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Pagina xii
... spirit of Mason , and ever united the two great civilizing forces , religion and education , whose external expression is the church and the school - house , and whose most prominent actors , the minister and the school master . Under ...
... spirit of Mason , and ever united the two great civilizing forces , religion and education , whose external expression is the church and the school - house , and whose most prominent actors , the minister and the school master . Under ...
Pagina xxvi
... how lavish Nature has been in her displays of beauty , grandeur , and glory , in and about the waters , which are but a re- flex of the smile of the Great Spirit . THE EVENING SESSION . at 8.00 p . m . xxvi Journal of Proceedings .
... how lavish Nature has been in her displays of beauty , grandeur , and glory , in and about the waters , which are but a re- flex of the smile of the Great Spirit . THE EVENING SESSION . at 8.00 p . m . xxvi Journal of Proceedings .
Pagina 55
... spirit , but only to a fortuitous whirl and conglomeration of atoms , and who would have the young trained accordingly , I have at present no argument with him . I speak as a Christian , in the broad cath- olic sense , to Christian men ...
... spirit , but only to a fortuitous whirl and conglomeration of atoms , and who would have the young trained accordingly , I have at present no argument with him . I speak as a Christian , in the broad cath- olic sense , to Christian men ...
Pagina 58
... , -the jewels that even death cannot dim . With no sectarian narrowness , but in a generous catholic spirit , I would magnify its great fundamental teachings . I - would put into the hands of the pupil , while 58 President Smith's Lecture .
... , -the jewels that even death cannot dim . With no sectarian narrowness , but in a generous catholic spirit , I would magnify its great fundamental teachings . I - would put into the hands of the pupil , while 58 President Smith's Lecture .
Pagina 59
... spirit . Only the veriest Sadducees would satisfy their scruples . They speak of the rights of conscience . But have not we consciences as well as they , or those for whom they utter their plea ? They ignore the fact , moreover ...
... spirit . Only the veriest Sadducees would satisfy their scruples . They speak of the rights of conscience . But have not we consciences as well as they , or those for whom they utter their plea ? They ignore the fact , moreover ...
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Pagina xvi - There is no office higher than that of a teacher of youth, for there is nothing on earth so precious as the mind, soul, character of the child. No office should be regarded with greater respect. The first minds in the community should be encouraged to assume it. Parents should do all but impoverish themselves, to induce such to become the guardians and guides of their children.
Pagina 94 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; 900 Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Pagina 73 - I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all mannet of workmanship.
Pagina 58 - I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call from their excellence the Scriptures, contain (independently of a Divine origin) more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Pagina 97 - ... bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learnt from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Pagina 63 - We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what had been, and might have been, And who was changed, and who was dead...
Pagina 101 - A man should love and venerate his native language, as the first of his benefactors, as the awakener and stirrer of all his thoughts, the frame and mould and rule of his spiritual being, as the great bond and...
Pagina 96 - The reading of the works of two men, neither of them imbued with the spirit of modern science, neither of them, indeed, friendly to that spirit, has placed me here to-day.
Pagina 77 - College for the purpose of founding, under the direction and government of the corporation, overseers, and governors of that university, a new institution and professorship, in order to teach by regular courses of academical and public lectures, accompanied with proper experiments, the utility of the physical and mathematical sciences for the improvement of the useful arts, and for the extension of the industry, prosperity, happiness, and well-being of society.
Pagina 71 - And tears are on the mother's face, As parting with a long embrace She enters other realms of love ; Her office there to rear, to teach, Becoming as is meet and fit A link among the days, to knit The generations each with each...