English and EngineeringFrank Aydelotte McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, 1917 - 390 páginas |
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Página v
... idea and plan of this collection , my obligations to different men for help and suggestions are numerous . Among ... ideas wherever I could find them and it is impossible for me in many cases to give credit where it is due . I must ...
... idea and plan of this collection , my obligations to different men for help and suggestions are numerous . Among ... ideas wherever I could find them and it is impossible for me in many cases to give credit where it is due . I must ...
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... ideas . Training in expression must be also training in thought or the re- sult will be insincere , wordy , artificial , self - conscious in a word bad expression . It is impossible to give a student any real power over language until ...
... ideas . Training in expression must be also training in thought or the re- sult will be insincere , wordy , artificial , self - conscious in a word bad expression . It is impossible to give a student any real power over language until ...
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... idea lies the unity of the two aims of English work . To train the student to write by first training him to think : to stimulate his thought by directing his attenion to prob- lems of his own profession and of his own education and to ...
... idea lies the unity of the two aims of English work . To train the student to write by first training him to think : to stimulate his thought by directing his attenion to prob- lems of his own profession and of his own education and to ...
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... idea of what he means by engineering , until he makes up his mind for himself whether he is learning a trade or a profession , and until he forms for himself some con- ception of the opportunity of the engineer for human leadership in ...
... idea of what he means by engineering , until he makes up his mind for himself whether he is learning a trade or a profession , and until he forms for himself some con- ception of the opportunity of the engineer for human leadership in ...
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... ideas . But the skillful teacher will find that if he follows ques- tion with question , on this side and that , points of view will soon begin to develop in the class - room . If he pre- serves an atmosphere in which thought is free ...
... ideas . But the skillful teacher will find that if he follows ques- tion with question , on this side and that , points of view will soon begin to develop in the class - room . If he pre- serves an atmosphere in which thought is free ...
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Página 19 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you...
Página 186 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 259 - O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Página 244 - ... impelled to create them where he does not find them. To these qualities he has added a disposition to be affected more than other men by absent things as if they were present...
Página 185 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 152 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Página 349 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Página 228 - The first is, that neither the discipline nor the subject-matter of classical education is of such direct value to the student of physical science as to justify the expenditure of valuable time upon either; and the second is, that for the purpose of attaining real culture, an exclusively scientific education is at least as effectual as an exclusively literary education.
Página 371 - ... and of the resolved arbitration of the destinies, that conclude into precision of doom what we feebly and blindly began; and force us, when our indiscretion serves us, and our deepest plots do pall, to the confession, that "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Página 239 - Why should it be one thing, in its effect upon the emotions, to say, 'Patience is a virtue,' and quite another thing, in its effect upon the emotions, to say with Homer, 'for an enduring heart have the destinies appointed to the children of men'?