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... habits of life peculiar to a free people . Accustomed to be restrained by the strong arm of power , and to look upon themselves as belonging to an inferior class of the human race , they suddenly emerge from the darkness of oppression ...
... habits of life peculiar to a free people . Accustomed to be restrained by the strong arm of power , and to look upon themselves as belonging to an inferior class of the human race , they suddenly emerge from the darkness of oppression ...
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... habit and the power he had acquired of holding his mind down steadily and for a long time to the study of an involved and difficult subject . " The discovery of gravitation , the grand secret of the universe , " says Hamilton , " was ...
... habit and the power he had acquired of holding his mind down steadily and for a long time to the study of an involved and difficult subject . " The discovery of gravitation , the grand secret of the universe , " says Hamilton , " was ...
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... habits of laziness , which will cling to them like the poisoned garment of Nessus , spoken of in ancient fable , and will prove their ruin . So also the noisy teacher will make a noisy school . On the other hand , if the teacher is a ...
... habits of laziness , which will cling to them like the poisoned garment of Nessus , spoken of in ancient fable , and will prove their ruin . So also the noisy teacher will make a noisy school . On the other hand , if the teacher is a ...
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... habits of thought and action . He must encourage the timid , incite the sluggish , detect the cunning , and reprove the froward . He must bear patiently with the ignorant - sometimes with the impertinent - perhaps the impudent ; -- and ...
... habits of thought and action . He must encourage the timid , incite the sluggish , detect the cunning , and reprove the froward . He must bear patiently with the ignorant - sometimes with the impertinent - perhaps the impudent ; -- and ...
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... habit of constant attention to the sense of what he reads ; the power of fixing his mind where he pleases ; of retaining it there as long as he pleases ; the art of reading is to him a complete nullity : if the acquisition of knowledge ...
... habit of constant attention to the sense of what he reads ; the power of fixing his mind where he pleases ; of retaining it there as long as he pleases ; the art of reading is to him a complete nullity : if the acquisition of knowledge ...
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Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute ..., Volym 53 American Institute of Instruction Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1882 |
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Sida 172 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Sida 64 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Sida 63 - The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder what must have been the amount of that bribe, in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment.
Sida 63 - It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less.
Sida 10 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Sida 5 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Sida 85 - And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise ; he calleth thee.
Sida 152 - When winds are blowing strong. The traveller slaked His thirst from rill or gushing fount, and thanked The Naiad. Sunbeams, upon distant hills • Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly.
Sida 84 - And when he heard that it •> was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
Sida 49 - Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors, than in the monarchy which they attack; it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? and what can be done with a people who are their own masters, if they be not submissive to the Deity?