Five Years in an English University, Τόμος 2G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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Σελίδα 7
... pretends to do , the course of civilization , goes directly to pervert and retard it , and to throw the world back to the ages of barbarism . Returning from this partial digression and turning to a much ENGLISH UNIVERSITY . 7.
... pretends to do , the course of civilization , goes directly to pervert and retard it , and to throw the world back to the ages of barbarism . Returning from this partial digression and turning to a much ENGLISH UNIVERSITY . 7.
Σελίδα 9
... course ; but if they were not stronger or healthier , or more moral men than the rest of the commu- nity , I do not say that I should be perfectly satisfied , but I should be inclined to withhold my censure so long as they did VOL . II ...
... course ; but if they were not stronger or healthier , or more moral men than the rest of the commu- nity , I do not say that I should be perfectly satisfied , but I should be inclined to withhold my censure so long as they did VOL . II ...
Σελίδα 11
... course , at least during the most important years of their undergraduateship , and necessarily some go through it well and some ill ; it is too much for some , and not half enough for others . Now at Cambridge precisely the reverse of ...
... course , at least during the most important years of their undergraduateship , and necessarily some go through it well and some ill ; it is too much for some , and not half enough for others . Now at Cambridge precisely the reverse of ...
Σελίδα 18
... course . But besides its professional value it is an accomplishment which a highly educated man may be expected to possess , and should there- fore form a part of a liberal education . The second deficiency is one rather more ...
... course . But besides its professional value it is an accomplishment which a highly educated man may be expected to possess , and should there- fore form a part of a liberal education . The second deficiency is one rather more ...
Σελίδα 29
... a right to sacrifice many of them for the sake of getting the best possible men for its own wants ; but a system which sifts out , in a course of four years , more than two thirds of those subjected to ENGLISH UNIVERSITY . 29.
... a right to sacrifice many of them for the sake of getting the best possible men for its own wants ; but a system which sifts out , in a course of four years , more than two thirds of those subjected to ENGLISH UNIVERSITY . 29.
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Σελίδα 320 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Σελίδα 402 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Σελίδα 402 - Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Σελίδα 445 - Principles Of Human Knowledge 1. OBJECTS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.—It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either IDEAS actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination—either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Σελίδα 446 - And as several of these are observed to accompany each other, they come to be marked by one name, and so to be reputed as one thing. Thus, for example, a certain colour, taste, smell, figure and consistence having been observed to go together, are accounted one distinct thing, signified by the name apple.
Σελίδα 401 - So little to be loved, and thou so much, That I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbound spirit into bonds again. Thou, as a gallant bark from Albion's coast (The storms all weather'd and the ocean...
Σελίδα 376 - One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of the Creator is, the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with the generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments...
Σελίδα 446 - By sight I have the ideas of light and colours with their several degrees and variations. By touch I perceive, for example, hard and soft, heat and cold, motion and resistance, and of all these more and less either as to quantity or degree. Smelling furnishes me with odours, the palate with tastes, and hearing conveys sounds to the mind in all their variety of tone and composition.
Σελίδα 348 - Upon the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of the base equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity.
Σελίδα 402 - Yet, oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he, That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...