Education and Citizenship: And Other Papers |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achievement active Ameri American aspirations bachelor beauty Business is business Carlyle Carolinians civic civilization clear commercialism confidence constructive coöperation criticism culture democracy democratic Devil's Advocate EDWARD KIDDER GRAHAM efficiency expression Ezra Cornell fact faculty faith feeling fight freedom French Revolution give happiness heart higher education Hinton James human idea ideals industry inspiration institution interest interpret King Arthur knowledge lack leadership less liberal living master material Material efficiency Matthew Arnold means ment mental Meredith College merely mind mood nation nature ness North Carolina Odysseus organization passion patriotism perfection practical present President problems profession Professor progress prosperity question relations schools sort Southern spirit standard student success supreme sweetness sympathy task teachers teaching things thinking Thomas Gray thought tion to-day true truly truth University of North University Record vision vital wealth whole worth young youth
Popular passages
Page 23 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 238 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 25 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 228 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
Page 237 - If thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou boldest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy.
Page 213 - And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory, images and precious thoughts, That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
Page 59 - One knocked at the Beloved's door, and a voice asked from within « Who is there ? ' and he answered 'It is I.' Then the voice said, 'This house will not hold me and thee ; ' and the door was not opened. Then went the lover into the desert and fasted and prayed in solitude, and after a year he returned and knocked again at the door; and again the voice asked 'Who is there?' and he said 'It is thyself ; ' and the door was opened to him.
Page 186 - My country — may she ever be right; but, right or wrong, my country.
Page 157 - There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Page 16 - ... as the purely practical mind would consider, of all human pursuits ; if ' idle star-gazers ' had not watched long and carefully the motions of the heavenly bodies — our modern astronomy would have been impossible, and without our astronomy ' our ships, our colonies, our seamen,' all which makes modern life modern life could not have existed.