Liberal Education, Or, A Practical Treatise on the Methods of Acquiring Useful and Polite Learning, Volumen1C. Dilly, 1785 |
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... speak or read with Propriety , and on Repetitions of Authors XXI . On infpiring Tafte 190 206 XXII . On the Study of Poetry in general 215 XXIII . On inspiring a Love of Letters , and the Ambition of obtaining a Li- terary Character 222 ...
... speak or read with Propriety , and on Repetitions of Authors XXI . On infpiring Tafte 190 206 XXII . On the Study of Poetry in general 215 XXIII . On inspiring a Love of Letters , and the Ambition of obtaining a Li- terary Character 222 ...
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... days , caufes a great degree of attention to be paid to Ducere verò claffem multo pulcherrimum . But to take the lead in the class is the highest bo- QUINTILIAN . nour . the the art of speaking ; an art , which , 32 ON PUBLIC AND.
... days , caufes a great degree of attention to be paid to Ducere verò claffem multo pulcherrimum . But to take the lead in the class is the highest bo- QUINTILIAN . nour . the the art of speaking ; an art , which , 32 ON PUBLIC AND.
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Vicesimus Knox. the art of speaking ; an art , which , from the de- fect of early culture , has been totally wanting in fome of our best divines ; many of whom ne- ver gave fatisfaction to a common audience , in preaching those ...
Vicesimus Knox. the art of speaking ; an art , which , from the de- fect of early culture , has been totally wanting in fome of our best divines ; many of whom ne- ver gave fatisfaction to a common audience , in preaching those ...
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... speaking , it will be found that boys have not collected ideas , or language enough to compofe any thing before twelve or thirteen . His firft effort fhould be , to write from memory fome of fop's Fables in his own words , grammatically ...
... speaking , it will be found that boys have not collected ideas , or language enough to compofe any thing before twelve or thirteen . His firft effort fhould be , to write from memory fome of fop's Fables in his own words , grammatically ...
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... speak of a student who is to make a folid improvement . Youth would have caufe to complain , if they were condemned to fpend FIGHT or TEN of the beft years of their life in learning , at a great ex- pence , and with incredible pains ...
... speak of a student who is to make a folid improvement . Youth would have caufe to complain , if they were condemned to fpend FIGHT or TEN of the beft years of their life in learning , at a great ex- pence , and with incredible pains ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 236 - ... moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Their inventions are not only the food of our infancy, but the substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour.
Página 167 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Página 73 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hillside, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 167 - But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and 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...
Página 297 - In which methodical course, it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward, as at convenient times for memory's sake to retire back into the middle ward, and sometimes into the rear of what they have been taught, until they have confirmed and solidly united the whole body of their perfected knowledge, like the last embattling of a Roman legion.
Página 72 - ... and, although they may be, and too often are, drawn by the temptations of youth, and the opportunities of a large fortune, into some irregularities when they come forward into the great world, it is ever with reluctance and compunction of mind, because their bias to virtue still continues. They may stray sometimes out of infirmity or compliance, but they will soon return to the right road and keep it always in view.
Página 237 - ... been carefully collected and thoroughly digested. There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention ; and if he has not the power of using them, it must proceed from a feebleness of intellect, or from the confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is...
Página 237 - ... discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock: he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will never be difficult to guess what kind of work is to be produced.
Página 236 - When we have had continually before us the great works of Art to impregnate our minds with kindred ideas, we are then, and not till then, fit to produce something of the same species. We behold all about us with the eyes of those penetrating observers whose works we contemplate ; and our minds, accustomed to think the thoughts of the noblest and brightest intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature.
Página 239 - I would wish to find the three together : for how great soever a genius may be, and how much soever he may acquire new light and heat as he proceeds in his rapid course, certain it is that he will never shine...