Public Education: Consisting of Three Tracts, Reprinted from the Edinburgh Review, the Classical Journal, and the Pamphleteer : Together with the Defence of Public Schools by the Late Dean of WestminsterA.J. Valpy, 1817 - 224 páginas |
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Página 174 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ; for he is a god : either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Página 49 - Camden! most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know— How nothing's that! to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes! Than thee the age sees not that thing more grave. More high, more holy, that she more would crave. What name, what skill, what faith hast thou in things! What sight in searching the most antique springs! What weight, and what authority in thy speech!
Página 49 - Than thee the age sees not that thing more grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave. What name, what skill, what faith hast thou in things ! What sight in searching the most antique springs ! What weight, and what authority in thy speech ! Men scarce can make that doubt, but thou canst teach. Pardon free truth, and let thy modesty, Which conquers all, be once o'ercome by thee. Many of thine, this better could, than I ; But for their powers, accept my piety.
Página 85 - I mean to say is but this : there will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.
Página 44 - Almost every conspicuous person is supposed to have been educated at public schools ; and there are scarcely any means (as it is imagined) of making an actual comparison ; and yet, great as the rage is, and long has been, for public schools, it is very remarkable, that the most eminent men in every art and science have not been educated in public schools...
Página 207 - Shakspeare's Himself Again ; or the Language of the Poet asserted : being a full, but dispassionate Examen of the Readings and Interpretations of the several Editors.
Página 19 - If, on the contrary, there exists in these places of education a system of premature debauchery, and if they only prevent men from being corrupted by the world, by corrupting them before their entry into the world, they can then only be looked upon as evils of the greatest magnitude, however they may be sanctioned by opinion, or rendered familiar to us by habit.
Página 11 - ... yet, great as the rage is, and long has been, for public schools, it is very remarkable that the most eminent men in every art and science have not been educated in public schools ; and this is true even if we include in the term of public schools not only Eton, Winchester, and Westminster, but the Charterhouse, St Paul's School, Merchant Taylors', Rugby, and every school in England at all conducted upon the plan of the three first.
Página 34 - ... his children to them. This system also gives to the elder boys an absurd and pernicious opinion of their own importance, which is often with difficulty effaced by a considerable commerce with the world. The head of a public school...
Página 176 - Divines stood higher than all others in the estimation of Europe, for solidity of reasoning, and superiority of composition, what other cause can be assigned for it, but the excellence of the models by which their style was formed, and their judgment corrected I...