The British EducatorThomas Murray, 1856 |
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... force of old associations has urged you on the track of our younger literary ambitions . Fr. What are you going to tune your lyre to anything meaner than a great theme ? Ed . To a great theme I attune my mind ; may it reach the due ...
... force of old associations has urged you on the track of our younger literary ambitions . Fr. What are you going to tune your lyre to anything meaner than a great theme ? Ed . To a great theme I attune my mind ; may it reach the due ...
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... force of custom , especially in such a city as this , where , as I am told , buying and selling , giving and getting gain , watching the markets in their rise and fall , and all the thousand business cares that come full laden with the ...
... force of custom , especially in such a city as this , where , as I am told , buying and selling , giving and getting gain , watching the markets in their rise and fall , and all the thousand business cares that come full laden with the ...
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... force- Who tell what planets yet shall run their course ; On the wide heaven of inventive mind What glorious orbs of genius yet be shrined ? Hark ! by his side hymns Caledonia's Bard , A kindred spirit in whose strain is heard ; And who ...
... force- Who tell what planets yet shall run their course ; On the wide heaven of inventive mind What glorious orbs of genius yet be shrined ? Hark ! by his side hymns Caledonia's Bard , A kindred spirit in whose strain is heard ; And who ...
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... force and splendour from the skies ! But what though King , Prince , Rulers pass'd him by , His was the soul of truest majesty ! His now a crown perpetual , brighter far Than deck'd his head who deign'd not break the bar Which kept him ...
... force and splendour from the skies ! But what though King , Prince , Rulers pass'd him by , His was the soul of truest majesty ! His now a crown perpetual , brighter far Than deck'd his head who deign'd not break the bar Which kept him ...
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... force of legitimate and reasonable argu- ment , to storm their lines , seize upon their citadel , and unfurl what we believe to be a truer banner . Dr Whewell maintains that " Greek and Latin are peculiar and indispensable elements to a ...
... force of legitimate and reasonable argu- ment , to storm their lines , seize upon their citadel , and unfurl what we believe to be a truer banner . Dr Whewell maintains that " Greek and Latin are peculiar and indispensable elements to a ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Anglo-Saxon beautiful called character Charles Lamb child Christian Church classic Cockburn Coleridge colour Demosthenes divine duty Edinburgh Review eloquence English English language establishment eternity existence expression father feel genius give Glasgow glorious glory Government grammar Greek hand heart heaven honour human ignorance intellectual knowledge labour language Latin learned light living look Lord Lord Advocate Lord John Russell Lord Kinnaird manly matter means ment mental mind moral National Education nature never noble o'er object parents Pestalozzi philosophy picture principle Protestant pupils reason religion religious instruction Romanists Saxon scheme schools Scotland Scottish secular sense Sir William Sir William Hamilton soul speak spirit sublime taught teachers teaching thee thin red line things thou thought tion tongue true truth views voice Voluntaryism words youth Yverdon
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 118 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Seite 109 - To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths ; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
Seite 189 - Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest : behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Seite 81 - The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables.
Seite 152 - tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Seite 189 - And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me : nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Seite 118 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible, as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.
Seite 235 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers. And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Seite 39 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this — That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Seite 151 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, 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.