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" And is then example nothing ? It is everything. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. "
The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 396
by Edmund Burke - 1839
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...you will inspire manliness in others. 1398 A. Branson Alcott: Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Nobility. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. 1399 Burke : Letters on a Re9icide Peace. Letter i. 1796. Example is more efficacious than precept....
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The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with ..., Volume 1

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - 362 pages
...and she will exalt thee. Example draws where precept fails ; And sermons are less read than tales. Example is the school of mankind ; and they will learn at no other. Examples preach to the eye, and leave a deeper impress than counsel addressed to the ear. As children...
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Moral Muscle, and how to Use it: A Brotherly Chat with Young Men

Frederick Anthony Atkins - 1890 - 102 pages
...almost call a fatal facility for becoming entangled in dangerous companionships. "Example," says Burke, "is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." How necessary, then, that the examples by which you are surrounded should be puie and good! You must...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 pages
...Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. P. 311. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. P- -mEarly and provident fear is the mother of safety. Speech on the Petition ff the I'nitnrinns. Vvl....
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Letters on a Regicide Peace: Letters I. and II.

Edmund Burke - 1893 - 224 pages
...that 20 disgraces civilized society and the human race. And is then example nothing? It is everything. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn...George the Third, for Francis the Second, and for the dignity, property, honour, virtue, and religion of England, of Germany, and of all nations. I know...
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The Normal Music Course in the Schoolroom: Being a Practical Exposition of ...

Frederic Allison Lyman - 1896 - 200 pages
...enter largely into this question, not superstition, presumption, or prejudice. CHAPTER IX. CONDUCTING. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. — BURKE. He is a good musician who understands the music without the score, and the score without...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

1896 - 1224 pages
...make it as clean aa yon can, And then I will let you a better." h. TENNYSON — By an Evolutionist. a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold, But o i. BURKE — Letter I. On a Regicide Peace. Vol.5. P. 331. Why doth one man's yawning make another...
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Catholic Reading Circle Review, Volume 10

1897 - 456 pages
...brain against that of others. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other. Never chide a child for its fault without leaving it the hope for improvement. The aim of education...
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An English Grammar: For the Use of Schools

James Mollison Milne - 1900 - 400 pages
...we cannot know each other's secret. — Emerson. 15. All that I am my mother made me. — Adams. 16. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. — Burke. 17. All types of all classes march through all fable. — Thackeray. 18. One should never...
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The Making of Character: Some Educational Aspects of Ethics

John MacCunn - 1900 - 246 pages
...shall fail, When truth embodied in a tale Shall enter in at lowly doors." l " Example," says Burke, " is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." 2 And the exaggeration — for exaggeration it is — may at least be pardoned. The facts are so strong....
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