumes 5-6

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1900 - Education
 

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Page 41 - and such as sleep o'nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous. Would he were fatter:—But I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius.
Page 42 - If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer,—' Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men
Page 24 - I pluck you out of the crannies ;— Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower, — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all. I should know what God and man is.
Page 8 - ev'ry mountain side Let fridmen ring. "My native country the Land of the noble free, Thy name I love. I love thy rots and chills, Thy woods and temper pills, My heart with ratcher thrills Like that above.
Page 42 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers rill; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, C;esar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff;
Page 30 - in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, What writest thou?
Page 27 - of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Page 33 - Still as my horizon grew, Larger grew my riches too; All the world I saw or knew Seemed a complex Chinese toy, Fashioned for a barefoot boy ! By nature study in the best sense, however, is not meant teaching science, but scientific teaching. I cannot refrain from calling attention to the very considerable danger arising from home study, especially in young
Page 30 - ABOU BEN ADHEM. Abon Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, What writest thou?
Page 42 - Before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he plucked me ope his doublet, and offered them his throat to cut, . . . and so he fell. When he came to himself again, he said,

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