Self-education: Or, The Means and Art of Moral ProgressCarter and Hendee, 1830 - 456 σελίδες |
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Self-education: Or, The Means and Art of Moral Progress Joseph-Marie baron de Gérando Πλήρης προβολή - 1860 |
Self-education: Or, The Means and Art of Moral Progress Joseph-Marie baron de Gérando Πλήρης προβολή - 1830 |
Self-Education: Or, the Means and Art of Moral Progress Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,Joseph-Marie Gerando Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2018 |
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Σελίδα ii - An act, supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.
Σελίδα ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Σελίδα 5 - It dees not consist in producing extraordinary men. It may be found in the destiny and condition of every one, and may be adapted to the most ordinary occasions. It consists in a complete and harmonious combination of the intellectual and moral faculties ; and it is not striking or surprising to a spectator, precisely because everything is conformable to order and simplicity.
Σελίδα 257 - What a rriagnificent homage rendered to Christianity, that it has been able to cause desertion from the school of Plato ! * In the general system of beings, everything proceeds in a continued gradation, as everything tends to extreme simplicity, whatever may be the wonderful complication of means. It is an immense pyramid, the regularity of which we discover more clearly, the more minutely we examine the details. At the lowest degree lie inanimate and unorganized substances...
Σελίδα 258 - Alas ! it would have been better to have left it unfinished in inferior species. Nature could have dispensed with insects and reptiles ; but not with higher degrees of intellect and goodness. ' Yes, man is an intermedial link in the chain of beings. As he sees what is at his feet, so he has a presentiment of what is above him. All that is most elevated in humanity, moral and intellectual perfection, is exactly what approaches most nearly to a superior nature, and what receives from it the most direct...
Σελίδα 5 - We do not gain anything by going out of our station, but by conforming to it; and the less aid and the more obstacles we meet with, so much more merit we obtain. Let not the eminently excellent, therefore, walk before us in vain. Let not their lives merely charm _us in description, or affect us like a dramatic scene.
Σελίδα 3 - The life of man is in reality but one continued education, the end of which is, to make himself perfect. Man is always called, not only to govern himself, but to provide for the time to come. Every action exerts an inevitable influence over all that follow. Every step advances him a degree in his career. He must be enlightened by experience, and strengthened by exercise. Some men are not morally adult, until their maturity. Some in old age grow young for virtue. All can improve even at these periods...
Σελίδα 10 - These powers make up the" whole moral man : the first determining purity of motive, and resting upon disinterestedness as its essential condition ; the latter rendering us capable of acting from the best motives, and taking for granted that man not only has power but authority over himself: one directs to the end, the other furnishes the means. ' In the second book, we shall examine how, from the exercise of these two great powers, results all the good there is in us ; also, how the degree of their...
Σελίδα 1 - ... others are but collateral and secondary. It is by devoting herself to the careful study of this, that she is to gain an intelligent confidence in her labors, and faith in their results. " The education of man commences under the most sacred and 1833.] Maternal Influence. 19 benign auspices. In confiding it to the heart of a mother, Providence seems to have taken it upon itself.
Σελίδα 258 - What would be humanity, disinherited of immortal life ? O does not all morality invoke and proclaim with a unanimous voice this last relation of man with his Author, of the present with the future, which alone solves all the problems of existence ! Religion, doubtless, is a sigh of weakness ; but it is, above all, a wish and want of virtue, which alone nourishes those noble instincts which religion is to satisfy. Virtue thrills at the sight of religion, with the same joy a son feels when he flies...