Precept and example, in the instructive letters of eminent men to their younger friends: with short biographs of the writersTaylor and Hessey, 1825 - 272 Seiten |
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... an illustrious proof , that piety and religion are by no means inconsistent with wit , high - breed- ing , elegant taste , and knightly accomplish- ments . MILTON . MILTON . IN one of his polemical treatises SIR HENRY SIDNEY . 23.
... an illustrious proof , that piety and religion are by no means inconsistent with wit , high - breed- ing , elegant taste , and knightly accomplish- ments . MILTON . MILTON . IN one of his polemical treatises SIR HENRY SIDNEY . 23.
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... of literature . The Paradise Lost is also deeply imbued with an enthusiastic spirit of religion , that lends a fervour and a glow to its imagery and language , of the highest kind : the author seems to have prayed , 28 MILTON .
... of literature . The Paradise Lost is also deeply imbued with an enthusiastic spirit of religion , that lends a fervour and a glow to its imagery and language , of the highest kind : the author seems to have prayed , 28 MILTON .
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... evening repast , till bed - time , their thoughts will be best taken up in the easy grounds of Religion and the story of Scripture . The next step would be to the au- for thors of Agriculture - Cato , Varro , and 38 MILTON .
... evening repast , till bed - time , their thoughts will be best taken up in the easy grounds of Religion and the story of Scripture . The next step would be to the au- for thors of Agriculture - Cato , Varro , and 38 MILTON .
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... religious , what glorious and mag- nificent use , might be made of poetry , both in di- vine and human things . From hence , and not till now , will be the right season of forming to be able writers and composers in every excellent ...
... religious , what glorious and mag- nificent use , might be made of poetry , both in di- vine and human things . From hence , and not till now , will be the right season of forming to be able writers and composers in every excellent ...
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... religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong , the next an acquaintance with the history of mankind ; " and that " those authors therefore are to be read at schools , that supply most axioms of prudence , most principles of moral ...
... religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong , the next an acquaintance with the history of mankind ; " and that " those authors therefore are to be read at schools , that supply most axioms of prudence , most principles of moral ...
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Seite 106 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Seite 39 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
Seite 36 - 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.
Seite 32 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.
Seite 45 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Seite 28 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar...
Seite 34 - And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of universities not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages that instead of beginning with arts most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics...
Seite 36 - 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.
Seite 33 - ... forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention.
Seite 46 - These are the studies wherein our noble and our gentle youth ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way from twelve to one-and-twenty ; unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead than upon themselves living. In which methodical course it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward, as at convenient times, for memory's sake, to retire back into the middle ward, and sometimes into the rear of what they have been taught, until they have confirmed and solidly united...