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... result , 21 . LECTURE I. ON THE STUDY OF THE CLASSICS . By JOHN MULLIGAN .. 23 Selection of a topic for discussion connected with the Study of the Clas- sics - importance of the inquiry , What are the advantages of Classical Learning ...
... result , 21 . LECTURE I. ON THE STUDY OF THE CLASSICS . By JOHN MULLIGAN .. 23 Selection of a topic for discussion connected with the Study of the Clas- sics - importance of the inquiry , What are the advantages of Classical Learning ...
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... results . Education generally , perhaps universally , has been shaped by circumstances . The historian informs us that the laws of Lycurgus and Solon , were only the public sentiment of the age in which they lived . And that their names ...
... results . Education generally , perhaps universally , has been shaped by circumstances . The historian informs us that the laws of Lycurgus and Solon , were only the public sentiment of the age in which they lived . And that their names ...
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... result from the cultivation of the moral susceptibilities and become insensible to the more delicate affections of the soul , and elevating hopes of the truly vir- tuous . They have nothing on which to rest for enjoyment , but ...
... result from the cultivation of the moral susceptibilities and become insensible to the more delicate affections of the soul , and elevating hopes of the truly vir- tuous . They have nothing on which to rest for enjoyment , but ...
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... result that might be anticipated from such an education ; and one that is often developed , in some of its milder features among the moral reformers of the day . Nor may you reason with them . Reckless of consequences , and regardless ...
... result that might be anticipated from such an education ; and one that is often developed , in some of its milder features among the moral reformers of the day . Nor may you reason with them . Reckless of consequences , and regardless ...
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... results abundantly testify . To this source may be traced nu- merous evils common to most . The sallow countenance , trembling nerve , and deformed body are among the number ; while bodily suffering , mental alienation and premature ...
... results abundantly testify . To this source may be traced nu- merous evils common to most . The sallow countenance , trembling nerve , and deformed body are among the number ; while bodily suffering , mental alienation and premature ...
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Page 210 - 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 131 - Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear...
Page 211 - 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 222 - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Page 56 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Page 181 - 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 181 - 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...
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Page 160 - 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 nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.