The Method Off Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physics, &c. ...W.J. and J. Richardson, J. Walker, 1804 |
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... judge only by the event , there inust have been a large fund of wisdom and prudence in the laws of Lycurgus , since so long as they were ob- served at Sparta , which was for above five hundred years , that city was so powerful and ...
... judge only by the event , there inust have been a large fund of wisdom and prudence in the laws of Lycurgus , since so long as they were ob- served at Sparta , which was for above five hundred years , that city was so powerful and ...
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... judge and so exact a moralist ; nor do I recollect that any of the ancients ever charged it as a crime upon Ly- curgus or the Lacedaemonians . Upon what then do the moderns found the sen- tence they pass upon it ? Certainly upon not ...
... judge and so exact a moralist ; nor do I recollect that any of the ancients ever charged it as a crime upon Ly- curgus or the Lacedaemonians . Upon what then do the moderns found the sen- tence they pass upon it ? Certainly upon not ...
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... judge of the property and use of our substance , had granted no privilege to any one private man over the substance of another ; whereas the law of the Lacedæmonians had done just the contrary . It would have been a real theft to have ...
... judge of the property and use of our substance , had granted no privilege to any one private man over the substance of another ; whereas the law of the Lacedæmonians had done just the contrary . It would have been a real theft to have ...
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... judge of the ab- horrence they had for it from the beginning , by the answer they gave to the embassadors of king Porsenna , who earnestly solicited the restoration of the Tarquins . [ n ] They declared they were rather disposed to open ...
... judge of the ab- horrence they had for it from the beginning , by the answer they gave to the embassadors of king Porsenna , who earnestly solicited the restoration of the Tarquins . [ n ] They declared they were rather disposed to open ...
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... judge most beautiful in Polybius , Livy , and Plutarch , which are the ori ginals from whence I shall extract the best part o what I have to say upon this subject , with reference either to the facts themselves , or the reflections ...
... judge most beautiful in Polybius , Livy , and Plutarch , which are the ori ginals from whence I shall extract the best part o what I have to say upon this subject , with reference either to the facts themselves , or the reflections ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration advantage agreeable amongst ancient army ARTICLE authority battle beautiful boys Cæsar Carthage Carthaginians centena millia character citizens command conquered conquests consul Demaratus discourse disposition duty empire enemy enim Fabius father faults favour give glory gods greatest Greece Greek Hannibal happy honour justice kind king labour Lacedæmonians laws learning liberty Livy Lycurgus Macedon mankind manner Masinissa master means millia HS mind nature never obliged observed occasion officers passion Pelopidas persons Philosophy Plato pleasure Plut Plutarch Polybius prince principal probity quæ quàm Quintilian quòd racter reason religion republic Roman republic Romans Rome Sallust says scholars Scipio second Punic war senate Senec sesterces sestertii shew Sparta speaking Syphax taste ther thing thousand tion troops Tully victory virtue whilst whole wisdom youth καὶ
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Página 402 - And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented...
Página 334 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Página 445 - QUINCTILIAN says, that he has included almost all the duty of scholars in this one piece of advice which he gives them, to love those who teach them, as they love the sciences which they...
Página 334 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son : but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Página 291 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Página 322 - Things, and not when we stop at them; when they serve us as Preparatives and Instruments for better Knowledge, without which the rest would be useless. Youth would have Cause to complain, if they were condemned to spend eight or ten of the best Years of their Life in learning, at a great Expence, and with incredible Pains, one or two Languages, and some other Matters of a like Nature, which perhaps they would seldom have Occasion to use. The end of Masters, in the long Course of their Studies, is...
Página 307 - Now what is it but good education which enables all the citizens and great men, and princes above the rest, to perform their different functions in a deserving manner? Is it not evident that youth are as the nursery of the state? That it is renewed and perpetuated by them? That from among them all the fathers of families, all magistrates and ministers, in a word, all persons placed in authority and power are taken?
Página 322 - The end of Masters, in the long Course of their Studies, is to habituate their Scholars to serious Application of Mind, to make them love and value the Sciences, and to cultivate in them such a Taste, as shall make them thirst after them when they are gone from School...
Página 447 - Quintillian sets upon the talents of the mind, he esteems those of the heart far beyond them, and looks upon the others as of no value without them. In the same chapter...
Página 445 - The one can do nothing without the other; and as it is not sufficient for a labourer to sow the seed, unless the earth, after having opened its bosom to receive it...