The Method Off Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physics, &c. ...W.J. and J. Richardson, J. Walker, 1804 - Education |
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... opinion , that the death of great men and ministers should not be insignificant or useless to the common- wealth , but a consequence of their administration , one of their most considerable actions , and as honourable , if not more so ...
... opinion , that the death of great men and ministers should not be insignificant or useless to the common- wealth , but a consequence of their administration , one of their most considerable actions , and as honourable , if not more so ...
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... opinion [ y ] that this gold and silver should be thrown out of the city with horror and execration , as a fatal plague and a dangerous allurement to all kinds of mischief . But others , and the far greater number , proposed a middle ...
... opinion [ y ] that this gold and silver should be thrown out of the city with horror and execration , as a fatal plague and a dangerous allurement to all kinds of mischief . But others , and the far greater number , proposed a middle ...
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... opinion , shews better of what real merit is capable , and of what service great officers are to a state , than what happened at Thebes in a very short space of time . This city was very weak in itself , and but lately in a manner ...
... opinion , shews better of what real merit is capable , and of what service great officers are to a state , than what happened at Thebes in a very short space of time . This city was very weak in itself , and but lately in a manner ...
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... opinion , that greatness of soul consisted principally in suffering these trials without concern , complaining , or abating any thing of his zeal for the public good ; [ g ] be- cause the ill usage of our country , like that of our ...
... opinion , that greatness of soul consisted principally in suffering these trials without concern , complaining , or abating any thing of his zeal for the public good ; [ g ] be- cause the ill usage of our country , like that of our ...
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... opinion that all the vices of the young Dionysius pro- ceeded only from his bad education , endeavoured to introduce him into good conversation , and gave him a taste of discourse capable of improving his manners . To this end he ...
... opinion that all the vices of the young Dionysius pro- ceeded only from his bad education , endeavoured to introduce him into good conversation , and gave him a taste of discourse capable of improving his manners . To this end he ...
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Page 402 - And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented...
Page 334 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 445 - QUINCTILIAN says, that he has included almost all the duty of scholars in this one piece of advice which he gives them, to love those who teach them, as they love the sciences which they...
Page 334 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son : but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Page 291 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 322 - Things, and not when we stop at them; when they serve us as Preparatives and Instruments for better Knowledge, without which the rest would be useless. Youth would have Cause to complain, if they were condemned to spend eight or ten of the best Years of their Life in learning, at a great Expence, and with incredible Pains, one or two Languages, and some other Matters of a like Nature, which perhaps they would seldom have Occasion to use. The end of Masters, in the long Course of their Studies, is...
Page 307 - Now what is it but good education which enables all the citizens and great men, and princes above the rest, to perform their different functions in a deserving manner? Is it not evident that youth are as the nursery of the state? That it is renewed and perpetuated by them? That from among them all the fathers of families, all magistrates and ministers, in a word, all persons placed in authority and power are taken?
Page 322 - The end of Masters, in the long Course of their Studies, is to habituate their Scholars to serious Application of Mind, to make them love and value the Sciences, and to cultivate in them such a Taste, as shall make them thirst after them when they are gone from School...
Page 447 - Quintillian sets upon the talents of the mind, he esteems those of the heart far beyond them, and looks upon the others as of no value without them. In the same chapter...
Page 445 - The one can do nothing without the other; and as it is not sufficient for a labourer to sow the seed, unless the earth, after having opened its bosom to receive it...