The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and reader), ed. by H. Pitman, Volumes 1-3Henry Pitman 1856 |
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... attained , but in an energy of mind , the very exercise of which is happiness itself ; in like manner the highest intellectual development was seen to con- sist not in a store of positive knowledge , laid up within us , but in that love ...
... attained , but in an energy of mind , the very exercise of which is happiness itself ; in like manner the highest intellectual development was seen to con- sist not in a store of positive knowledge , laid up within us , but in that love ...
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... attained . Let us then try to borrow the light of philosophy , to aid us in assigning the course of a true human education . It is hardly necessary to premise , that in order to educate the mind rightly ; in order to draw forth its ...
... attained . Let us then try to borrow the light of philosophy , to aid us in assigning the course of a true human education . It is hardly necessary to premise , that in order to educate the mind rightly ; in order to draw forth its ...
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... attained - how it has learned all its first lessons in time and space ; to how perfect a use of the senses it has arrived ; how accurately it can judge the relations of form , of size , of distance ; how it can distinguish not only the ...
... attained - how it has learned all its first lessons in time and space ; to how perfect a use of the senses it has arrived ; how accurately it can judge the relations of form , of size , of distance ; how it can distinguish not only the ...
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... attaining complete moral con- trol over the lower impulses - and the emotions elevated into a pure and ardent love to beauty , goodness , and truth . To enter into the processes by which this state may be attained stretches beyond the ...
... attaining complete moral con- trol over the lower impulses - and the emotions elevated into a pure and ardent love to beauty , goodness , and truth . To enter into the processes by which this state may be attained stretches beyond the ...
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... attain to honorable distinction ; for it is not by sleeping , but by waking , watching , and labouring continually , that proficiency is attained and reputation acquired . " At the period when an accident gave the future bias to his ...
... attain to honorable distinction ; for it is not by sleeping , but by waking , watching , and labouring continually , that proficiency is attained and reputation acquired . " At the period when an accident gave the future bias to his ...
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Page 226 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it...
Page 209 - O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, — Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt!
Page 2 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 86 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 213 - Touch her not scornfully; Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanly; Not of the stains of her; All that remains of her Now is pure womanly. Make no deep scrutiny Into her mutiny Rash and undutiful; Past all dishonor, Death has left on her Only the beautiful.
Page 276 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 209 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures
Page 216 - We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object...
Page 271 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 9 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.