Essays Moral and Literary, Bind 2James Decker, 1800 - 2 sider |
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Side 116 - Not once in a hundred times does any officer enter ; and, if he does, he hears one syllogism or two, and then makes a bow, and departs, as he came and remained, in solemn silence. The disputants then return to the amusement of cutting the desks, carving their names, or reading Sterne's Sentimental Journey, or some other edifying novel.
Side 201 - Habits are formed, which render what was at first disagreeable, not only pleasant but necessary. Pleasant, indeed, are all the paths which lead to polite and elegant literature. Yours then, is surely a lot particularly happy. Your education is of such a sort, that its principal scope is, to prepare you to receive a refined pleasure during your life.
Side 177 - They purfue th«ir own plans with ardour, and neglect the opinions which others entertain of them. By fome thoughtlefs action or expreffion, they fuffer a mark to be imprefled upon them, which fcarcely any fubfequent merit can entirely erafe. Every man will find fome perfons, who, though they are not profefled enemies, yet view him with...
Side 117 - The candidate to be examined employs three or four days in learning these by heart, and the examiners, having done the same before him when they were examined, know what questions to ask, and so all goes on smoothly.
Side 116 - Sophs 1 ; but not before they have been formally created by one of the regent-masters, before whom they kneel, while he lays a volume of Aristotle's works on their heads, and puts on a hood, a piece of black crape, hanging from their necks, and down to their heels ; which crape, it is...
Side 201 - If you have resolution enough to do this, you cannot but love learning ; for the mind always loves that to which it has been long, steadily, and voluntarily attached.
Side 176 - ... fitted up in the moft elegant tafte , but by the faireft reputation.' Look into a daily newfpaper , and you will fee , from the higheft to the loweft rank, how important the characters of the employed appear to the employers. After the advertifement has enumerated the qualities req uired in the perfon wanted, there conftantly follows, that none need apply who cannot bring an undeniable characler.
Side 117 - The masters take a most solemn oath, that they will examine properly and impartially. Dreadful as all this appears, there is always found to be more of appearance in it than reality ; for the greatest dunce usually gets his testimonium signed with as much ease and credit as the finest genius. The manner of proceeding is as follows : The poor young man to be examined in the...
Side 115 - This opposing and responding is termed in the cant of the place doing generals. Two boys or men as they call themselves agree to do generals together. The first step in this mighty work is to procure arguments. These are always handed down, from generation to generation on long slips of paper, and consist of foolish syllogisms on foolish subjects of the formation or the signification of which the respondent...
Side 106 - ... nature. It is then a natural queftion, in what does this fuperiority confift ? It arifes not from learning , for the moft illiterate claim it , and are indulged in the claim ; it arifes not from virtue , for the moft vicious are not excluded. Wealth, beauty, birth, and elegance, are not the only qualifications for it , becaufe many enjoy it \vho have no juft pretenfion to either , and many are excluded who poflefs them all.