Essays for College Men: 2d SeriesH. Holt, 1915 - 385 páginas |
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... future life . If we cannot learn everything , should we not , in what we do learn , have regard mainly , if not exclusively , to the account to which our acquirements can be turned in the particular calling or profession to which we are ...
... future life . If we cannot learn everything , should we not , in what we do learn , have regard mainly , if not exclusively , to the account to which our acquirements can be turned in the particular calling or profession to which we are ...
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... future vocation of the student has been introduced . But though there is no doubt a measure of truth in this popular and common - sense solution of the problem , there are one or two things to be con- sidered before we adopt it as a ...
... future vocation of the student has been introduced . But though there is no doubt a measure of truth in this popular and common - sense solution of the problem , there are one or two things to be con- sidered before we adopt it as a ...
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... future poet or artist , the coming orator or statesman , can be discerned ere he has well left the nursery ; but I fear that such fore- castings are in general due only to partial or parental observations , or to the biographer's tend ...
... future poet or artist , the coming orator or statesman , can be discerned ere he has well left the nursery ; but I fear that such fore- castings are in general due only to partial or parental observations , or to the biographer's tend ...
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... future poet or musician are no more melodious than those of his tuneless brother . The incipient divine or philosopher does not foreshadow his career in a premature air of thoughtful gravity impressed on his countenance . Even when we ...
... future poet or musician are no more melodious than those of his tuneless brother . The incipient divine or philosopher does not foreshadow his career in a premature air of thoughtful gravity impressed on his countenance . Even when we ...
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... future calling or profession , is that it is one great aim of education to protect us from the narrowing influence of all , even of the so - called liberal , professions . I must pass by this point , however , with only a single remark ...
... future calling or profession , is that it is one great aim of education to protect us from the narrowing influence of all , even of the so - called liberal , professions . I must pass by this point , however , with only a single remark ...
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Página 255 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 256 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 60 - O'er-run and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer ; welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 99 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the street...
Página 377 - If now — and this is my idea — there were, instead of military conscription a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against nature, the injustice would tend to be evened out, and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would follow.
Página 83 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.'' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Página 75 - The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun ; and, after sunset, night and her stars. • Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages.
Página 377 - To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes-washing, and window-washing, to roadbuilding and tunnel-making, to foundries and stokeholes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas.
Página 81 - Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
Página 185 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.