 | 1921 - 524 sidor
...the function could be executed." at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...power, and refining the intercourse of private life." In the minds of the two Newmans, a University was or should be a " two-handed engine " for the realization... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 618 sidor
...purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...power, and refining the intercourse of private life.' Of the Royal University it might be said, as of Malvolio, ' an you had any eye behind you, you might... | |
 | Winifred Bryan Horner - 1983 - 190 sidor
...of scholars? In 1852 Cardinal Newman described the ideal education for a liberally educated citizen: It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious...eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. . . . He has a gift which services him in public, and supports him in retirement, without which good... | |
 | 1968 - 712 sidor
...leader of men is humanity, a quality exemplified, in John Henry Newman's words, by the man who has "a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments,...eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them." The military leader at his best must be a man of discipline, and discipline often involves maintaining... | |
 | Robert Pattison - 1991 - 246 sidor
...intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste . . . , at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of public life.'' The product of these sublime endeavors is that nineteenth-century marvel, the gentleman.... | |
 | Hedley Beare, William Lowe Boyd - 1993 - 264 sidor
...at purifying the public taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...and refining the intercourse of private life. It is education which gives man (sic) a clear conscious view of his opinions and judgements, a truth in developing... | |
 | George Brown, Joanna Bull, Malcolm Pendlebury - 1997 - 340 sidor
...education: that education which gives a man a cleat conscious view of his own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing...urging them. It teaches him to see things as they ate, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to derect what is sophistical, and... | |
 | George Brown, Joanna Bull, Malcolm Pendlebury - 1997 - 340 sidor
...tradition that places some if not all of these high-level skills at the heart of higher education: that education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.... | |
 | David Cecil Smith, Anne Karin Langslow - 1999 - 206 sidor
...indispensable, end of education, but it is not enough, as is indicated by his remark that it is a liberal education which 'gives a man a clear conscious view...eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them' (Kerl 976, pp. 134-135,145-146,154).Istress this point because it has often been supposed that in effect... | |
 | Clark Kerr - 2001 - 616 sidor
...purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...and refining the intercourse of private life." It prepares a person "to fill any post with credit, and to master any subject with facility."9 THE ORIGIN... | |
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But a university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end ; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm... 
