Life of Joseph Green Cogswell as Sketched in His Letters

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Priv. print. at the Riverside Press, 1874 - 377 páginas
 

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Página 352 - We are deeply impressed with the necessity of uniting physical with moral education; and are particularly favored in executing our plans of connecting them by the assistance of a pupil and friend of Jahn, the greatest modern advocate of gymnastics.
Página 105 - I never thought to have found such a heart in him, and it almost broke my own to say adieu to him when I discovered it. And will you remember me, said he, when you are surrounded by your friends at home ; and may I believe that there is a heart in the New World which cares for me...
Página 363 - Superintendent of the Library, resigning his office as Trustee, in consequence of his removal from the State of New York, the Committee appointed to consider and report the steps proper to be taken by the Board, submitted the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : — Resolved, That the Trustees of the Astor Library deem it due to their late associate, and to the history of letters in America, to testify / not only their sincere regret...
Página 345 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Página 57 - ... rational observations upon its literary pretensions and character, than I ever heard from any man in Europe. We talked, also, of English and German literature. I told him of the interest we were now taking in the latter, and found a very convenient opportunity to introduce a few words of compliment to himself, which was the least return I could make for his civility...
Página 216 - Early in January, Mr. Astor consulted me about an appropriation of some three or four hundred thousand dollars, which he intended to leave for public purposes, and I urged him to give it for a library, which I finally brought him to agree to do...
Página 56 - I sent him my letters of introduction, with a note, asking when he would allow me to wait upon him. In one of the letters it was observed that I had some fondness for mineralogy, and was desirous of seeing the great cabinet, belonging to the society of which he is President at Jena.* In a few moments he returned me an answer, that he would meet me in the rooms of the Society at noon, and there show me all that was to be seen. I liked this, as it evinced some degree of modesty in him, inasmuch as...
Página 57 - A grand and graceful form worthy of a knight of the days of chivalry, with a dignity of manners that marked the court rather than the closet, such as belong to Goethe, are not often the external characteristics of a man of letters. Soon after being introduced to him, with the politeness of a real gentleman he turned the conversation to America and spoke of its hopes and promises in a manner that showed it had been the subject of his inquiries, and made juster and more rational observations upon its...
Página 115 - ... regrets, however, are more for himself than for the public, for I do not believe his system, carried to the extent he does, is the true method of storing the mind with knowledge. It would exclude memory altogether as a medium of instructing and make use of reason alone, which is absurd. Reason must be furnished with ideas for the materials of its ratiocinations, and many of these must be laid up in and recalled by the memory. » • • This is the misery of all systems, that the makers of them...
Página 264 - The readers average from one to two hundred daily, and they read excellent books, except the young fry, who employ all the hours they are out of school in reading the trashy, as Scott, Cooper, Dickens, Punch and the Illustrated News.

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