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Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 42 - Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Home Thoughts from the Sea, Incident of the French Camp, Herve Riel, Pheidippides, My Last Duchess, Up at a Villa — Down in the City, The Italian in England, The Patriot, The Pied Piper, "De Gustibus
Stran 50 - Pope's The Rape of the Lock; Goldsmith's The Deserted Village', Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series) Books II and III., with especial attention to Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper and Burns. Group IV. (two to be selected) . Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield; Scott's Ivanhoe; Scott's Quentin Durward; Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables; Thackeray's Henry Esmond; Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford; Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities; George Eliot's Silas Marner; Blackmore's Lorna Doone.
Stran 21 - I think it the duty of every citizen, in the present condition of the country, to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and harmony and in no way to oppose the policy of the state or general government directed to that object. It is particularly incumbent on those charged with the instruction of the young to set them an example of submission to authority, and I could not consent to be the cause of animadversion upon the college.
Stran 50 - Joan of Arc and The English Mail Coach; Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship; Emerson's Essays (selected) ; Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies. Group VI. (two to be selected). Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; Scott's The Lady of the Lake; Byron's Mazeppa and The Prisoner of...
Stran 56 - College, which is the academic school, a student is allowed reasonable freedom in the election of his courses of study, but under such restrictions as to discourage premature and unwise specialization. He is accorded the largest liberty consistent with well-balanced culture. The degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy are offered.
Stran 17 - I could not, therefore, undertake more than general administration and supervision of the institution. There is another subject which has caused me serious reflection, and is, I think, worthy of the consideration of the Board. Being excluded from the terms of amnesty in the proclamation of the President of the United States of the 29th of May last, and an object of censure to a portion of the country...
Stran 18 - To promote literature in this rising empire, and to encourage the arts, have ever been amongst the warmest wishes of my heart. And if the donation which the generosity of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia has enabled me to bestow upon Liberty Hall, now by your politeness called -Washington Academy, is likely to prove a means to accomplish these ends, it will contribute to the gratification of my desires.
Stran 20 - GENTLEMEN — I have delayed for some days replying to your letter of the 5th inst., informing me of my election by the Board of Trustees to the Presidency of Washington College, from a desire to give the subject due consideration. Fully impressed with the responsibilities of the office, I have feared that I should be unable to discharge its duties to the satisfaction of the Trustees or to the benefit of the country. The proper education of youth requires not only great ability, but, I fear, more...
Stran 49 - Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, part I; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator...
Stran 42 - Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and The Passing of Arthur; Browning's Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix...