Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Band 39American Institute of Instruction, 1869 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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Seite 185 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Seite 183 - Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair...
Seite 104 - Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers ; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
Seite 141 - When any scholar is able to read Tully, or such like classical Latin author, extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, then may he be admitted into the college, nor shall any claim admission before such qualifications.
Seite 181 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Seite 196 - Thy wondrous gift of an eternal mind ? Shall I, who, some few years ago, was less Than worm, or mite, or shadow can express, Was nothing ; shall I live, when every fire And every star shall languish and expire ? When earth ?s no more, shall I survive above,. And , thro...
Seite 132 - ... dead,' and have been handed down to us directly from the periods of their highest perfection, comparatively untouched by the inevitable process of degeneration and decay, they are, beyond all doubt, the finest and most serviceable models we have for the study of language. As literature, they supply the most graceful and some of the noblest poetry, the finest eloquence, the deepest philosophy, the wisest historical writing...
Seite 133 - ... method of cultivation. Is a young man able to spare the time necessary for passing through the University ? Make him a good classical scholar ! But a second, instead of residing at the University, must go into business when he leaves school. Make him then a tolerable classical scholar ! A third has still less time for snatching up knowledge, and is destined for active employment while still a boy. Make him a bad classical scholar ! If he does not become a Flaminius, or a Buchanan, he may learn...
Seite 152 - But yet, I guess, this is not to be done to children, whilst very young, nor at their entrance upon any sort of knowledge: then every thing of itself is difficult, and the great use and skill of a teacher is to make all as easy as he can: but particularly in learning of languages there is least occasion for posing of children.
Seite 207 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. • • • • • Let no such man be trusted...