A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Reverend John Thornton Kirkland, ...: Delivered in the Church on Church Green, May 3, 1840C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1840 - 104 strani |
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... principles of their faith . One of the most valuable services that Christianity rendered to learning , was by preserving the classical languages , the Latin in particu- lar , from extinction , when the ancient civilization was overrun ...
... principles of their faith . One of the most valuable services that Christianity rendered to learning , was by preserving the classical languages , the Latin in particu- lar , from extinction , when the ancient civilization was overrun ...
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... principle of social order and of the sacred charities of life , but the sole guardian of ancient knowledge , letters , and arts . It made a bridge , as it were , across the chaos , and linked the two periods of ancient and modern ...
... principle of social order and of the sacred charities of life , but the sole guardian of ancient knowledge , letters , and arts . It made a bridge , as it were , across the chaos , and linked the two periods of ancient and modern ...
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... principles , and his high promise of future eminence , that I can confidently assure you he was of the number who had obtained the highest standing in the estimation of his contempo- raries . " He was graduated in 1789 , with ...
... principles , and his high promise of future eminence , that I can confidently assure you he was of the number who had obtained the highest standing in the estimation of his contempo- raries . " He was graduated in 1789 , with ...
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... principle and conduct . My class was large , and a spirit of buckism was very universally prevalent among them . I did not , however , lose my thirst for knowledge or sense of honor , and thought I studied as much as I had time to . I ...
... principle and conduct . My class was large , and a spirit of buckism was very universally prevalent among them . I did not , however , lose my thirst for knowledge or sense of honor , and thought I studied as much as I had time to . I ...
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... principles of an en- larged catholic spirit cherished in him by his tutor , Mr. Leverett , now President of Harvard College , " and adds , " if I am able to judge , no place of education can well boast of a more free air than our little ...
... principles of an en- larged catholic spirit cherished in him by his tutor , Mr. Leverett , now President of Harvard College , " and adds , " if I am able to judge , no place of education can well boast of a more free air than our little ...
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Stran 32 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes; put from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Stran 96 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Stran 70 - This liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just and honest.
Stran 11 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government ; one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Stran 61 - A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
Stran 17 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful...
Stran 47 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Stran 46 - But, the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness...
Stran 95 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit. who in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Stran 103 - YE golden lamps of heaven, farewell, With all your feeble light ; Farewell, thou ever-changing moon, Pale empress of the night. 2 And thou, refulgent orb of day, In brighter flames arrayed, My soul, that springs beyond thy sphere, No more demands thine aid.