ProceedingsJ. Murray., 1915 |
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Pagina 15 - Euclid's, and show by construction that its truth was known to us ; to demonstrate, for example, that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal...
Pagina 34 - ... it argues in what good plight and constitution the body is ; so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention...
Pagina 99 - EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth's foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.
Pagina 30 - Thy voice is heard thro' rolling drums, That beat to battle where he stands; Thy face across his fancy comes, And gives the battle to his hands : A moment, while the trumpets blow...
Pagina 45 - Premature specialisation on any one particular group of studies, whether humanistic or scientific, to the exclusion of all others, is a serious danger, not only to education generally, but to the studies concerned. (3) Humanistic education implies the adequate study of language and literature, geography and history, which in each case should, at the appropriate stages of education, go beyond the pupils
Pagina 129 - Empire which has been recommended by a special resolution of the Council ; the place to be selected at the previous General Meeting. 8. The President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretaries, and Council shall be elected at the General Meeting, but vacancies occurring in the course of the year may be filled up temporarily by the Council. 9. The President shall be elected for one year, and shall not be eligible for re-election until after the lapse of five years. 10. The Vice- Presidents, the Treasurer,...
Pagina 31 - Think in particular of one passage of 130 lines, the description of the Shield of Achilles in the eighteenth book of the Iliad, where many scenes of peace and war, of labour and rejoicing, are presented with incomparable vigour and fidelity.
Pagina 169 - ... omnia recondita, splendida, excelsa conveniunt; hanc saepius ossa, musculi, nervi, illam tori quidam et quasi iubae decent; haec vel maxime vi, amaritudine, instantia (1), illa tractu et suavitate atque etiam dulcedine placet; postremo alia verba, alius sonus, alia constructio.
Pagina 84 - And as to Progress, it is no doubt a real fact. To many -of us it is a truth that lies somewhere near the roots of our religion. But it is never a straight march forward ; it is never a result that happens of its own accord. It is only a name for the mass of accumulated human effort, successful here, baffled there, misdirected and driven astray in a third region, but on the whole and in the main producing some cumulative result. I believe this difficulty about Progress, this fear that in studying...
Pagina 21 - ... who have the kind of gift which makes it worth while to take them out of the mass and give them due facilities for pursuing these studies at the higher secondary schools, so that they may proceed thence to the universities and further prosecute them there. Many of you, as teachers, know better than I how this problem may be solved. Solved it must be, if the whole community is not to lose the benefit of our system of graded schools.