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... " Silver Feftival . " If the bulk of the book were but earth , this rose , like that of Saadi's Gulistan , would be enough to fweeten the whole lump . New York , Nov. 28 , 1860 . STUDENT LIFE . I GENERAL IDEAS OF STUDY . DEAR 8 Preface .
... " Silver Feftival . " If the bulk of the book were but earth , this rose , like that of Saadi's Gulistan , would be enough to fweeten the whole lump . New York , Nov. 28 , 1860 . STUDENT LIFE . I GENERAL IDEAS OF STUDY . DEAR 8 Preface .
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... whole education , break the line of study , and even impair your powers of thinking . Studies of fequence are like the bolts that fasten the train of cars to the engine , whilst studies of aggregation are like the baggage which is to be ...
... whole education , break the line of study , and even impair your powers of thinking . Studies of fequence are like the bolts that fasten the train of cars to the engine , whilst studies of aggregation are like the baggage which is to be ...
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... whole fome brown earth where growth most thrives ; and I could not promife well of any student's future who did not have among his intimates fome hard - working companions from the great middling class of our people , whose habits and ...
... whole fome brown earth where growth most thrives ; and I could not promife well of any student's future who did not have among his intimates fome hard - working companions from the great middling class of our people , whose habits and ...
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... whole of our nature best learns to walk its choral round , and mind and heart and will may keep ftep with the hours to the cheering mufic that is made by the pulfe - beats of young and healthy blood . A true fyftem of habits has its ...
... whole of our nature best learns to walk its choral round , and mind and heart and will may keep ftep with the hours to the cheering mufic that is made by the pulfe - beats of young and healthy blood . A true fyftem of habits has its ...
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... whole fen- fitive organism . In judging of the harm done by the leading vices to which youth is tempted , it is well to judge of them by three tests — quantity , quality , and relation— according to the categories of the new logic ...
... whole fen- fitive organism . In judging of the harm done by the leading vices to which youth is tempted , it is well to judge of them by three tests — quantity , quality , and relation— according to the categories of the new logic ...
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Page 91 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Page 141 - I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work d ." Two doctrines, both of them distinctly Christian, throw their guardian shadows over the lesson.
Page 1 - So, well accorded, forth they rode together In friendly sort, that lasted but a while; And of all old dislikes they made faire weather : Yet all was forg'd and spred with golden foyle, That under it hidde hate and hollow guyle. Ne certes can that friendship long endure, However gay and goodly be the style, That doth ill cause or evill end enure : For vertue is the band that bindeth harts most sure.
Page 37 - I remember with especial pleasure our evenings with Chaucer and Spenser at Professor Edward T. Channing's study. How his genial face shone in the light of the winter's fire, and threw new meaning upon the rare gems of thought and humor and imagination of those kings of ancient song.
Page 95 - There is in human nature, generally, more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of mens'minds is taken, are most potent.
Page 58 - ... experiment As to hours of study, they should never exceed those now made the limit of manual labor — ten hours — and I believe that six hours of close application will in the long run accomplish more good work than twelve hours. If a youth actually studies six hours, and adds to this the time spent in going to and from recitation and in waiting for others to recite, he will find very little of the working part of the day left If we add to six hours of actual work over books the time usually...
Page 58 - ... this the time spent in going to and from recitation and in waiting for others to recite, he will find very little of the working part of the day left If we add to six hours of actual work over books the time usually given by an earnest student to thought, and reading, and instructive conversation, it will be found that twelve out of the twenty-four hours are generally given to the culture of the mind. Stating my views in another way, I can say that there is wisdom in dividing the day into three...
Page 129 - Brothers, claffmates, with the dawn Of the morrow we are gone, And Life's broad ocean lies All before us!
Page 57 - ... retire and rise an hour later. As to any considerable study before breakfast, I do not recommend it, and am inclined to think as poorly of morning candle-light as of the midnight lamp. I tried once to steal time for translating a work from the German by early morning study, and the symptoms of a nervous fever that appeared in the course of a few weeks led me never to repeat the experiment As to hours of study, they should never exceed those now made the limit of manual labor — ten hours —...