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... writers do well to study the ancient forms of speech . We may mark the decline of style in writing as we do the decline of style in the imitative arts , by the use of the excess of ornament for its own sake . The orator or writer who ...
... writers do well to study the ancient forms of speech . We may mark the decline of style in writing as we do the decline of style in the imitative arts , by the use of the excess of ornament for its own sake . The orator or writer who ...
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... writing comes near to these in teaching , both by precept and example , the way to investigate truth , on subjects ... writers think of these things , but they fall far short of unfolding to us the true spirit and nature of ancient ideas ...
... writing comes near to these in teaching , both by precept and example , the way to investigate truth , on subjects ... writers think of these things , but they fall far short of unfolding to us the true spirit and nature of ancient ideas ...
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... useful here . We may get a hint of this by reading the Federalist papers . What immense resources of historical knowledge have the writers drawn upon in explaining and illustrating the provisions SPECIAL PREPARATION FOR CITIZENSHIP . 79.
... useful here . We may get a hint of this by reading the Federalist papers . What immense resources of historical knowledge have the writers drawn upon in explaining and illustrating the provisions SPECIAL PREPARATION FOR CITIZENSHIP . 79.
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... writers drawn upon in explaining and illustrating the provisions of the constitution ! The historical work in schools should thus richly endow the graduating student ; so doing , it would furnish some preparation for citizen- ship . But ...
... writers drawn upon in explaining and illustrating the provisions of the constitution ! The historical work in schools should thus richly endow the graduating student ; so doing , it would furnish some preparation for citizen- ship . But ...
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... writing in the English schools . Books were scarce . There was the Bible everywhere and always . There was the " Bay State Psalm Book " that sounded the depths of poetry if it didn't scale the heights . For more than one hundred years ...
... writing in the English schools . Books were scarce . There was the Bible everywhere and always . There was the " Bay State Psalm Book " that sounded the depths of poetry if it didn't scale the heights . For more than one hundred years ...
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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.