Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volumen8American Institute of Instruction, 1838 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... progress to this only may we discover the advance of society , the stability of our institutions , and the hope of the world . It is this , and only this , to which we may look for safety on the heaving bosom of society amidst the ...
... progress to this only may we discover the advance of society , the stability of our institutions , and the hope of the world . It is this , and only this , to which we may look for safety on the heaving bosom of society amidst the ...
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... progress is gradual , and may be guided by education . And thus order partial is sustained amidst ruin else . Finally , education may restore order complete , by making men loyal and obedient to civil authority and bringing them under ...
... progress is gradual , and may be guided by education . And thus order partial is sustained amidst ruin else . Finally , education may restore order complete , by making men loyal and obedient to civil authority and bringing them under ...
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... progress towards the highest excellence has been accelerated , perhaps , by centuries . In accounting for the rapid progress which learning made immediately after the revival of letters , we think that due consideration has not been ...
... progress towards the highest excellence has been accelerated , perhaps , by centuries . In accounting for the rapid progress which learning made immediately after the revival of letters , we think that due consideration has not been ...
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... progress to reap this advantage from it . Their acquaintance with the ancients , in most cases , remains miserably limited , and the difficulties of the language have not been sufficiently over- come to enable them to peruse a Classic ...
... progress to reap this advantage from it . Their acquaintance with the ancients , in most cases , remains miserably limited , and the difficulties of the language have not been sufficiently over- come to enable them to peruse a Classic ...
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... progress of its infant institutions , so is it equally pleasing and advantageous to trace the progress of the literature of West- ern Europe from its cradle in early Greece . It may be alleged in regard of this , as well as of the advan ...
... progress of its infant institutions , so is it equally pleasing and advantageous to trace the progress of the literature of West- ern Europe from its cradle in early Greece . It may be alleged in regard of this , as well as of the advan ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 137 - Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 60 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...