A Defence of Classical EducationMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1916 - 278 sider |
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Side viii
... Greece on the world at different epochs ; meaning of Greek life to the Renaissance ; its meaning to us ; a modern working man on Greece • • ( c ) as a pattern of creative intelligence ; her achievement ; Greek literature full of the key ...
... Greece on the world at different epochs ; meaning of Greek life to the Renaissance ; its meaning to us ; a modern working man on Greece • • ( c ) as a pattern of creative intelligence ; her achievement ; Greek literature full of the key ...
Side ix
... Greece : her achievement . • 3. Some typical Romans ; Cato the Censor ; signifi- cance and value of these characters The Romans appeal to us ( a ) as more like us ; Agricola : ( 6 ) as having done a similar work in the world ; the ...
... Greece : her achievement . • 3. Some typical Romans ; Cato the Censor ; signifi- cance and value of these characters The Romans appeal to us ( a ) as more like us ; Agricola : ( 6 ) as having done a similar work in the world ; the ...
Side 55
... Greece in literature and the arts . MATTHEW ARNOLD . GREECE and her foundations are Built below the tide of war , Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity . SHELLEY . In our last chapter we saw that an education based on ...
... Greece in literature and the arts . MATTHEW ARNOLD . GREECE and her foundations are Built below the tide of war , Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity . SHELLEY . In our last chapter we saw that an education based on ...
Side 58
... and Greek because there was a time when the fullest know- ledge of various sciences was contained in Greek books . But it is true that the history of Greece and Rome is the history of the origins of the 58 CLASSICAL EDUCATION.
... and Greek because there was a time when the fullest know- ledge of various sciences was contained in Greek books . But it is true that the history of Greece and Rome is the history of the origins of the 58 CLASSICAL EDUCATION.
Side 61
... Greece or Rome . Certainly if we are curious to explain our characters by heredity , we cannot ignore our spiritual ancestors . = Imagine for a moment that we had never heard the names of Greece and Rome . What should we lose by our ...
... Greece or Rome . Certainly if we are curious to explain our characters by heredity , we cannot ignore our spiritual ancestors . = Imagine for a moment that we had never heard the names of Greece and Rome . What should we lose by our ...
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Side 75 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Side 38 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who...
Side 37 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart; Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart: Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget!
Side 64 - Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence alone.
Side 96 - I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
Side 96 - I will keep this oath and this stipulation— to reckon him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him and relieve his necessities if required, to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn it without fee or stipulation...
Side 75 - How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Side 81 - Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of the beautiful and graceful ; then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul from earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason.
Side 116 - Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.
Side 38 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.