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... German tongues . This has been necessary in view of the obvious limitations of time and purpose . All such omissions may properly be reme- died during the discussion which is to follow . In conclusion , let me urge the teachers of New ...
... German tongues . This has been necessary in view of the obvious limitations of time and purpose . All such omissions may properly be reme- died during the discussion which is to follow . In conclusion , let me urge the teachers of New ...
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... German or French or English , would not excite a passing notice . There are immortal poets , whose immortality , my mature judgment tells me , is wholly due to the fact that they lived two thousand years ago . " He declares as the ...
... German or French or English , would not excite a passing notice . There are immortal poets , whose immortality , my mature judgment tells me , is wholly due to the fact that they lived two thousand years ago . " He declares as the ...
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... German tongue and its literature than be equally familiar with the Greek . I would unhesitatingly make the same choice for my child . What I have said of German as compared with Greek , I will also say of French as compared with Latin ...
... German tongue and its literature than be equally familiar with the Greek . I would unhesitatingly make the same choice for my child . What I have said of German as compared with Greek , I will also say of French as compared with Latin ...
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... German and French . Goethe was a German - Greek . Voltaire was a French- Greek . I do not mean to say that in later times great writers have not appeared who , out of the existing mate- rials of modern languages , have wrought the most ...
... German and French . Goethe was a German - Greek . Voltaire was a French- Greek . I do not mean to say that in later times great writers have not appeared who , out of the existing mate- rials of modern languages , have wrought the most ...
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... German , if his study of German had been charac- terized by a " limp superficiality , " and if now he had for- gotten the German alphabet and could not read all the German characters if he opened his Goethe , does Mr. Adams think he ...
... German , if his study of German had been charac- terized by a " limp superficiality , " and if now he had for- gotten the German alphabet and could not read all the German characters if he opened his Goethe , does Mr. Adams think he ...
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Página 25 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more : Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife: Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Página 80 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 234 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod, And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Página 158 - Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round ; In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.
Página 19 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Página 159 - I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Página 67 - I shall confine myself, however, to education in the narrower sense ; the culture which each generation purposely gives to those who are to be its successors, in order to qualify them for at least keeping up, and if possible for raising, the level of improvement which has been attained.
Página 187 - The instruction of the people in every kind of knowledge that can be of use to them in the practice of their moral duties as men, citizens, and Christians, and of their political and civil duties as members of society and freemen...
Página 158 - Large before, the country has now, by recent events, become vastly larger. This Republic now extends, with a vast breadth, across the whole Continent. The two great seas of the world wash the one and the other shore. We realize, on a mighty scale, the beautiful description of the ornamental...
Página 26 - Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.