Occasional AddressesTufts college Press, 1902 - 242 páginas |
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... young men with , who , after all must make a liveli- hood and get on in life ; and I reply , that on actual trial it will be found that men thus furnished are the most practical of all . For in the highest and best sense , the ideal and ...
... young men with , who , after all must make a liveli- hood and get on in life ; and I reply , that on actual trial it will be found that men thus furnished are the most practical of all . For in the highest and best sense , the ideal and ...
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... young gentle- men in an intellectual city , like Boston , with its museums and lectureships and libraries , and let them choose their own instruments of instruction ? Because there is something in the personal INAUGURAL ADDRESS 29.
... young gentle- men in an intellectual city , like Boston , with its museums and lectureships and libraries , and let them choose their own instruments of instruction ? Because there is something in the personal INAUGURAL ADDRESS 29.
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... young men . I have , as you have seen , a high regard for the value of edu- cation ; and I believe I appreciate , in some faint degree , the solemn relation which cul- ture sustains to religion . You may , there- fore , I think , safely ...
... young men . I have , as you have seen , a high regard for the value of edu- cation ; and I believe I appreciate , in some faint degree , the solemn relation which cul- ture sustains to religion . You may , there- fore , I think , safely ...
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... privileges . It is entirely safe to assert , that the time can never come when valuable gifts may not be applied to useful ends . Then , too , we need students , in every department , -young men fired by a devout INAUGURAL ADDRESS 37.
... privileges . It is entirely safe to assert , that the time can never come when valuable gifts may not be applied to useful ends . Then , too , we need students , in every department , -young men fired by a devout INAUGURAL ADDRESS 37.
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... young men ! How gladly would I rouse the hearts of young men themselves , until they should come , in overwhelming numbers , as they went after Abelard at Paris in the twelfth century , content to live in booths of their own ...
... young men ! How gladly would I rouse the hearts of young men themselves , until they should come , in overwhelming numbers , as they went after Abelard at Paris in the twelfth century , content to live in booths of their own ...
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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.