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... learning which have disappeared in the general wreck of the Christian empire of Constantinople . This is perhaps even more plain from the Excerpta , or digested collections from various authors , made under Constantine Porphyrogenitus ...
... learning which have disappeared in the general wreck of the Christian empire of Constantinople . This is perhaps even more plain from the Excerpta , or digested collections from various authors , made under Constantine Porphyrogenitus ...
Side 9
... learning . On the other , their apologists portray the monasteries , at one time as busy schools of enlightenment , at another as peaceful sanctuaries in which the lamp of classic learning never ceased to burn . Mr. Edwards has treated ...
... learning . On the other , their apologists portray the monasteries , at one time as busy schools of enlightenment , at another as peaceful sanctuaries in which the lamp of classic learning never ceased to burn . Mr. Edwards has treated ...
Side 10
... learning for learning's sake , nor regard his reply to the argument in evidence of the excessive rarity of books which these writers found on a few plainly exceptional instances of dearness , as other than perfectly conclusive . An ...
... learning for learning's sake , nor regard his reply to the argument in evidence of the excessive rarity of books which these writers found on a few plainly exceptional instances of dearness , as other than perfectly conclusive . An ...
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... learning . Nevertheless the monks of Monte Cassino had grown famous as early as the eleventh century for their transcriptions of Virgil , Horace , Theocritus , Terence , Ovid , and many of the History of Agriculture and Prices in ...
... learning . Nevertheless the monks of Monte Cassino had grown famous as early as the eleventh century for their transcriptions of Virgil , Horace , Theocritus , Terence , Ovid , and many of the History of Agriculture and Prices in ...
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... learning , scarcely a single fragment can be traced to that great collection which was the glory and the marvel of its age , and which , humanly speaking , seemed to promise most and best for the perpetuation of classic learning in the ...
... learning , scarcely a single fragment can be traced to that great collection which was the glory and the marvel of its age , and which , humanly speaking , seemed to promise most and best for the perpetuation of classic learning in the ...
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Side 570 - Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?
Side 111 - Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Side 113 - What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.
Side 112 - I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
Side 113 - ... shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Here you stand, Adore and worship, when you know it not ; Pious beyond the intention of your thought, Devout above the meaning of your will.
Side 111 - I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes oblivion of it.
Side 570 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend* From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there...
Side 111 - It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten bv their first "conviction of sin.
Side 112 - The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.