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... practice and critical observation in reading , writing , and speaking them , and by these alone . We incline to the opinion , indeed , that a self - taught student would , in these days , be more sure of acquiring a profound and exact ...
... practice and critical observation in reading , writing , and speaking them , and by these alone . We incline to the opinion , indeed , that a self - taught student would , in these days , be more sure of acquiring a profound and exact ...
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... practice ; that it lived and moved , and had its being , almost independently of the very society which it adorned ; and left behind no monument , save the writings of its devotees . ” p . 20 . " It is a melancholy and humiliating ...
... practice ; that it lived and moved , and had its being , almost independently of the very society which it adorned ; and left behind no monument , save the writings of its devotees . ” p . 20 . " It is a melancholy and humiliating ...
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... practices into which they occasionally fell in their conduct and way of liv- ing . We must repeat , once more , that the question here , is not what the mass of mankind in those ages were or did , but what the élite wrote and spoke ...
... practices into which they occasionally fell in their conduct and way of liv- ing . We must repeat , once more , that the question here , is not what the mass of mankind in those ages were or did , but what the élite wrote and spoke ...
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... practice of government ; the division and subordination of power ; the principles of evidence and trial ; diplomacy , the balance of power and the law of nations ; the history of man , of arts and sciences , and of literature ...
... practice of government ; the division and subordination of power ; the principles of evidence and trial ; diplomacy , the balance of power and the law of nations ; the history of man , of arts and sciences , and of literature ...
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... practice - that those who refuse to study a branch of learning so fundamental and so universally held in veneration as the classics , have forgotten " the know thy- self , " when they prattle about profound erudition . In addition to ...
... practice - that those who refuse to study a branch of learning so fundamental and so universally held in veneration as the classics , have forgotten " the know thy- self , " when they prattle about profound erudition . In addition to ...
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Seite 273 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Seite 34 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride...
Seite 284 - To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy...
Seite 22 - I mean not here the prosody of a verse, which they could not but have hit on before among the rudiments of grammar...
Seite 310 - Under the Articles of Confederation each State retained its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right not expressly delegated to the United States.
Seite 282 - In the first place it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws : its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.
Seite 496 - ... true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth : and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...
Seite 268 - Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
Seite 280 - The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce ; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to...
Seite 301 - But the idea of an enumeration of particulars which neither explain nor qualify the general meaning, and can have no other effect than to confound and mislead, is an absurdity, which, as we are reduced to the dilemma of charging either on the authors of the objection or on the authors of the Constitution, we must take the liberty of supposing, had not its origin with the latter.