An Address, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, 28 August, 1834, on Classical Learning and EloquenceJ. Munroe, 1834 - 68 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 63 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Seite 10 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then bolh of them together for a time : in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
Seite 64 - ... and had laboured under the disadvantage of frequent ill health, the knowledge which he then possessed was very considerable ; and, in particular, his proficiency in the learned languages was probably greater than ever was acquired by any other person in such early youth. In Latin authors he seldom met with difficulty ; and it was no uncommon thing for him to read into English six or seven pages of Thucydides, which he had not previously seen, without more than two or three mistakes, and sometimes...
Seite 7 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Seite 11 - I shall form on this head, of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences, is. That, though the only proper nursery of these noble plants be a free state, yet may they be transplanted into any government; and that a republic is most favourable to the growth of the sciences, and a civilized monarchy to that of the polite arts.
Seite 28 - in the most solemn manner, that Mr. Otis's Oration against Writs of Assistance breathed into this nation the breath of life.
Seite 57 - I should lay it down as a rule, admitting of no exception, that a man will speak well in proportion as he has written much; and that with equal talents, he will be the finest extempore speaker, when no time for preparing is allowed, who has prepared himself the most sedulously when he had an opportunity of delivering a premeditated speech.
Seite 64 - ... master of all the ordinary rules of grammar, but taking great pleasure in the philological disquisitions of critics and commentators, he became deeply versed in the niceties of construction and peculiarities of idiom, both in the Latin and Greek languages.
Seite 66 - If there be any thing in the argument to which you have thus patiently listened ; — if it be true, that science and those departments of learning, the utility of which is most directly and superficially apparent, will be cultivated of course among us, falling in as they do with the immediate and pressing demand of the time, and of the people in all times ; — but that letters and the fine arts...
Seite 23 - PROBABLY it will be conceded on all hands, that the chief object of primary education is not knowledge, but discipline, and facilities for acquiring knowledge. The absolute knowledge of things which the boy learns out of his school books is next to nothing, — scarcely more in a course of years than the man of full-grown and well-trained faculties might acquire in as many months. The object, then, is rather to create habits of application ; to call into action that greatest principle of all human...