Occasional AddressesTufts college Press, 1902 - 242 páginas |
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... living multitudes to whom they were addressed . But above all we think of her great philosophers , to whom even kings came for instruction , and who were surrounded by a crowd of youths out of every nation under heaven . We seem to see ...
... living multitudes to whom they were addressed . But above all we think of her great philosophers , to whom even kings came for instruction , and who were surrounded by a crowd of youths out of every nation under heaven . We seem to see ...
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... living teachers in a university . The ques- tion might arise in some minds , what is the use of such an array of professors in one school ? Why not place the young gentle- men in an intellectual city , like Boston , with its museums and ...
... living teachers in a university . The ques- tion might arise in some minds , what is the use of such an array of professors in one school ? Why not place the young gentle- men in an intellectual city , like Boston , with its museums and ...
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... living men , which institutions alone , though they be the best ap- pointed that a beneficent public has ever de- vised , cannot supply . It is a blessed thing that a man fresh from his home , with all the impulsiveness and enthusiasm ...
... living men , which institutions alone , though they be the best ap- pointed that a beneficent public has ever de- vised , cannot supply . It is a blessed thing that a man fresh from his home , with all the impulsiveness and enthusiasm ...
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... living or the dead to promote , whose intellectual aims he has so completely represented and embodied , and whose chief administrative responsibilities he has dis- charged with rare ability and success . We are proud of the noble band ...
... living or the dead to promote , whose intellectual aims he has so completely represented and embodied , and whose chief administrative responsibilities he has dis- charged with rare ability and success . We are proud of the noble band ...
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... suspected that there was a living soul from end to end of this broad land who would take cognizance of his coming . Yet his ad- vent was heralded and waited for . The story of his escape had been told in Ireland and ORATION 53.
... suspected that there was a living soul from end to end of this broad land who would take cognizance of his coming . Yet his ad- vent was heralded and waited for . The story of his escape had been told in Ireland and ORATION 53.
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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.