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... speaking of geography , economics and hygiene , as subjects of a sound curriculum ; but on these a fifth or sixth form boy would be held to waste his time ! And so on I might go for pages , criticising existing practice , in the light ...
... speaking of geography , economics and hygiene , as subjects of a sound curriculum ; but on these a fifth or sixth form boy would be held to waste his time ! And so on I might go for pages , criticising existing practice , in the light ...
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... speak of science and philosophy , I speak of ' arts ' in the mediaval sense - the whole circle of rationalized knowledge . The merely professional studies which fit to be physician , theologian , lawyer , teacher , are only dependences ...
... speak of science and philosophy , I speak of ' arts ' in the mediaval sense - the whole circle of rationalized knowledge . The merely professional studies which fit to be physician , theologian , lawyer , teacher , are only dependences ...
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... speak of other writers ) , even after making due allowance for his rose - coloured account of conven- tual establishments , must be held to have placed this beyond doubt . But while education was generally gratuitous in the middle ages ...
... speak of other writers ) , even after making due allowance for his rose - coloured account of conven- tual establishments , must be held to have placed this beyond doubt . But while education was generally gratuitous in the middle ages ...
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... speaking in Glasgow eleven years after , said— " Who was to pay for [ the educational machinery provided ] ? He would say those who received the advantage , according to their ability . " The State , as a whole , it is true also ...
... speaking in Glasgow eleven years after , said— " Who was to pay for [ the educational machinery provided ] ? He would say those who received the advantage , according to their ability . " The State , as a whole , it is true also ...
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... speak . It is for him to reject the proffered dole . Gratuitous instruction strikes what I believe to be a serious blow at his sense of responsibility , his self- dependence , his character - all that makes him truly a man and it ...
... speak . It is for him to reject the proffered dole . Gratuitous instruction strikes what I believe to be a serious blow at his sense of responsibility , his self- dependence , his character - all that makes him truly a man and it ...
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Page 9 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 135 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Page 121 - Thou on my head in early youth didst smile, And, though rebellious and perverse meanwhile, Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee. On to the close, O Lord, abide with me!
Page 134 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 5 - Aristotle. The Rhetoric. With a Commentary by the late EM COPE, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, revised and edited by JE SANDYS, MA, Fellow and Tutor of St John's College, and Public Orator. 3 Vols. Demy 8vo. 21*. Aristotle— IIEP1 *YXH2. Aristotle's Psychology, in Greek and English, with Introduction and Notes, by EDWIN WALLACE, MA, late Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Page 1 - The Pointed Prayer Book, being the Book of Common Prayer with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.
Page 118 - The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Page 186 - ... wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 167 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 133 - The Lamb Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee, Gave thee life and bade thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little lamb, who made thee? Little lamb, I'll tell thee; Little lamb, I'll tell thee. He is called...