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... young men , beginning to read and think , should be stimulated to mental and moral culture , I shall be amply recompensed for what- ever trouble and risk the present publication involves . In this age and nation young men need all the ...
... young men , beginning to read and think , should be stimulated to mental and moral culture , I shall be amply recompensed for what- ever trouble and risk the present publication involves . In this age and nation young men need all the ...
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... young men wishing to cultivate their minds , I may be allowed to say a few things without being sus- pected of self - interest or flattery . We live in an age of improvement ; and I do not for one moment believe that the former times ...
... young men wishing to cultivate their minds , I may be allowed to say a few things without being sus- pected of self - interest or flattery . We live in an age of improvement ; and I do not for one moment believe that the former times ...
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... Young people should now go on with their own education when they leave school . At school they get a fair start , and only a start in the path of culture , and they should walk on in that path when their schooling is over . This remark ...
... Young people should now go on with their own education when they leave school . At school they get a fair start , and only a start in the path of culture , and they should walk on in that path when their schooling is over . This remark ...
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... young men engaged in shops and ware- houses during the day , and the great facilities for obtaining private lessons on all kinds of subjects . But as it concerns godly young men and their duty , is there not another and important light ...
... young men engaged in shops and ware- houses during the day , and the great facilities for obtaining private lessons on all kinds of subjects . But as it concerns godly young men and their duty , is there not another and important light ...
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... young men fit themselves to do battle for Christianity in an age like this . Probably in this age of culture , when the opportunities for improvement are great and manifold , most thoughtful , steady , plodding , poor young men ask ...
... young men fit themselves to do battle for Christianity in an age like this . Probably in this age of culture , when the opportunities for improvement are great and manifold , most thoughtful , steady , plodding , poor young men ask ...
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Page 31 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways ; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
Page 134 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God...
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Page 32 - For that indirect self-preservation which we call gaining a livelihood, the knowledge of greatest value is— Science. For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in— Science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present, without which the citizen cannot rightly regulate his conduct, the indispensable key is— Science. Alike for the most perfect production and highest enjoyment of art in all its forms, the needful preparation is still— Science....
Page 53 - We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
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Page 25 - ... a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world...
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