Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volume 8American Institute of Instruction, 1838 - Education List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... beauty and spirit of the originals , considered as works of literary excellence , is lost , even in the best translations ; and to him , who has any ambition to consult the primitive , and perhaps to this day , the purest models ...
... beauty and spirit of the originals , considered as works of literary excellence , is lost , even in the best translations ; and to him , who has any ambition to consult the primitive , and perhaps to this day , the purest models ...
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... beauty . It is to be presumed then , that on a subject of such importance and thrilling interest there should exist as many modes of op- eration as there are operators . The sagacity and combined efforts of the philanthropic and of the ...
... beauty . It is to be presumed then , that on a subject of such importance and thrilling interest there should exist as many modes of op- eration as there are operators . The sagacity and combined efforts of the philanthropic and of the ...
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... beauty , uninfluenced by habit or opinion . The wonderfully constructed ear would , delighted , catch the chorus of praise so constantly ascending to heaven ; and while beauty and harmony were combined to delight and instruct , the ...
... beauty , uninfluenced by habit or opinion . The wonderfully constructed ear would , delighted , catch the chorus of praise so constantly ascending to heaven ; and while beauty and harmony were combined to delight and instruct , the ...
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... beauty were undoubtedly conveyed to the mind through these . The mental faculties were in their infancy , and the instruction necessary to their state were such as were highly suitable and could not fail . Such an order still exists ...
... beauty were undoubtedly conveyed to the mind through these . The mental faculties were in their infancy , and the instruction necessary to their state were such as were highly suitable and could not fail . Such an order still exists ...
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... beauty of the natural world is more perceptible and appreciable to them than is ordinary if there are not moments in their experience which owe their entire pleasure and profit to such sources when these ever existing objects of beauty ...
... beauty of the natural world is more perceptible and appreciable to them than is ordinary if there are not moments in their experience which owe their entire pleasure and profit to such sources when these ever existing objects of beauty ...
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Page 116 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 222 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Page 137 - Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear...
Page 223 - The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines, that may draw nearer to another for all eternity, without a possibility of touching it : and can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to HIM, who Is the standard not only of perfection, but of happiness ! ADDISON.
Page 202 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 60 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Page 191 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 191 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been, In mockery of man's art...
Page 190 - Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue...
Page 122 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...