Converging PathsUniversity Press, 1916 - 113 strani |
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... nature differ one from another ; the ideals , by whatever titles known , draw their several companies of adherents into a kindred , faintly acknowledged , or happily owned , or by vehement protest of denial made patent to the world ...
... nature differ one from another ; the ideals , by whatever titles known , draw their several companies of adherents into a kindred , faintly acknowledged , or happily owned , or by vehement protest of denial made patent to the world ...
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... natures hard with shyness , or perhaps in rare , unpremeditated words , we give them something more nearly matched with the exigent demands of their happiness or their pain . More nearly matched , but not equal to their need will be ...
... natures hard with shyness , or perhaps in rare , unpremeditated words , we give them something more nearly matched with the exigent demands of their happiness or their pain . More nearly matched , but not equal to their need will be ...
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... nature too harshly , if we say that few minds can sustain themselves for long periods at this altitude . They fall , out of sheer fatigue , to lower and easier levels , and here for the most part they reside . But the mind having once ...
... nature too harshly , if we say that few minds can sustain themselves for long periods at this altitude . They fall , out of sheer fatigue , to lower and easier levels , and here for the most part they reside . But the mind having once ...
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... natural harmony - this is the last test , and the highest triumph of the religious spirit . But what of teaching , or instruction ? Religion , that living system of fetters voluntarily assumed to tie men to a certain mode of life , is ...
... natural harmony - this is the last test , and the highest triumph of the religious spirit . But what of teaching , or instruction ? Religion , that living system of fetters voluntarily assumed to tie men to a certain mode of life , is ...
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... nature . They will not , of course , drag disconcerting morals into their ordinary lessons , they will not exhort their pupils to be accurate in arithmetic or precise in grammar in the name of honesty and truth , but , without speaking ...
... nature . They will not , of course , drag disconcerting morals into their ordinary lessons , they will not exhort their pupils to be accurate in arithmetic or precise in grammar in the name of honesty and truth , but , without speaking ...
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6d net accept answer Apollo Aristotle beauty become Campagnac canon Cicero claim Commercial Education common convention course criticism Crown 8vo discipline divine duties earning Egypt eloquence emotion employers Encyclopaedia Britannica experience expression fact freedom give golden mean grace Greek harmony heart hope human idea ideal imagination individual intelligence judgment kind kindred knowledge labour language lawgiver less liberal education living living machines LL.D maintained meaning measure ment mind moral motion nature offer once orator oratory ourselves passage perfect perhaps persons Plato pleasure plumbers possess powers prepare boys pupils question Quintilian reason recognised religious rhythm satirist schoolmasters schools sense society soul sovereign speak speaker speech St Augustine standard STANFORD UNIVERSITY taste teachers teaching things thought tion true truth University of Liverpool virtue wisdom words youth
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Stran 76 - ... he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason why...
Stran 75 - Glaucon, musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul...
Stran 74 - And ugliness and discord and inharmonious motion are nearly allied to ill words and ill nature, as grace and harmony are the twin sisters of goodness and virtue and bear their likeness.
Stran 78 - ... as well as the contrary forms, in all their combinations, and can recognize them and their images wherever they are found, not slighting them either in small things or great, but believing them all to be within the sphere of one art and study.
Stran 85 - You will wonder when I tell you: Long ago they appear to have recognized the very principle of which we are now speaking — that their young citizens must be habituated to forms and strains of virtue. These they fixed, and exhibited the patterns of them in their temples; and no painter...
Stran 99 - A CONTEMPLATIVE MAN Is a scholar in this great university the world; and the same his book and study. He cloisters not his meditations in the narrow darkness of a room, but sends them abroad with his eyes, and his brain travels with his feet. He looks upon man from a high tower, and sees him trulier at this distance in his infirmities and poorness. He scorns to mix himself in men's actions, as he would to act upon a stage; but sits aloft on the scaffold a censuring spectator. [He...
Stran 53 - It is true there is an obligation which a compact carries with it, equal in point of conscience to that of a law; but then the original of the obligation is different.
Stran 72 - For men say that the young of all creatures cannot be quiet in their bodies or in their voices; they are always wanting to move and cry out; some leaping and skipping, and overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something, others uttering all sorts of cries. But, whereas the animals have no perception of order or disorder in their movements, that is, of rhythm or harmony, as they are called, to us the Gods, who, as we say, have been appointed to be our companions in the dance, have given the...
Stran 86 - How statesmanlike, how worthy of a legislator! I know that other things in Egypt are not so well. But what I am telling you about music is true and deserving of consideration, because showing that a lawgiver may institute melodies which have a natural truth and correctness without any fear of failure.
Stran 70 - And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.