A lecture on the influence and advantages of education1844 - Education |
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... labour and cost that may be required , but the means of adding to our moral and intellectual enjoyments , we seldom think worth securing . By education we learn their value , and the lessons conveyed to us by industrious observation are ...
... labour and cost that may be required , but the means of adding to our moral and intellectual enjoyments , we seldom think worth securing . By education we learn their value , and the lessons conveyed to us by industrious observation are ...
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... labour to ameliorate the general condition , by disseminating useful knowledge , are perversely resisted and retarded in their operation . The bounds of irrationality and intolerance are made wider by selfish bigotry , and the envious ...
... labour to ameliorate the general condition , by disseminating useful knowledge , are perversely resisted and retarded in their operation . The bounds of irrationality and intolerance are made wider by selfish bigotry , and the envious ...
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... labours . The formation of opinion , as it most concerns us , should be the first object of education . Facts alone should be our anchorage . Hitherto circumstances or persons we have come in contact with have had most influence , the ...
... labours . The formation of opinion , as it most concerns us , should be the first object of education . Facts alone should be our anchorage . Hitherto circumstances or persons we have come in contact with have had most influence , the ...
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... labours but to induce you to pursue the pleasures of inquiry still further . The alphabet of science once learnt , must conduct you , if possessed of any activity or energy in inquiry , to seek to know more . However , it is not by ...
... labours but to induce you to pursue the pleasures of inquiry still further . The alphabet of science once learnt , must conduct you , if possessed of any activity or energy in inquiry , to seek to know more . However , it is not by ...
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... labour . It seems hard to be compelled to go through toilsome processes before we can gain enough information to live discreetly , or attain distinction ; but unless we submit the rude mate- rial to the crucible of the mind , and there ...
... labour . It seems hard to be compelled to go through toilsome processes before we can gain enough information to live discreetly , or attain distinction ; but unless we submit the rude mate- rial to the crucible of the mind , and there ...
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acquirements acts advance advantages Aston Bottrel attainments attention beautiful become belong Bewdley blessings brain Bridgnorth bright Burwarton character circumstances civilized claims conduct contemplation conveyed Davis delight desires develope dignity discipline diseased ditto Mr G ditto Mr W duties enjoyment error esteem evil exalted exercise exhibit experience faculties felicity furnishes the means gives gratification habits happiness Haymoor higher highest human ignorance important impulses influence intel intellectual intelligence judgment knowledge labour learning living Ludlow mankind matter mental ments Meredith mind Minton Mongolian moral and social Mytton ditto Miss nature necessity Neenton nobler numerous objects observation obtain Oldswinford opinion organs ourselves Owens passions perfect permanent philosophy and science pleasures Popular Science possess precepts principles progress purity purposes pursuit reflection regulate reward rience rude rule secure shewing society Stanton Long Stourbridge Mr E superior talent tion truth uneducated utility virtues whilst wisdom Wolverhampton Wordsley yield
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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.