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... Greek is taught or has been taught at Harvard in the manner which Mr. Adams represents , but whether if taught , as all will con- cede it should be taught in the best practicable man- ner — it is still a “ college fetish . ” Mr. Adams ...
... Greek is taught or has been taught at Harvard in the manner which Mr. Adams represents , but whether if taught , as all will con- cede it should be taught in the best practicable man- ner — it is still a “ college fetish . ” Mr. Adams ...
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... Greek language as an instrument of educational training for us ? It consists , first , in the fact that the Greek language is an ancient language ; in the remoteness of the period in which it arose and took its form . The Greeks were ...
... Greek language as an instrument of educational training for us ? It consists , first , in the fact that the Greek language is an ancient language ; in the remoteness of the period in which it arose and took its form . The Greeks were ...
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... Greek mind was unequalled in its mastery of all the materials of knowledge then available for the discov- ery of the rules of thought , the absolute and true intel- lectual methods ; while in a certain sense of proportion , a due ...
... Greek mind was unequalled in its mastery of all the materials of knowledge then available for the discov- ery of the rules of thought , the absolute and true intel- lectual methods ; while in a certain sense of proportion , a due ...
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... Greek Tragedy as a form of literary production , he was likewise , the inventor of the drama as a form of imitative Art , and his themes , his ideas , his tone , the color of his genius and spirit as now shown in all his principal works ...
... Greek Tragedy as a form of literary production , he was likewise , the inventor of the drama as a form of imitative Art , and his themes , his ideas , his tone , the color of his genius and spirit as now shown in all his principal works ...
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... Greek literature presents Demosthenes . For my own part , there is hardly a career in statesmanship , and the conduct and shaping of public affairs , which seems to me better deserving the study of the statesman of to - day . The period ...
... Greek literature presents Demosthenes . For my own part , there is hardly a career in statesmanship , and the conduct and shaping of public affairs , which seems to me better deserving the study of the statesman of to - day . The period ...
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Página 82 - 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 238 - 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 28 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. 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.
Página 27 - 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.
Página 162 - 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 21 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Página 163 - I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Página 69 - 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 191 - 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 162 - 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...