Five Years in an English University, Volume 2G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... force , once said to me on the occasion of my having a prize essay printed , " I should not like to publish anything myself ; when you put a thing in print it seems as if you were perfectly satisfied with it , and I never am with what I ...
... force , once said to me on the occasion of my having a prize essay printed , " I should not like to publish anything myself ; when you put a thing in print it seems as if you were perfectly satisfied with it , and I never am with what I ...
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... force of the older members of the University against them , and chiefly confined themselves to winning the younger . Their operations were not unobserved throughout the country ; Evangelicals , Eclectics , and High Churchmen of the old ...
... force of the older members of the University against them , and chiefly confined themselves to winning the younger . Their operations were not unobserved throughout the country ; Evangelicals , Eclectics , and High Churchmen of the old ...
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... forces ? If the classics are to go overboard as not sufficiently practical , the mathematics must keep them company . " The What then is left for our students to study ? literature of their own language for one thing , " says one . Now ...
... forces ? If the classics are to go overboard as not sufficiently practical , the mathematics must keep them company . " The What then is left for our students to study ? literature of their own language for one thing , " says one . Now ...
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... force of bad example . * Perhaps these inaccuracies have their most ludicrous effect when coming in the form of information to others , as when some enterprising man with a commendable zeal for knowledge , but a very mistaken idea as to ...
... force of bad example . * Perhaps these inaccuracies have their most ludicrous effect when coming in the form of information to others , as when some enterprising man with a commendable zeal for knowledge , but a very mistaken idea as to ...
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... forces of a continent , that France writhed under the most cruel of des- potisms - the tyranny of a mob . The only method by which we can decide this question properly is , to ascertain what permanent principles can be evolved from the ...
... forces of a continent , that France writhed under the most cruel of des- potisms - the tyranny of a mob . The only method by which we can decide this question properly is , to ascertain what permanent principles can be evolved from the ...
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Page 402 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Page 402 - Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 445 - Principles Of Human Knowledge 1. OBJECTS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.—It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either IDEAS actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination—either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Page 446 - And as several of these are observed to accompany each other, they come to be marked by one name, and so to be reputed as one thing. Thus, for example, a certain colour, taste, smell, figure and consistence having been observed to go together, are accounted one distinct thing, signified by the name apple.
Page 401 - So little to be loved, and thou so much, That I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbound spirit into bonds again. Thou, as a gallant bark from Albion's coast (The storms all weather'd and the ocean...
Page 376 - One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of the Creator is, the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with the generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments...
Page 446 - By sight I have the ideas of light and colours with their several degrees and variations. By touch I perceive, for example, hard and soft, heat and cold, motion and resistance, and of all these more and less either as to quantity or degree. Smelling furnishes me with odours, the palate with tastes, and hearing conveys sounds to the mind in all their variety of tone and composition.
Page 348 - Upon the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of the base equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity.
Page 402 - Yet, oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he, That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...