Precept and example, in the instructive letters of eminent men to their younger friends: with short biographs of the writersTaylor and Hessey, 1825 - 272 sider |
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... political creed he may be , but laments the untimely and cruel death of the high - spirited Algernon Sidney ? · The ancestor of this romantic family , Sir Henry Sidney , if not himself the greatest of his name , may , from the tone of ...
... political creed he may be , but laments the untimely and cruel death of the high - spirited Algernon Sidney ? · The ancestor of this romantic family , Sir Henry Sidney , if not himself the greatest of his name , may , from the tone of ...
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... Politics ; to know the beginning , end , and reasons of political societies , that they may not , in a dangerous fit of the commonwealth , be such poor shaken and uncertain reeds , of such tot- tering conscience , as many of our great ...
... Politics ; to know the beginning , end , and reasons of political societies , that they may not , in a dangerous fit of the commonwealth , be such poor shaken and uncertain reeds , of such tot- tering conscience , as many of our great ...
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... political orations , offer them- selves ; which if they were not only read , but some of them got by memory , and solemnly pronounced with right accent and grace , as might be taught , would endue them even with the spirit and vigour of ...
... political orations , offer them- selves ; which if they were not only read , but some of them got by memory , and solemnly pronounced with right accent and grace , as might be taught , would endue them even with the spirit and vigour of ...
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... political as well as polemical . Upon the Restoration he , of course , like others of republican principles , lost his employment , and retired to Jewin - street , near Aldersgate , where he at length undertook his immortal work , The ...
... political as well as polemical . Upon the Restoration he , of course , like others of republican principles , lost his employment , and retired to Jewin - street , near Aldersgate , where he at length undertook his immortal work , The ...
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... political or domestic affairs , without taking advice ; even a letter to a great man , upon any business , was submitted to the judg- ment of his friends or confidants . The reader will observe how frequently he inculcates upon the mind ...
... political or domestic affairs , without taking advice ; even a letter to a great man , upon any business , was submitted to the judg- ment of his friends or confidants . The reader will observe how frequently he inculcates upon the mind ...
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advantage advice amongst attain behaviour bless Burleigh character Christian religion church of England commend conversation court dear nephew death delight Demosthenes desire diligence discommend duty Earl of Chatham EARL OF STRAFFORD endeavour English father fortune frequently friends genius gentle give grace Greek happy hath hear heart heaven Historiographer Royal holy honour hope human James Howel knowledge language Latin laws learning letter live Lord Lord Burleigh manner matter maxims mean memory ment method Milton mind moral nature never Newton noble obedience obligation observe passions perhaps philosophy piety pleasure Plutarch political prayers PRECEPT principles proper prudence racter reason rules Scriptures Sir Eardley Sir Henry Sidney Sir Isaac Newton Sir Philip Sidney soul speak spirit temper things Thomas Pitt thought tion true truth virtue wisdom wise wish words write youth
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Side 106 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Side 39 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
Side 36 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Side 32 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.
Side 45 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Side 28 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar...
Side 34 - And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of universities not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages that instead of beginning with arts most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics...
Side 36 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Side 33 - ... forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention.
Side 46 - These are the studies wherein our noble and our gentle youth ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way from twelve to one-and-twenty ; unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead than upon themselves living. In which methodical course it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward, as at convenient times, for memory's sake, to retire back into the middle ward, and sometimes into the rear of what they have been taught, until they have confirmed and solidly united...