Occasional AddressesTufts college Press, 1902 - 242 páginas |
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... principles , but she deals with the very substance of being . She takes the callow youth and makes of him a stalwart man . She receives the rough boor and returns him to the world an accomplished gentleman . Her work is to bring out in ...
... principles , but she deals with the very substance of being . She takes the callow youth and makes of him a stalwart man . She receives the rough boor and returns him to the world an accomplished gentleman . Her work is to bring out in ...
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... principles of being . He only is thoroughly furnished for the stern necessities of life who has tenacity of will , sensitiveness of conscience and high moral purpose . The university rightly administered will not fail to develop these ...
... principles of being . He only is thoroughly furnished for the stern necessities of life who has tenacity of will , sensitiveness of conscience and high moral purpose . The university rightly administered will not fail to develop these ...
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... principle can be true in physics which is not equally true , or which , at least , is proved to be false , in metaphysics ; that no maxim of political economy can be sound or just which is subversive of a clear rule of ethics ; that ...
... principle can be true in physics which is not equally true , or which , at least , is proved to be false , in metaphysics ; that no maxim of political economy can be sound or just which is subversive of a clear rule of ethics ; that ...
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... principle could have had a distinct and conscious oper- ation in all the teachings of Christendom how much misery might have been averted ! The doctrine of Rousseau and his followers -that men have rights which transcend , and are not ...
... principle could have had a distinct and conscious oper- ation in all the teachings of Christendom how much misery might have been averted ! The doctrine of Rousseau and his followers -that men have rights which transcend , and are not ...
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... principles of his own , but of all Aryan tongues . In Germany a boy is put into Latin as soon as he has mastered reading and writing , and the study of Greek follows in a year or two . When he comes to the university he passes out from ...
... principles of his own , but of all Aryan tongues . In Germany a boy is put into Latin as soon as he has mastered reading and writing , and the study of Greek follows in a year or two . When he comes to the university he passes out from ...
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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.