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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... title of The Counsels of Wisdom , has been delayed so long in consequence of the accidental appear- ance in the meantime of another work nearly similar in sub- ject and title . PREFACE . THE Instructive Letters , with which we here.
... title of The Counsels of Wisdom , has been delayed so long in consequence of the accidental appear- ance in the meantime of another work nearly similar in sub- ject and title . PREFACE . THE Instructive Letters , with which we here.
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... Wisdom , their claims upon our attention are obvious . In them will be found all that is necessary for guiding us with safety and honour through the tempests of Human Life , and much of what is conducive to our happiness hereafter ...
... Wisdom , their claims upon our attention are obvious . In them will be found all that is necessary for guiding us with safety and honour through the tempests of Human Life , and much of what is conducive to our happiness hereafter ...
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... into the youthful breast : perhaps , indeed , it is unjust to expect at that such a love of wisdom as would lead to age the contemplation of it with an interest only to be looked for in those who , by long vi . PREFACE T.
... into the youthful breast : perhaps , indeed , it is unjust to expect at that such a love of wisdom as would lead to age the contemplation of it with an interest only to be looked for in those who , by long vi . PREFACE T.
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... wisdom , or disgusts with the counsels of virtue . In the present volume we have attempted to combine the useful and the grateful , the entertaining and the in- structive . For this purpose we have sought the aid of history , of ...
... wisdom , or disgusts with the counsels of virtue . In the present volume we have attempted to combine the useful and the grateful , the entertaining and the in- structive . For this purpose we have sought the aid of history , of ...
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... wisdom , -for although these two qualities of mind are not incom- patible , the latter is frequently apt to silence and discourage the former . The epitome of his faculties and disposition , which Sir Fulke Greville , 6 SIR HENRY SIDNEY .
... wisdom , -for although these two qualities of mind are not incom- patible , the latter is frequently apt to silence and discourage the former . The epitome of his faculties and disposition , which Sir Fulke Greville , 6 SIR HENRY SIDNEY .
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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...