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... means of education thus afforded in America bears no comparison with the advance in ma- terial wealth . And how has it been with the other instrumentalities of American culture , during the last twenty - five years ? Schools have been ...
... means of education thus afforded in America bears no comparison with the advance in ma- terial wealth . And how has it been with the other instrumentalities of American culture , during the last twenty - five years ? Schools have been ...
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... means of culture are still provincial . Grant this one assumption , that we need a university , and then almost all the recent discussions on the subject seem to be merely questions of detail . There is small difficulty about discipline ...
... means of culture are still provincial . Grant this one assumption , that we need a university , and then almost all the recent discussions on the subject seem to be merely questions of detail . There is small difficulty about discipline ...
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... mean , and inspira- tion gone . A single gun - shot turned meanness to self- sacrifice , mercenary toil to the vigils of the camp and the transports of battle . It linked boyish and girlish life to new opportunities , sweeter self ...
... mean , and inspira- tion gone . A single gun - shot turned meanness to self- sacrifice , mercenary toil to the vigils of the camp and the transports of battle . It linked boyish and girlish life to new opportunities , sweeter self ...
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... mean a newspaper article , or perhaps a sermon , or a legal plea . One editor said that it could no longer be asserted that literature was ill paid in America , since Governor An- drew had received ten thousand dollars for an argument ...
... mean a newspaper article , or perhaps a sermon , or a legal plea . One editor said that it could no longer be asserted that literature was ill paid in America , since Governor An- drew had received ten thousand dollars for an argument ...
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... mean merely that they speak without elegance , but that in mo- ments of confidence they say " We was , " and " Them things , " and " I done it . " With the present predomi- nance of merely scientific studies , and the increasing dis ...
... mean merely that they speak without elegance , but that in mo- ments of confidence they say " We was , " and " Them things , " and " I done it . " With the present predomi- nance of merely scientific studies , and the increasing dis ...
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Page 81 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 336 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 317 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.
Page 201 - ... Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? 32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Page 318 - My bosom glowed ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung : IV. In dewy damps my limbs were chilled ; My blood with gentle horrors thrilled ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Page 74 - Nine years ! cries he, who high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger, and request of friends : " The piece, you think, is incorrect? why, take it, I 'm all submission, what you 'd have it, make it.
Page 133 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Page 37 - The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Page 41 - How much knowledge of the sweetest and deepest parts of our nature in it ! When I think of such a mind as Lamb's — when I see how unnoticed remain things of such exquisite and complete perfection, what should I hope for myself, if I had not higher objects in view than fame ? I have seen too little of Italy, and of pictures.
Page 136 - I am not ignorant that my stirring herein will be strangely reported and censured on that side ; and how I shall be able to sustain myself against your Prynnes, Pyms, and Bens, with the rest of that generation of odd names and natures, the Lord knows.