The Student, Volume 2Isaac Sharpless and Watson W. Dewees, 1882 |
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Page 140 - A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.
Page 140 - The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.
Page 72 - to contribute, but rather in the higher than in the lower stages of the work. One must be a somewhat reflective user of language to amend even here and there a point by grammatical reasons; and no one ever changed from a bad speaker to a good one by applying the rules of
Page 190 - The Verbalist. A manual devoted to brief discussions of the right and the wrong use of words, and to some other matters of interest to those who would speak and write with propriety, including a treatise on punctuation. By Alfred Ayres.
Page 381 - For their learning be liberal. Spare no cost, for by such parsimony all is lost that is saved ; but let it be useful knowledge, such as is consistent with truth and godliness, not cherishing a vain conversation or
Page 339 - in the secular period of his existence, he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that now he stands raised upon it as on a mountain-top,
Page 266 - While scientific education is yet inchoate and tentative, classical education is thoroughly well organized upon the practical experience of generations of teachers. So that given ample time for learning, and destination for ordinary life, or for a literary career, I do not think that a
Page 72 - That the leading object of the study of English grammar is to teach the correct use of English is, in my view, an error, and one which is gradually becoming removed, giving way to the sounder opinion that grammar is the reflective study of language.
Page 32 - and happily down the stream of time to eternity, By the most simple arithmetical sum, look at the result. If you send one person, only one, happily through each day, that is three hundred and sixty-five in the course of the year. And supposing you live forty years only