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Side xiv
... gentlemen , " still to make them some- thing or other is its great object , and not simply to pro- tect the interests and advance the dominion of Science . If , then , this may be taken for granted , as I think it may , the only point ...
... gentlemen , " still to make them some- thing or other is its great object , and not simply to pro- tect the interests and advance the dominion of Science . If , then , this may be taken for granted , as I think it may , the only point ...
Side xvi
... gentlemen ; -these can be , and are , acquired in various other ways , by good society , by foreign travel , by the ... gentleman are included in it . Nor need we be ashamed that they should be , since the poet long ago wrote , that ...
... gentlemen ; -these can be , and are , acquired in various other ways , by good society , by foreign travel , by the ... gentleman are included in it . Nor need we be ashamed that they should be , since the poet long ago wrote , that ...
Side xxiii
... 124 VII . Knowledge VIEWED IN RELATION TO PROFESSIONAL SKILL . 151 VIII . KNOWLEDGE VIEWED IN RELATION TO RELIGIOUS DUTY 179 IX . DUTIES OF THE CHURCH towards Knowledge . • 212 DISCOURSE I. INTRODUCTORY . I. N addressing myself , Gentlemen.
... 124 VII . Knowledge VIEWED IN RELATION TO PROFESSIONAL SKILL . 151 VIII . KNOWLEDGE VIEWED IN RELATION TO RELIGIOUS DUTY 179 IX . DUTIES OF THE CHURCH towards Knowledge . • 212 DISCOURSE I. INTRODUCTORY . I. N addressing myself , Gentlemen.
Side xxiv
... Gentlemen , to the consideration of a question which has excited so much interest , and elicited so much discussion at the present day , as that of University Education , I feel some explanation is due from me for supposing , after such ...
... Gentlemen , to the consideration of a question which has excited so much interest , and elicited so much discussion at the present day , as that of University Education , I feel some explanation is due from me for supposing , after such ...
Side xxiv
... Gentlemen , were I supposed to have got up my opinions for the occasion . This , indeed , would have been no reflection on me personally , supposing I were persuaded of their truth , when at length addressing myself to the inquiry ; but ...
... Gentlemen , were I supposed to have got up my opinions for the occasion . This , indeed , would have been no reflection on me personally , supposing I were persuaded of their truth , when at length addressing myself to the inquiry ; but ...
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Side 178 - But a university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end ; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life.
Side 280 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Side 209 - He has his eyes on all his company ; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd ; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions or topics which may irritate ; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome.
Side 138 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Side 210 - From a longsighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend. He has too much good sense to be. affronted at insults, he is too well employed to remember injuries, and too indolent to 7* H bear malice.
Side 209 - ... while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not say out.
Side 209 - IT is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined, and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him ; and he concurs with their movements, rather than takes the initiative himself.
Side 257 - Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
Side 23 - ... the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible, is the religion of Protestants.
Side 159 - Can there be any thing more ridiculous, than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade...