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... once but high - schools , and it was no uncommon thing for boys to graduate with honor at seventeen . I can easily recall three successive Harvard classes in which this happened . In one class , the first and second scholars were of ...
... once but high - schools , and it was no uncommon thing for boys to graduate with honor at seventeen . I can easily recall three successive Harvard classes in which this happened . In one class , the first and second scholars were of ...
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... gave to Greek . No ; he read a newspaper once a week , and two or three times a year he read a few pages of Virgil and Cicero , just to satisfy himself that it was a waste of time for a man who could 10 A PLEA FOR CULTURE .
... gave to Greek . No ; he read a newspaper once a week , and two or three times a year he read a few pages of Virgil and Cicero , just to satisfy himself that it was a waste of time for a man who could 10 A PLEA FOR CULTURE .
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... once stated it to me as an axiom , “ No eminent law- yer ever reads a book . " The chief discouragement of American literature does not seem to me to lie in the want of an international copy- right law , as some think , nor in the fact ...
... once stated it to me as an axiom , “ No eminent law- yer ever reads a book . " The chief discouragement of American literature does not seem to me to lie in the want of an international copy- right law , as some think , nor in the fact ...
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... once convinced that this higher training is desirable , we shall begin to feel the worth of our ac- cumulated wealth . That is true of wealth which Talley- rand said of wisdom , everybody is richer than anybody . The richest man in the ...
... once convinced that this higher training is desirable , we shall begin to feel the worth of our ac- cumulated wealth . That is true of wealth which Talley- rand said of wisdom , everybody is richer than anybody . The richest man in the ...
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... once thoroughly turned that way . For we must carefully distinguish between a want of cultivated sympathy with the higher intellectual pursuits , and a want of popular respect for them . It is this dis- tinction which relieves the ...
... once thoroughly turned that way . For we must carefully distinguish between a want of cultivated sympathy with the higher intellectual pursuits , and a want of popular respect for them . It is this dis- tinction which relieves the ...
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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.