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... hope of addressing , with acceptance , words which insisted on the guilt of pride , and the futility of avarice ; from these , if from any , I once expected ratification of a political economy , which asserted that the life was more ...
... hope of addressing , with acceptance , words which insisted on the guilt of pride , and the futility of avarice ; from these , if from any , I once expected ratification of a political economy , which asserted that the life was more ...
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... hope , and unconfronted fear . We usually believe in immortality , so far as to avoid preparation for death ; and in mortality , so far as to avoid preparation for anything after death . Whereas , a wise man will at least hold himself ...
... hope , and unconfronted fear . We usually believe in immortality , so far as to avoid preparation for death ; and in mortality , so far as to avoid preparation for anything after death . Whereas , a wise man will at least hold himself ...
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... hope , may have rendered this painful creed the only possible one , there is an appeal to be made , more secure than any which can be addressed to happier persons . Might not a preacher , in comfortless , but faithful , zeal — from the ...
... hope , may have rendered this painful creed the only possible one , there is an appeal to be made , more secure than any which can be addressed to happier persons . Might not a preacher , in comfortless , but faithful , zeal — from the ...
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... hope , and therefore no such excuse . This fate , which you ordain for the wretched , you believe to be all their inheritance ; you may crush them , before the moth , and they will never rise to rebuke you ; —their breath , which fails ...
... hope , and therefore no such excuse . This fate , which you ordain for the wretched , you believe to be all their inheritance ; you may crush them , before the moth , and they will never rise to rebuke you ; —their breath , which fails ...
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... feelings , and with what hope , I regard this Institute , as one of many such , now happily estab- lished throughout England , as well as in other countries ; and preparing the way for a great change ( 21 ) INTRODUCTORY I LECTURE I WORK.
... feelings , and with what hope , I regard this Institute , as one of many such , now happily estab- lished throughout England , as well as in other countries ; and preparing the way for a great change ( 21 ) INTRODUCTORY I LECTURE I WORK.
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Página 87 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Página 112 - Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them: she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fed there till wanted.
Página 75 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Página 157 - Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know — it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Página 112 - Fire!' is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them.
Página 69 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Página 58 - Then the third character of right childhood is to be Loving and Generous. Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. It loves everything near it, when it is a right kind of child — would...
Página 87 - Cross, the Milanese boar, semi-fleeced, with the town of Gennesaret proper, in the field; and the legend, "In the best market," and her corslet, of leather, folded over her heart in the shape of a purse, with thirty slits in it, for a piece of money to go in at, on each day of the month. And I doubt not but that people would come to see your exchange, and its goddess, with applause.
Página 66 - And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things : — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
Página 157 - It is not teaching the youth of England the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers ; and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It is, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls. It is a painful, continual, and difficult work ; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.