The Method Off Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physics, &c. ...W.J. and J. Richardson, J. Walker, 1804 - Education |
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... kind of inequa- lity among them . But finding he should meet with more difficulty in this , if he attempted it openly , he went another way to work , by sapping the very foun- dations of avarice . For , first of all he prohibited all ...
... kind of inequa- lity among them . But finding he should meet with more difficulty in this , if he attempted it openly , he went another way to work , by sapping the very foun- dations of avarice . For , first of all he prohibited all ...
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... kind of slaves , cultivated their lands , and paid them a certain revenue for them . It was Lycurgus's will that his citizens should have a great deal of leisure . They had common halls , where they met together for conversation . And ...
... kind of slaves , cultivated their lands , and paid them a certain revenue for them . It was Lycurgus's will that his citizens should have a great deal of leisure . They had common halls , where they met together for conversation . And ...
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... kind of govern- ment , that seemed most conducive to the interest of the republic , by qualifying one with the other , and balancing the inconveniences of each in particular by the advantages arising from the union of all together ...
... kind of govern- ment , that seemed most conducive to the interest of the republic , by qualifying one with the other , and balancing the inconveniences of each in particular by the advantages arising from the union of all together ...
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... kind to be met with in history ! The wisest and most understanding men of Sparta , adhering strictly to the law , were of opinion [ y ] that this gold and silver should be thrown out of the city with horror and execration , as a fatal ...
... kind to be met with in history ! The wisest and most understanding men of Sparta , adhering strictly to the law , were of opinion [ y ] that this gold and silver should be thrown out of the city with horror and execration , as a fatal ...
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... kind was necessary to make a people happy . Equity , moderation , liberty , and peace , were the prin- cipal end of his policy , which has so justly been the admiration of all the ages , as it was an utter enemy to all wrong , violence ...
... kind was necessary to make a people happy . Equity , moderation , liberty , and peace , were the prin- cipal end of his policy , which has so justly been the admiration of all the ages , as it was an utter enemy to all wrong , violence ...
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Page 402 - And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented...
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Page 445 - QUINCTILIAN says, that he has included almost all the duty of scholars in this one piece of advice which he gives them, to love those who teach them, as they love the sciences which they...
Page 334 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son : but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Page 291 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 322 - Things, and not when we stop at them; when they serve us as Preparatives and Instruments for better Knowledge, without which the rest would be useless. Youth would have Cause to complain, if they were condemned to spend eight or ten of the best Years of their Life in learning, at a great Expence, and with incredible Pains, one or two Languages, and some other Matters of a like Nature, which perhaps they would seldom have Occasion to use. The end of Masters, in the long Course of their Studies, is...
Page 307 - Now what is it but good education which enables all the citizens and great men, and princes above the rest, to perform their different functions in a deserving manner? Is it not evident that youth are as the nursery of the state? That it is renewed and perpetuated by them? That from among them all the fathers of families, all magistrates and ministers, in a word, all persons placed in authority and power are taken?
Page 322 - The end of Masters, in the long Course of their Studies, is to habituate their Scholars to serious Application of Mind, to make them love and value the Sciences, and to cultivate in them such a Taste, as shall make them thirst after them when they are gone from School...
Page 447 - Quintillian sets upon the talents of the mind, he esteems those of the heart far beyond them, and looks upon the others as of no value without them. In the same chapter...
Page 445 - The one can do nothing without the other; and as it is not sufficient for a labourer to sow the seed, unless the earth, after having opened its bosom to receive it...