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... beauty and worth ; - not for economy , which degrades them , but not over - intellectually , that is , not to ecstasy , en- trancing the man , but redounding to his beauty and glory . In the sketches which I have to offer I shall not be ...
... beauty and worth ; - not for economy , which degrades them , but not over - intellectually , that is , not to ecstasy , en- trancing the man , but redounding to his beauty and glory . In the sketches which I have to offer I shall not be ...
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... beauty of character and manners ; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection , inspiring as it does that loyalty and worship so es- sential to the finish of character , certainly , if cul- ture , if laws , if ...
... beauty of character and manners ; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection , inspiring as it does that loyalty and worship so es- sential to the finish of character , certainly , if cul- ture , if laws , if ...
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... beauty of animals and the laws of their nature , whom the mystery of botany allures , and the mineral laws ; who see general ef- fects and are not too learned to love the Imagi- nation , the power and the spirits of Solitude ; — men who ...
... beauty of animals and the laws of their nature , whom the mystery of botany allures , and the mineral laws ; who see general ef- fects and are not too learned to love the Imagi- nation , the power and the spirits of Solitude ; — men who ...
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... Beauty is health and Virtue is health . The petty arts which we blame in the half - great seem as odious to them also ; the resources of weakness and despair . And the manners betray the like puny constitu- tion . Temperament is fortune ...
... Beauty is health and Virtue is health . The petty arts which we blame in the half - great seem as odious to them also ; the resources of weakness and despair . And the manners betray the like puny constitu- tion . Temperament is fortune ...
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... Beauty and Meanness , and noble sentiment is the highest form of Beauty . He is beautiful in face , in port , in manners , who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself . Is there any parchment or any ...
... Beauty and Meanness , and noble sentiment is the highest form of Beauty . He is beautiful in face , in port , in manners , who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself . Is there any parchment or any ...
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Page 96 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 98 - Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Page 230 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 142 - ... lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Page 449 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them." "The locust z-ing." "Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." "Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Page 444 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before ; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Page 151 - A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it ; an automaton, a machine, can be made to keep a school so. It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor ; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one : say rather, the whole...
Page 373 - England, and marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity. I have found that I could only bring you this portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place.
Page 336 - I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too.
Page 352 - If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.