Five Years in an English University, Τόμος 2G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... Society 59 69 62 Inferiority of our Colleges and Universities in Scholarships . 79 Supposed counterbalancing Advantages of American Col- leges 93 33 The Advantages of Classical Studies , particularly in refer- ence to the Youth of our ...
... Society 59 69 62 Inferiority of our Colleges and Universities in Scholarships . 79 Supposed counterbalancing Advantages of American Col- leges 93 33 The Advantages of Classical Studies , particularly in refer- ence to the Youth of our ...
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... society will the knowledge of raising potatoes be of more pecuniary advantage to its possessor and more value to the community generally than the knowledge of Greek and Hebrew ? And the answer is most obvious : in the very first and ...
... society will the knowledge of raising potatoes be of more pecuniary advantage to its possessor and more value to the community generally than the knowledge of Greek and Hebrew ? And the answer is most obvious : in the very first and ...
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... societies ? All that you will hear in the way or precept is a tradition or two , such as that eight hours a - day , " coach " and all , is a proper amount of work for a reading man , or that it is not safe to read after Hall ( i . e ...
... societies ? All that you will hear in the way or precept is a tradition or two , such as that eight hours a - day , " coach " and all , is a proper amount of work for a reading man , or that it is not safe to read after Hall ( i . e ...
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... society and public meeting habits , regarding every one addressed as a president or chairman to be made a speech at . It certainly has a very stiff effect at all times , and sometimes a very ludicrous one . I have known southern and ...
... society and public meeting habits , regarding every one addressed as a president or chairman to be made a speech at . It certainly has a very stiff effect at all times , and sometimes a very ludicrous one . I have known southern and ...
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... society . It is the low estimate which men in the upper ranks of life form of women in the lower . The remark has often been made , and with perfect truth , that that spirit of chivalry which makes every man the protector of every woman ...
... society . It is the low estimate which men in the upper ranks of life form of women in the lower . The remark has often been made , and with perfect truth , that that spirit of chivalry which makes every man the protector of every woman ...
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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...