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Pagina 7
... learning the acquiring of which is education . Such I find to be the prevalent view , and the effect of it is that the whole modern period is in the general mind a dark age , a subject almost entirely unknown . How mischievous and ...
... learning the acquiring of which is education . Such I find to be the prevalent view , and the effect of it is that the whole modern period is in the general mind a dark age , a subject almost entirely unknown . How mischievous and ...
Pagina 12
... learning and profound research . We may at times say half in joke that after all Sir Walter Scott is the best historian of the Middle Ages ; nevertheless when Waitz traces the history of German institutions , or John Allen the growth of ...
... learning and profound research . We may at times say half in joke that after all Sir Walter Scott is the best historian of the Middle Ages ; nevertheless when Waitz traces the history of German institutions , or John Allen the growth of ...
Pagina 14
... learning ; on that point only specialists can speak ; they can only say whether it is dull or lively . Accordingly , in the absence of specialists , all writers become alike to them except in the article of liveliness . And if you watch ...
... learning ; on that point only specialists can speak ; they can only say whether it is dull or lively . Accordingly , in the absence of specialists , all writers become alike to them except in the article of liveliness . And if you watch ...
Pagina 23
... learning a subject successfully when we feel intensely interested in it . But often it is precisely this interest that intercepts knowledge , when we resolve to see what we wish , and refuse to see what pains us . The love of truth for ...
... learning a subject successfully when we feel intensely interested in it . But often it is precisely this interest that intercepts knowledge , when we resolve to see what we wish , and refuse to see what pains us . The love of truth for ...
Pagina 75
... learning beside the venerable shrine of St. Fridesewide . We shall be the better able to comprehend Duns Scotus and the schoolmen as we stand in the ancient quadrangle of Merton , or listen to the dim traditions of Brasenose . Medieval ...
... learning beside the venerable shrine of St. Fridesewide . We shall be the better able to comprehend Duns Scotus and the schoolmen as we stand in the ancient quadrangle of Merton , or listen to the dim traditions of Brasenose . Medieval ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 67 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 24 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Pagina 26 - Art, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Pagina 72 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Pagina 74 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Pagina 90 - Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage ; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe; Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Pagina 86 - Threatning to bind our soules with secular chaines : Helpe us to save free Conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose Gospell is their maw.
Pagina 64 - I saw several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched ! 8th.