Occasional AddressesTufts college Press, 1902 - 242 páginas |
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... cause of learning , in the midst of a com- munity the most refined and cultivated of any in this land , a community whose efforts in behalf of intellectual improvement form a leading feature of its history , —it is impossible to ...
... cause of learning , in the midst of a com- munity the most refined and cultivated of any in this land , a community whose efforts in behalf of intellectual improvement form a leading feature of its history , —it is impossible to ...
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... cause that hath hindered the progression of learning , be- cause these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage . " So far from exerting a secularizing influence even upon students of divinity , as some have feared , the ...
... cause that hath hindered the progression of learning , be- cause these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage . " So far from exerting a secularizing influence even upon students of divinity , as some have feared , the ...
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... cause to blush for their folly , or mourn over their treachery and desertion . Thus I have tried to sketch the university which will meet the wants of the country in present and future times . If the picture seems extravagant , you will ...
... cause to blush for their folly , or mourn over their treachery and desertion . Thus I have tried to sketch the university which will meet the wants of the country in present and future times . If the picture seems extravagant , you will ...
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... cause of Ireland their own . So that when he was summoned by his father to his native land , he was not only a man grown , robust and healthy , fit for any kind of manly service , but he had a full intellectual equipment , as we are ...
... cause of Ireland their own . So that when he was summoned by his father to his native land , he was not only a man grown , robust and healthy , fit for any kind of manly service , but he had a full intellectual equipment , as we are ...
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... caused him to be desig- nated as " the poet . " Moreover , he had held a conspicuous place in the Fenian struggle , and ... cause . They received him with cordiality and extended to him such poor hospitality as they could command . In ...
... caused him to be desig- nated as " the poet . " Moreover , he had held a conspicuous place in the Fenian struggle , and ... cause . They received him with cordiality and extended to him such poor hospitality as they could command . In ...
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Página 12 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 171 - In all its history it has been beneficent; it has trodden down no man's liberty ; it has crushed no State. Its daily respiration is liberty and patriotism ; its yet youthful veins are full of enterprise, courage, and honorable love of glory and renown. 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...
Página 167 - The American struggles against the obstacles that Nature opposes to him; the adversaries of the Russian are men. The former combats the wilderness and savage life; the latter, civilization with all its arms.
Página 128 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; * See Note 18.
Página 8 - 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 167 - There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans.
Página 205 - As necessity was a taskmaster over them, so they were forced to be such, not only to their servants but in a...
Página 167 - ... their existence and their greatness at almost the same time. All other nations seem to have nearly reached their natural limits, and only to be charged with the maintenance of their power; but these are still in the act of growth...
Página 207 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them...
Página 233 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.