The Method Off Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physics, &c. ...W.J. and J. Richardson, J. Walker, 1804 |
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... Whilst they were at table , the master proposed questions to the boys . As for instance , Who is the best man in the city ? What say you to such an action ? Their answer was expected to be ready , and attended with a reason and proof ...
... Whilst they were at table , the master proposed questions to the boys . As for instance , Who is the best man in the city ? What say you to such an action ? Their answer was expected to be ready , and attended with a reason and proof ...
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... whilst it diverted them . They were seldom alone ; but were accustomed to live like bees , in swarms , and always around their chiefs . [ m ] The love of their country and the common good was their prevailing passion . They thought they ...
... whilst it diverted them . They were seldom alone ; but were accustomed to live like bees , in swarms , and always around their chiefs . [ m ] The love of their country and the common good was their prevailing passion . They thought they ...
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... whilst they left the hearts of their citizens open to the admiration and desire of riches , and introduced a strong passion for accumu- [ x ] Plut . in Lysand . [ 1 ] Αποδιοπομεῖσθαι πᾶν τὸ ἀρὰ λύριον καὶ τὸ χρύσιον , ὥσπερ κῆρας ...
... whilst they left the hearts of their citizens open to the admiration and desire of riches , and introduced a strong passion for accumu- [ x ] Plut . in Lysand . [ 1 ] Αποδιοπομεῖσθαι πᾶν τὸ ἀρὰ λύριον καὶ τὸ χρύσιον , ὥσπερ κῆρας ...
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... whilst they are very young . For this reason Age- silaus advised Xenophon to send his sons to Sparta , [ 7 ] that they might learn there the greatest and best of sciences , how to govern , and be governed . He had been well instructed ...
... whilst they are very young . For this reason Age- silaus advised Xenophon to send his sons to Sparta , [ 7 ] that they might learn there the greatest and best of sciences , how to govern , and be governed . He had been well instructed ...
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... whilst every little law- giver , in all ages and countries , has been careful to punish it severely , even with death . Plutarch , who mentions this custom in the life of Lycurgus , in the manners of the Lacedæmonians , and in several ...
... whilst every little law- giver , in all ages and countries , has been careful to punish it severely , even with death . Plutarch , who mentions this custom in the life of Lycurgus , in the manners of the Lacedæmonians , and in several ...
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Էջ 402 - And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented...
Էջ 334 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Էջ 445 - QUINCTILIAN says, that he has included almost all the duty of scholars in this one piece of advice which he gives them, to love those who teach them, as they love the sciences which they...
Էջ 334 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son : but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Էջ 291 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Էջ 322 - Things, and not when we stop at them; when they serve us as Preparatives and Instruments for better Knowledge, without which the rest would be useless. Youth would have Cause to complain, if they were condemned to spend eight or ten of the best Years of their Life in learning, at a great Expence, and with incredible Pains, one or two Languages, and some other Matters of a like Nature, which perhaps they would seldom have Occasion to use. The end of Masters, in the long Course of their Studies, is...
Էջ 307 - Now what is it but good education which enables all the citizens and great men, and princes above the rest, to perform their different functions in a deserving manner? Is it not evident that youth are as the nursery of the state? That it is renewed and perpetuated by them? That from among them all the fathers of families, all magistrates and ministers, in a word, all persons placed in authority and power are taken?
Էջ 322 - The end of Masters, in the long Course of their Studies, is to habituate their Scholars to serious Application of Mind, to make them love and value the Sciences, and to cultivate in them such a Taste, as shall make them thirst after them when they are gone from School...
Էջ 447 - Quintillian sets upon the talents of the mind, he esteems those of the heart far beyond them, and looks upon the others as of no value without them. In the same chapter...
Էջ 445 - The one can do nothing without the other; and as it is not sufficient for a labourer to sow the seed, unless the earth, after having opened its bosom to receive it...