Lecture Delivered Before the Georgia Historical Society, February 29th and March 4th, 1844, on the Subject of EducationPress of Locke and Davis, 1844 - 24 ページ |
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... remains which lie richly embedded along your coast . Whilst interspersing with , and giving variety to , the disclosures of the past , others might unfold the advantages of our commanding local position , and show how nature intended ...
... remains which lie richly embedded along your coast . Whilst interspersing with , and giving variety to , the disclosures of the past , others might unfold the advantages of our commanding local position , and show how nature intended ...
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... remains undescribed and unsung when he lifts his telescope against the heavens , or with ' his retort and crucible in hand goes forth and puts nature to the torture to reveal her secrets when he sees what the pencil and chisel have done ...
... remains undescribed and unsung when he lifts his telescope against the heavens , or with ' his retort and crucible in hand goes forth and puts nature to the torture to reveal her secrets when he sees what the pencil and chisel have done ...
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... remain uneducated , is equally clear . But the practical question is , after all , embarrassed with difficulties ; legislative control is a very uncertain patron of letters ; party spirit is often very unclassical in its tastes ...
... remain uneducated , is equally clear . But the practical question is , after all , embarrassed with difficulties ; legislative control is a very uncertain patron of letters ; party spirit is often very unclassical in its tastes ...
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... remains . I repeat it , the most finished of uninspired productions on earth are those of the Greeks and Latins ; they have gone to the ultima Thule of refinement , the perfection of style . The works of literature and art of ... remain , 16.
... remains . I repeat it , the most finished of uninspired productions on earth are those of the Greeks and Latins ; they have gone to the ultima Thule of refinement , the perfection of style . The works of literature and art of ... remain , 16.
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Samuel Kennedy Talmage. ever have been , and probably ever will remain , the standards and models of perfection . The overweening arrogance of many super- ficial moderns , in talking of the improvements and advancement of the modern ...
Samuel Kennedy Talmage. ever have been , and probably ever will remain , the standards and models of perfection . The overweening arrogance of many super- ficial moderns , in talking of the improvements and advancement of the modern ...
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11 ページ - Yet must I think less wildly:— I have thought Too long and darkly; till my brain became, In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame: And thus, untaught in youth my heart to tame, My springs of life were poisoned.
10 ページ - ... prevented his allowing such an opportunity to pass unimproved. "The object of education," says he, "is to make man intelligent, wise, useful, happy. In its enlarged sense, it is to prepare him for action and felicity in two worlds," — p. 8. What, then, is the natural order of imparting this education? "In childhood, the first object is to exercise the senses, and learn the qualities of those things on which life and health and freedom from pain depend,
12 ページ - ... best mode of college organization." In which last he decides, that it is better to have many well educated than a few profoundly instructed, — and, of consequence, that many colleges, scattered through the country, are to be preferred to one or two great central ones. "Eaton and Harrow, of England, are far more efficient sources of discipline and enlightenment than Oxford and Cambridge.