A Book of Earnest LivesSwan, Sonnenschein, 1894 - 403 pages |
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Page 11
... teach the young " their duty towards God , and their duty towards their neighbour . " The Church bids us learn " to hurt nobody by word or deed , to be true and just in all our dealings , to have neither malice nor hatred in our hearts ...
... teach the young " their duty towards God , and their duty towards their neighbour . " The Church bids us learn " to hurt nobody by word or deed , to be true and just in all our dealings , to have neither malice nor hatred in our hearts ...
Page 13
... teaching languages , he would have the teacher go at once to the best books in those languages , and use them as his manuals , instead of wasting years upon Delectuses and Graduses.
... teaching languages , he would have the teacher go at once to the best books in those languages , and use them as his manuals , instead of wasting years upon Delectuses and Graduses.
Page 14
... themselves to " the enjoyments of ease and luxury , living out their days in inglorious idleness . " What Milton insists upon is , that things should be taught , EVILS OF CLASS TEACHING . 15 rather than words ; 14 GOOD SAMARITANS .
... themselves to " the enjoyments of ease and luxury , living out their days in inglorious idleness . " What Milton insists upon is , that things should be taught , EVILS OF CLASS TEACHING . 15 rather than words ; 14 GOOD SAMARITANS .
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... teacher and taught should address themselves to their task in a spirit of conscientious earnestness . He aims at ... teacher is to ensure the application to all of a method of teaching which will be adapted only to two or three . Hence ...
... teacher and taught should address themselves to their task in a spirit of conscientious earnestness . He aims at ... teacher is to ensure the application to all of a method of teaching which will be adapted only to two or three . Hence ...
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... teaching must be religious ; their duty towards God and towards their neighbour must be kept always before their eyes ; their teacher must make a constant effort to fill their minds with high and holy thoughts , and to put before them ...
... teaching must be religious ; their duty towards God and towards their neighbour must be kept always before their eyes ; their teacher must make a constant effort to fill their minds with high and holy thoughts , and to put before them ...
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Popular passages
Page 156 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 66 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 92 - Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 391 - I must hence to work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work.
Page 395 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Page 291 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 164 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 106 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 22 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 291 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient...