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... opinions of great writers in their own language . Where I am simply acting as reporter , the author's own way of expressing himself is obviously the best ; and if , following the example of the gypsies and Sir Fretful Plagiary , I had ...
... opinions of great writers in their own language . Where I am simply acting as reporter , the author's own way of expressing himself is obviously the best ; and if , following the example of the gypsies and Sir Fretful Plagiary , I had ...
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... opinions of an author , one of two methods must be adopted ; we may give an epitome of all that he has said , or by confining ourselves to his most valuable and characteristic opinions , may gain space to give these fully . As I detest ...
... opinions of an author , one of two methods must be adopted ; we may give an epitome of all that he has said , or by confining ourselves to his most valuable and characteristic opinions , may gain space to give these fully . As I detest ...
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... opinions were to be as much as possible suppressed . To secure this a rigid system of supervision was adopted , and reports were furnished by each officer to his immedi- ate superior . Over all stood the General of the Order . Next came ...
... opinions were to be as much as possible suppressed . To secure this a rigid system of supervision was adopted , and reports were furnished by each officer to his immedi- ate superior . Over all stood the General of the Order . Next came ...
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... opinions of his preceptors , when he was skillful in dispute , and could make a brilliant display from the resources of a well - stored memory , he had reached the highest point to which the Jesuit sought to lead him . Originality and ...
... opinions of his preceptors , when he was skillful in dispute , and could make a brilliant display from the resources of a well - stored memory , he had reached the highest point to which the Jesuit sought to lead him . Originality and ...
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... opinion and that of their contemporaries , the champions of freedom . I have given elsewhere a remarkable passage from Colet , in which he recommends the leaving of rules and the study of examples in good Latin authors . Wolsey also ...
... opinion and that of their contemporaries , the champions of freedom . I have given elsewhere a remarkable passage from Colet , in which he recommends the leaving of rules and the study of examples in good Latin authors . Wolsey also ...
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Page 299 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 71 - there is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses...
Page 227 - In what way to treat the body; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs; in what way to bring up a family; in what way to behave as a citizen; in what way to utilize all those sources of happiness which nature supplies— how to use all our faculties to the greatest advantage of ourselves and others— how to live completely?
Page 297 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 89 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind.
Page 83 - But till you can find a school, wherein it is possible for the master to look after the manners of his scholars, and can show as great effects of his care of forming their minds to virtue, and their carriage to good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages ; you must confess, that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and...
Page 247 - The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind as considered historically; or in other words, the genesis of knowledge in the individual must follow the same course as the genesis of knowledge in the race.
Page 299 - Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure.
Page 227 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Page 97 - ... to give him some little taste of what his own industry must perfect. For who expects that under a tutor a young gentleman should be an accomplished critic, orator, or logician; go to the bottom of metaphysics, natural philosophy or mathematics, or be a master in history or chronology? though something of each of these is to be taught him ; but it is only to open the door, that he may look in, and as it were begin an acquaintance, but not to dwell there...