A lecture on the influence and advantages of education1844 - Education |
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... PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE . " " Wise men lay up knowledge ; but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction . " PROVERBS . London : SIMPKIN , MARSHALL , AND CO . STOURBRIDGE : PRINTED BY T. MELLARD , HIGH STREET . M DCCCXLIV . TO THE READER ...
... PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE . " " Wise men lay up knowledge ; but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction . " PROVERBS . London : SIMPKIN , MARSHALL , AND CO . STOURBRIDGE : PRINTED BY T. MELLARD , HIGH STREET . M DCCCXLIV . TO THE READER ...
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... pursuits should be directed to these objects , and to fulfil these important ends . Whatever conduces to enlarge our capacity for pure and virtuous enjoyment should claim our attention and regard , -those pleasures and pastimes that ...
... pursuits should be directed to these objects , and to fulfil these important ends . Whatever conduces to enlarge our capacity for pure and virtuous enjoyment should claim our attention and regard , -those pleasures and pastimes that ...
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... pursuits essential to their situation . Man is naturally a social being , he dwells nowhere alone , and to discharge the duties of the confede- racy to which he belongs , he must acquire knowledge . To defend himself from aggression ...
... pursuits essential to their situation . Man is naturally a social being , he dwells nowhere alone , and to discharge the duties of the confede- racy to which he belongs , he must acquire knowledge . To defend himself from aggression ...
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... occupations should be followed with care and observation , and that the pursuit of good , as the practice of evil , may alike enslave the under- standing , and produce mental blindness . How frail a thing , at best , is the 6.
... occupations should be followed with care and observation , and that the pursuit of good , as the practice of evil , may alike enslave the under- standing , and produce mental blindness . How frail a thing , at best , is the 6.
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... pursuits of a people proclaim the nature of their educational attainments . Vice and coarse gratifications belong to ignorance as surely as moral and refined desires result from useful learning . Primeval society , rude as it is ...
... pursuits of a people proclaim the nature of their educational attainments . Vice and coarse gratifications belong to ignorance as surely as moral and refined desires result from useful learning . Primeval society , rude as it is ...
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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.