Inaugural Addresses of Theodore W. Dwight: Professor of Law, and of George P. Marsh, Professor of English Literature, in Columbia College, New YorkBy authority of the Trustees, 1859 - 93 ページ |
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37 ページ - Es erben sich Gesetz- und Rechte Wie eine ewge Krankheit fort, Sie schleppen von Geschlecht sich zum Geschlechte, Und rücken sacht von Ort zu Ort. Vernunft wird Unsinn, Wohltat Plage; Weh dir, daß du ein Enkel bist! Vom Rechte, das mit uns geboren ist, Von dem ist leider nie die Frage.
2 ページ - ... if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way...
48 ページ - He lived to see four sons sitting together in the House of Lords, — Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Denman, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. To the unspeakable advantage of having been three years his pupil I chiefly ascribe my success at the bar.
76 ページ - Except in mere mechanical matters, and even there far more imperfectly, we have adopted the principle of the division of labor to a more limited extent than any modern civilized nation. Every man is a dabbler, if not a master, in every knowledge. Every man is a divine, a physician, and a lawyer to himself, as well as a counsellor to his neighbors, in all the interests involved in the sciences appropriately belonging to these professions.
86 ページ - ... that his metrical system was in perfect accordance with the orthoepy of his age, and it was near two centuries before any improvements were made upon his diction or his numbers. I remarked that there are circumstances in the position and the external relations of the English language, which recommend its earnest study and cultivation. I refer, of course, to the commanding political influence, the wide-spread territory, and the commercial importance of the two great mother-countries whose vernacular...
61 ページ - ... seems to be presupposed as the basis of all education, and especially as an indispensable preparation for the reception of academic instruction. It is doubtless for this reason, that, in our American system of education, the study of the English language has usually been almost wholly excluded from the collegial curriculum, and recently indeed from humbler seminaries ; and therefore so great a novelty as its abrupt transfer from the nursery to the auditorium of a post-graduate course, may seem...
55 ページ - I may safely affirm, that there is nothing herein but may either open some windows of the law, to let in more light to the student by diligent search to see the secrets of the law, or to move him to doubt, ami withal to enable him to inquire and learn of the sages, what the law, together with the true reason thereof, in these cases is...
39 ページ - ... yet education might surely do more to root in us the feeling of unity with our fellow-creatures. At any rate, 1 Bacon. if we do not study in this spirit, all our learning will but leave us as weak and sad as Faust. " I've now, alas ! Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labour studied through, And here I stand, with all my lore Poor fool, no wiser than before.
69 ページ - ... this condition of English is an evil. There are many cases where a complex and cunningly-devised machine, dexterously guided, can do that which the congenital hand fails to accomplish ; but the computing of our losses and gains, the striking of our linguistic balance, belongs elsewhere. Suffice it to say, that English is not a language which teaches itself by mere unreflecting usage. It can be mastered, in all its wealth, in all its power, only by conscious, persistent labor...
55 ページ - And for a farewell to our jurisprudent, I wish unto him the gladsome light of jurisprudence, the loveliness of temperance, the stability of fortitude, and the solidity of justice.