 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1870 - 426 pages
....tudies " should form trie basis of intellectual teaching." He once said, " The study of languages seems to me as if it was given for the very purpose...teach boys philology through the medium of their own language, seem the very instruments by which this is to be effected." He insisted strongly on original... | |
 | 1873 - 634 pages
...and obvious means of attaining the desired end. Says the lamented Dr. Arnold, " The study of language seems to me as if it was given for the very purpose...mind in youth ; and the Greek and Latin languages . . . seem the very instruments by which this is to be effected." And subsequently his biographer remarks... | |
 | Henry Allen Sawtelle - 1873 - 210 pages
...THE CHRISTIAN writer is generally the most comprehensive. THE STUDY of language seems to me as if_it was given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth, said Thomas Arnold. And this conviction strengthened with his age. IT is a great mistake, said Arnold,... | |
 | Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...he found in the classical studies. He affirmed that the study of language seemed to him to have been given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ; and he regarded the Greek and Latin languages as in themselves so perfect, and at the same time so free... | |
 | Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pages
...infant drop by drop, As brooklets gather. — Sigourney. LANGUAGE.— The Study of The study of language seems to me as if it was given for the very purpose...attend any attempt to teach boys philology through the medinm of their own spoken language, seem the very instruments by which this ia to be effected. —... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 410 pages
...foundation of his intellectual teaching. He affirmed that the study of language seemed to him to have been given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ; and he regarded the Greek and Latin tongues as in themselves so perfect, and at the same time so free from... | |
 | 1885 - 480 pages
...the classics .as the liest vehicle for the study of language — a study which seemed to him as if ' given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ' — he was the first to add mathematics, modern history, and modern languages to the ordinary school... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1894 - 442 pages
...foundation of his intellectual teaching. He affirmed that the study of language seemed to him to have been given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ; and he regarded the Greek and Latin tongues as in themselves so perfect, and at the same time so free from... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1910 - 796 pages
...not to gain what I. Thatjiksjiicaljitnidje^^ Ijectuarteaching, he maintained from the first! 2TThe study of language," he said, "seems to me as if it...purpose of forming the human mind in youth and the Greek tHemselves so "perfect, arid at the sarne'tlnle freed from the insuperable difficulty which must attend... | |
 | Francis Willey Kelsey - 1911 - 430 pages
...its best, founded his system on the classics. "The study of language," he said, "seems to me as if given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth; and the Greek and Latin languages .... seem the very instruments by which this is to be effected." Arnold was also deeply impressed with... | |
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he said, "seems to me as if it was given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ; and the Greek and Latin languages seem the very instruments by which this is to be effected. 
