Letters to a Young Student: In the First Stage of a Liberal EducationPerkins & Marvin, 1832 - 174 páginas |
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Página 16
... gospel , to a steadiness of purpose , and an energy of effort , before which every difficulty has given way . It is well then , I repeat it , that , at the very outset of your course , your eye is fixed .16 LETTERS TO A.
... gospel , to a steadiness of purpose , and an energy of effort , before which every difficulty has given way . It is well then , I repeat it , that , at the very outset of your course , your eye is fixed .16 LETTERS TO A.
Página 58
... difficult points in every study . Of this perni- cious practice beware . For these are the very points which most severely task the mind in the work of investigation ; and , of course , give it skill in this work . I know there are , in ...
... difficult points in every study . Of this perni- cious practice beware . For these are the very points which most severely task the mind in the work of investigation ; and , of course , give it skill in this work . I know there are , in ...
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... difficult parts of those studies , to which , in the main , they may feel themselves competent . Now I would not encourage vanity . Nor would I affirm , that all minds are equally well adapted to every intel- lectual pursuit . Minds ...
... difficult parts of those studies , to which , in the main , they may feel themselves competent . Now I would not encourage vanity . Nor would I affirm , that all minds are equally well adapted to every intel- lectual pursuit . Minds ...
Página 63
... difficult to find time for it afterwards . You will be reduced to the necessity of either omitting it wholly , or crowding the business of two days into one . Of these two courses , you will be strongly tempted to take the former ; but ...
... difficult to find time for it afterwards . You will be reduced to the necessity of either omitting it wholly , or crowding the business of two days into one . Of these two courses , you will be strongly tempted to take the former ; but ...
Página 74
... difficult forms , but even of ἡ μοῦσα and ἡ φιλία , which belong to the first rudiments of the first declension . Every year I am obliged to put my pupils on the first elements of Greek Grammar , before I can ad- vance them to the study ...
... difficult forms , but even of ἡ μοῦσα and ἡ φιλία , which belong to the first rudiments of the first declension . Every year I am obliged to put my pupils on the first elements of Greek Grammar , before I can ad- vance them to the study ...
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Página 66 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Página 89 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 106 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 13 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Página 86 - I HAVE often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man. A man, who gets into a habit of inquiring about proprieties and expediencies and occasions, often spends his life without doing any thing to purpose.
Página xi - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,
Página 66 - Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi; if you wish me to weep, you must yourself first weep.
Página 39 - It may be further observed, that if there be any thing that can be called genius in matters of mere judgment and reasoning, it seems to consist chiefly in being able to give that attention to the subject which keeps it steady in the mind, till we can survey it accurately on all sides.
Página 43 - I have never yet engaged in any exercise, which afforded more salutary discipline of this sort, than that of translating difficult passages from a foreign language. I have sometimes spent whole hours, on even a preposition or an adverb ; but I am very certain, that few of my hours have been spent to better purpose, in their influence over the habits of the mind.
Página 66 - I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that, whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, WHEN SUCH A MAN WOULD SPEAK, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well ordered files, as he would wish, fall abruptly into their own places.