Education Abroad, and Other PapersA. S. Barnes and Company, 1873 - 176 páginas |
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Página 105 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 121 - IT is not work that kills men ; it is worry. "Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
Página 129 - He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Página 119 - Mental Philosophy is only another name for a thorough and scientific knowledge of human nature. It deals with those first principles which are the foundation of all knowledge and philosophy, literature and theology. Infidelity itself is ever traceable to some false philosophy. "All Sciences," says Hume, " have a relation to human nature, and, however wide they may seem to roam from it, they still return back by one passage or another; this is the centre and capitol of the Sciences, which being once...
Página 103 - ... method to the endless diversities of mind and character. The difficulty of understanding little children is exceeded only by its importance. The internal history of a child is veiled from us, because it lies so far back of our present experience. In our eagerness to " put away childish things," we too soon forget how we " spake as a child, understood as a child, and thought as a child.
Página 148 - ... to maintain their present one. . . I found that it is the want of industrial education in this country, which prevents our manufacturers from making that progress which other nations are making.
Página 147 - I am sorry to say, that although we may still be unsurpassed in many of our productions, we no longer hold that preeminence which was accorded to us in 1831.
Página 84 - It is un-American and unadapted to our free institutions. To put the question in the most offensive form, it may be asked, "Would you have policemen drag your children to school?
Página 105 - The evil is hardly less serious in the school than it would be in the household. "What would be the effect of a semi-annual change of clerks and book-keepers in our mercantile establishments, or of agents and overseers in our manufactories, or of financiers in our banks, or of masters of oar merchantmen, or commanders of our iron-clads, or of doctors in our families, or of pastors in our parishes?
Página 106 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.