A lecture on the influence and advantages of education1844 - Education |
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... greatest vices , when they prevail unregu- lated by wisdom ; a normal society , without any other element of error or infelicity , if wholly influenced by them , may be carried to the most baneful excesses and infatuation . The moral ...
... greatest vices , when they prevail unregu- lated by wisdom ; a normal society , without any other element of error or infelicity , if wholly influenced by them , may be carried to the most baneful excesses and infatuation . The moral ...
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... greatest intricacy and difficulty , and possibly its nature may for ever remain obscured from our senses . But for my part , I cannot think that the brain is itself the mind , or , that joy , hope , fear , belief , doubt , can be acts ...
... greatest intricacy and difficulty , and possibly its nature may for ever remain obscured from our senses . But for my part , I cannot think that the brain is itself the mind , or , that joy , hope , fear , belief , doubt , can be acts ...
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... greatest attainments , seem unequal to the task of keeping the mind above prejudicial motives and passion . This evil is the bane of happiness , and robs our lives of the most delectable pleasures . The young presume , and therefore ...
... greatest attainments , seem unequal to the task of keeping the mind above prejudicial motives and passion . This evil is the bane of happiness , and robs our lives of the most delectable pleasures . The young presume , and therefore ...
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... greatest evil . Thus it is , that education has so important an influence , and that its advantages are so great . It benefits directly , by bringing before us the means of obtaining peace , prosperity and contentment , — come down from ...
... greatest evil . Thus it is , that education has so important an influence , and that its advantages are so great . It benefits directly , by bringing before us the means of obtaining peace , prosperity and contentment , — come down from ...
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... greatest and most benign achievements , and in cul- tivating our intellect we direct ourselves to the most desirable felicities permitted to our enjoyment , and to the knowledge of that wisdom which whilst it adorns our mental ...
... greatest and most benign achievements , and in cul- tivating our intellect we direct ourselves to the most desirable felicities permitted to our enjoyment , and to the knowledge of that wisdom which whilst it adorns our mental ...
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Page 45 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 12 - Wise men now agree, or ought to agree in this, that there is but one way to the knowledge of Nature's works ; the way of observation and experiment. By our constitution, we have a strong propensity to trace particular facts and observations to general rules, and to apply such general rules to account for other effects, or to direct us in the production of them.
Page 15 - ... divine nature, become creaturely existing, or breathed forth from God, to stand before Him in the form of a creature. When the animals of this world were to be created, it was only said, Let the earth, the air, the water, bring forth creatures after their kinds; but when man was to be brought forth, it was said, Let us make man in our own image and likeness.
Page 35 - ... wise man more than the fool?... There is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in wickedness.... One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.... The race is not to the swift, the battle to the strong; neither bread to the wise, nor riches to the man of understanding.... On all things is written vanity.