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... things , form the staple of education ; yet the merest smattering * Those who were present at the highly interesting lecture lately de- livered at Willis's Rooms , by Mr. W. E. Hickson , will need no proof of the possibility of ...
... things , form the staple of education ; yet the merest smattering * Those who were present at the highly interesting lecture lately de- livered at Willis's Rooms , by Mr. W. E. Hickson , will need no proof of the possibility of ...
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... things within his grasp , to feel them , and see them . There is an impulse within him to find out the properties of every object he meets with , so fresh and vigorous , that it may well seem enviable to students dulled by exclusive ...
... things within his grasp , to feel them , and see them . There is an impulse within him to find out the properties of every object he meets with , so fresh and vigorous , that it may well seem enviable to students dulled by exclusive ...
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... things , must not be blunted by a premature attempt at teaching him to read , or by that absurd and confusing process , as it is commonly practised , of teaching him his letters . The child must know many things before read- ing or ...
... things , must not be blunted by a premature attempt at teaching him to read , or by that absurd and confusing process , as it is commonly practised , of teaching him his letters . The child must know many things before read- ing or ...
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... thing to be longer than another , and , with the help of his clear ideas of number , one thing to be twice or three times as long as another ; and two things , which can- not be brought together , to be equal , by finding both equal to ...
... thing to be longer than another , and , with the help of his clear ideas of number , one thing to be twice or three times as long as another ; and two things , which can- not be brought together , to be equal , by finding both equal to ...
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... things go- verned by mere prejudice and custom , this kind of know- ledge would seem the most fitting for universal acquisi- tion , as concerning all men alike and affecting all pur- suits . A knowledge of the structure of a man's own ...
... things go- verned by mere prejudice and custom , this kind of know- ledge would seem the most fitting for universal acquisi- tion , as concerning all men alike and affecting all pur- suits . A knowledge of the structure of a man's own ...
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Page 224 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 228 - ... or the whole symphony, with artful and unimaginable touches, adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer; sometimes the lute, or soft organ-stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties; which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.
Page 224 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixed. It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into...
Page 224 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil; that is to say, of knowing good by evil.
Page 316 - One of the surest signs of the regeneration of society will be, the elevation of the art of teaching to the highest rank in the community. When a people shall learn, that its greatest benefactors and most important members are men devoted to the liberal instruction of all its classes, to the work of raising to life its buried intellect, it will have opened to itself the path of true glory.
Page 228 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music heard or learned ; either whilst the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or the whole symphony, with artful and unimaginable touches, adorn and grace the well studied chords of some choice composer...
Page 224 - Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction ; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.
Page 257 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here, hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces ; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Page 364 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 225 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...