The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physics, &c. ...W. Otridge and son, 1810 |
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... enemy might be ; never to quit their post ; never to surrender their arms ; in a word , to conquer or die . [ o ] And hence it was , that a mother advised her son , who was setting out for a campaign , to return with his buckler , or ...
... enemy might be ; never to quit their post ; never to surrender their arms ; in a word , to conquer or die . [ o ] And hence it was , that a mother advised her son , who was setting out for a campaign , to return with his buckler , or ...
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... enemy in full confidence , as being thoroughly assured of the divine protection , or to use the expression of Plutarch , as if God were present , and fought with them ; ὡς τῷ Θεῖ συμπαρόντος . When they had broke their enemies , and put ...
... enemy in full confidence , as being thoroughly assured of the divine protection , or to use the expression of Plutarch , as if God were present , and fought with them ; ὡς τῷ Θεῖ συμπαρόντος . When they had broke their enemies , and put ...
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... enemy at a distance . But soon perceiving , that these remote and maritime offices of command corrupted the manners of their generals , they readily gave them up , as we have al- ready observed in the case of king Pausanias . Lycurgus ...
... enemy at a distance . But soon perceiving , that these remote and maritime offices of command corrupted the manners of their generals , they readily gave them up , as we have al- ready observed in the case of king Pausanias . Lycurgus ...
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... enemy to all wrong , violence , ambition , or a desire of ruling and extending the bounds of the Spartan republic . Reflections of this kind , which are frequent in Plu- tarch's lives , and are the greatest and most valuable beauty ...
... enemy to all wrong , violence , ambition , or a desire of ruling and extending the bounds of the Spartan republic . Reflections of this kind , which are frequent in Plu- tarch's lives , and are the greatest and most valuable beauty ...
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... enemies to yourselves than the Barbarians ! A man must have been absolutely master of himself , and have a great respect for public authority , to abandon with so instant an obedience all the conquests he had made , and the future hopes ...
... enemies to yourselves than the Barbarians ! A man must have been absolutely master of himself , and have a great respect for public authority , to abandon with so instant an obedience all the conquests he had made , and the future hopes ...
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Page 388 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested...
Page 404 - 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.
Page 389 - See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days ; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Page 447 - QUINTILIAN says, [A] 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 learn of...
Page 447 - ... and to look upon them as fathers, from whom they derive not the life of the body, but that instruction which is in a manner the life of the soul.
Page 447 - 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...
Page 322 - Masters should have in View, is not barely to teach their Scholars Greek and Latin, to learn them to make Exercises and Verses, to charge their Memory with Facts and historical Dates, to draw up Syllogisms in Form, or to trace Lines and Figures upon Paper. These...
Page 333 - ... made use of by those who are entrusted with the education of youth. But this remedy becomes often a more dangerous evil than those they would cure, if employed out of season or beyond measure. For besides that the corrections of the rod and the lash we are now speaking of, have something unbecoming, mean, and servile in them, they have nothing in themselves to remedy any fault committed, nor is it likely that such a correction may become useful to a child, if the shame of suffering for having...
Page 449 - 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...