University Extension: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Popular Education, Volumes 3-4

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J. Haseltine Shinn, 1894
 

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Página 7 - ' The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of "leisure, and he that hath little business shall become wise. " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that " glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in " their labors, and whose talk is of
Página 8 - congregation ; they shall not sit on the judges' seat, nor "understand the sentence of judgment; they cannot declare "justice and judgment; and they shall not be found where "parables are spoken. But they will maintain the state of " the world ; and their desire is in the work of their craft.
Página 26 - I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 447 - our means are greater than the nobleman's. New England can hire all the wise men in the world to come and teach her, and board them round the while and not be provincial at all. That is the uncommon school we want. Instead of noblemen let us have noble villages of men.
Página 447 - inhabitants the fellows of universities, with leisure—if they are indeed so well off—to pursue liberal studies the rest of their lives. Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever ? Cannot students be boarded here and get a liberal education under the skies of Concord ? Can we not hire some Abelard to lecture to us
Página 349 - The most familiar objects to man, like air and water, are nothing more to the untutored intellect of man than the primrose was to Peter Bell— " A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.
Página 9 - his heart to resort early to the Lord "that made him, and will pray before the Most High, and '' will open his mouth in prayer, and make supplication for " his sins. When the great Lord will he shall be filled with "the spirit of understanding;
Página 447 - If we live in the nineteenth century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the nineteenth century offers ? Why should our life be in any respect provincial ? . . . As the nobleman of cultivated taste surrounds himself with whatever conduces to his

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