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... existence of an upper class is not injurious , as long as it is dependent on merit . For so long it is provocation to the bold and generous . These distinctions exist , and they are deep , not to be talked or voted away . If the ...
... existence of an upper class is not injurious , as long as it is dependent on merit . For so long it is provocation to the bold and generous . These distinctions exist , and they are deep , not to be talked or voted away . If the ...
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... existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances . One trait more we must celebrate , the self- reliance which is the patent of royal natures . It is so prized a jewel that it is sure to be tested . The rules and discipline ...
... existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances . One trait more we must celebrate , the self- reliance which is the patent of royal natures . It is so prized a jewel that it is sure to be tested . The rules and discipline ...
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... , so , the reason we must give for the existence of the world is , that it is for the benefit of all being . - 1 Reprinted from the North American Review of April , 1866 . 1 - Morals implies freedom and will . The will con-
... , so , the reason we must give for the existence of the world is , that it is for the benefit of all being . - 1 Reprinted from the North American Review of April , 1866 . 1 - Morals implies freedom and will . The will con-
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... existence is victory . He defends himself against failure in his main design by mak- ing every inch of the road to it pleasant . There is no trifle , and no obscurity to him : he feels the im- mensity of the chain whose last link he ...
... existence is victory . He defends himself against failure in his main design by mak- ing every inch of the road to it pleasant . There is no trifle , and no obscurity to him : he feels the im- mensity of the chain whose last link he ...
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... existence is to serve ; and so with every portion of them . The truth takes flesh in forms that can express it ; and thus in history an idea always overhangs , like the moon , and rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the ...
... existence is to serve ; and so with every portion of them . The truth takes flesh in forms that can express it ; and thus in history an idea always overhangs , like the moon , and rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the ...
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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.