Apology for New Principles in Education, Volumen45,Tema 2

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John H.A. Frost, 1818 - 40 páginas
 

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Página 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Página 2 - We are disposed to ascribe so much power to these obstructions to intellectual originality, that we cannot help fancying, that if Franklin had been bred in a college, he would have contented himself with expounding the metres of Pindar, and mixing argument with his port in the common room ; and that if Boston had abounded with men of letters, he would never have ventured to come forth, from his printing-house ; or been driven back to it, at any rate, by the sneers of the critics, after the first...
Página 2 - ... is satisfied with the frivolous praise of elegance or vivacity. We are disposed to ascribe so much power to these obstructions to intellectual originality, that we cannot help fancying, that if Franklin had been bred in a college, he would have contented himself with expounding the...
Página 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, "and also an act entitled " An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such books, during the time therein mentioned...
Página 2 - Franklin had been bred in a college, he would have contented himself with expounding the meters of Pindar, and mixing argument with his port in the common room; and that if Boston had abounded with men of letters, he would never have ventured to come forth from his printing-house, or been driven back to it, at any rate, by the sneers of the critics, after the first publication of his essays in the
Página 29 - ... salutary, it is founded on those principles of our nature which have forced themselves upon general observation, in consequence of the experience of ages.
Página 2 - ... President of the United States, do hereby declare that fact, and that the restrictions imposed by the said act of Congress shall from the date hereof cease and be discontinued in relation to the said Province of New Brunswick. Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 4th day of July, AD 1818, and in the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States. JAMES MONROE. By the President: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION....
Página 22 - Demosthenes, the sweet modulations of Anacreon, or the sublime descriptions of the bard of Ilion, read by a Greek even of the present times. It is by associating this pronunciation with the happy rhythm of the ancient Greeks, that one can conceive how an orator .could captivate an audience by merely reading his productions.
Página 33 - It is of importance to make a just estimate between a sagacity in the art of rejection, and *" a proficiency in what is commonly called reasoning, or the faculty of stating arguments and drawing conclusions, which is no mark of an en * Dugald Stewart.
Página 2 - ... encouragement of learn" ing by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors " and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ; " and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving " and etching historical and other prints.

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