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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... Never to hazard his Person without a Ne- cessity , 8. Art and Dexterity , 9. To have the Talent of speaking and conci- liating others to his Purposes with Ad- dress , The Conclusion , II . Moral and Civil Virtues ; 1. Generosity and ...
... Never to hazard his Person without a Ne- cessity , 8. Art and Dexterity , 9. To have the Talent of speaking and conci- liating others to his Purposes with Ad- dress , The Conclusion , II . Moral and Civil Virtues ; 1. Generosity and ...
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... never low or shocking ; and as soon as any one was perceived to grow uneasy at it , they al- ways left off . Here also they learned to keep a se- cret ; and when a young man entered the hall , the eldest would say to him , pointing to ...
... never low or shocking ; and as soon as any one was perceived to grow uneasy at it , they al- ways left off . Here also they learned to keep a se- cret ; and when a young man entered the hall , the eldest would say to him , pointing to ...
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... never to turn their backs , how far superior soever in number the 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 ...
... never to turn their backs , how far superior soever in number the 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 ...
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... never went to battle , till they had implored the assistance of the gods by sacrifices and public prayers , and then they marched against the enemy in full confidence , as being thoroughly assured of the divine protection , or to use ...
... never went to battle , till they had implored the assistance of the gods by sacrifices and public prayers , and then they marched against the enemy in full confidence , as being thoroughly assured of the divine protection , or to use ...
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... never hope for solid and lasting happiness by any other means but virtue . Men of corrupt manners , [ c ] adds Plutarch , who think nothing more valuable than riches , and a power- ful and large dominion , may give the preference to ...
... never hope for solid and lasting happiness by any other means but virtue . Men of corrupt manners , [ c ] adds Plutarch , who think nothing more valuable than riches , and a power- ful and large dominion , may give the preference to ...
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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...