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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... things on which life , and health , and freedom from pain depend . In early youth , a knowledge of letters and the simplest rudiments of science is all that can be infused into the mind . It is true , there are important moral lessons ...
... things on which life , and health , and freedom from pain depend . In early youth , a knowledge of letters and the simplest rudiments of science is all that can be infused into the mind . It is true , there are important moral lessons ...
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... thing that is sound and solid suffers . What is the prospect , think you , for literary appropriations in a Legislature , where an honorable Senator is able to correspond with his absent family only by the aid of an amanuensis , and ...
... thing that is sound and solid suffers . What is the prospect , think you , for literary appropriations in a Legislature , where an honorable Senator is able to correspond with his absent family only by the aid of an amanuensis , and ...
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... an intimate knowledge of that refined language , which was the medium of communication and the vehicle of thought to these giant minds . It is not surprising that CATO should have been converted from his hostility to every thing 18.
... an intimate knowledge of that refined language , which was the medium of communication and the vehicle of thought to these giant minds . It is not surprising that CATO should have been converted from his hostility to every thing 18.
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Samuel Kennedy Talmage. should have been converted from his hostility to every thing Greek , and have applied himself , in his old age , to the study of a language so rich in lessons of wisdom and virtue . In the Fine Arts - in sculpture ...
Samuel Kennedy Talmage. should have been converted from his hostility to every thing Greek , and have applied himself , in his old age , to the study of a language so rich in lessons of wisdom and virtue . In the Fine Arts - in sculpture ...
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... intimate knowledge of that refined language , which was the medium of communication and the vehicle of thought to these giant minds . It is not surprising that CATO S should have been converted from his hostility to every thing 18.
... intimate knowledge of that refined language , which was the medium of communication and the vehicle of thought to these giant minds . It is not surprising that CATO S should have been converted from his hostility to every thing 18.
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ANACREON ancient languages Architecture-the stately Doric authority of Heaven's boy—in every motion child classical College confessed the model Corinthian orders criticise a foot crowded with philosophers DIODORUS SICULUS DION CASSIUS DIONYSIUS Of Halicarnassus dissatisfied spectator doubtless ever stand early embody ideal perfection enquiry EURIPIDES fame is engraven forty books genius Georgia Historical Society Grecian Greece Greek and Latin HERODOTUS historians human humble cobbler ventured institutions instruction intoxicated to madness invited general criticism Italy knowledge learning letters of adamant LIVY maidens from Crotona mental modern artists moral motion hideously nature nearest to PHIDIAS painter was mortified pass by HOMER Philological Science PINDAR PLUTARCH POLYBIUS poor youth powers profound refined language register of immortality Roman Rome SAMUEL K SOPHOCLES spirit stranger revisits Athens style surprising that CATO sweetness of THEOCRITUS TALMAGE tenderness of MENANDER THEOCRITUS THUCYDIDES tion unwilling to unveil Whilst wonder world of wonders XENOPHON
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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.