Letters to a Young Student: In the First Stage of a Liberal EducationPerkins & Marvin, 1832 - 174 páginas |
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... neglecting a due care of health- Practicability of preserving good health during a course of hard study - Food - Exercise - Mental relax- ation - Sleep - Early rising - Eye - sight - Use of tobac- co - Care of health a Christian duty ...
... neglecting a due care of health- Practicability of preserving good health during a course of hard study - Food - Exercise - Mental relax- ation - Sleep - Early rising - Eye - sight - Use of tobac- co - Care of health a Christian duty ...
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... neglecting a due care of health- Practicability of preserving good health during a course of hard study - Food - Exercise - Mental relax- ation - Sleep - Early rising - Eye - sight - Use of tobac- co - Care of health a Christian duty ...
... neglecting a due care of health- Practicability of preserving good health during a course of hard study - Food - Exercise - Mental relax- ation - Sleep - Early rising - Eye - sight - Use of tobac- co - Care of health a Christian duty ...
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... Value of time - Absence during term- time - Neglect of prescribed exercises - Punctuality -Economy - Religious reading - Caution against be- ing proud of intellectual attainments - Courtesy - Cau- tions iv CONTENTS .
... Value of time - Absence during term- time - Neglect of prescribed exercises - Punctuality -Economy - Religious reading - Caution against be- ing proud of intellectual attainments - Courtesy - Cau- tions iv CONTENTS .
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... neglecting a due care of health- Practicability of preserving good health during a course of hard study - Food - Exercise - Mental relax- ation - Sleep - Early rising - Eye - sight - Use of tobac- co - Care of health a Christian duty ...
... neglecting a due care of health- Practicability of preserving good health during a course of hard study - Food - Exercise - Mental relax- ation - Sleep - Early rising - Eye - sight - Use of tobac- co - Care of health a Christian duty ...
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... Value of time - Absence during term- time - Neglect of prescribed exercises - Punctuality -Economy - Religious reading - Caution against be- 109-136 ing proud of intellectual attainments - Courtesy - Cau- tions iv CONTENTS .
... Value of time - Absence during term- time - Neglect of prescribed exercises - Punctuality -Economy - Religious reading - Caution against be- 109-136 ing proud of intellectual attainments - Courtesy - Cau- tions iv CONTENTS .
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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.