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... Ancient Theory of Education . - Theory of the Middle Ages . - Modern English Theory . — Individual Examples . — Eminent Writers who decry Oratorical Study • PAGE 67 • 83 LECTURE VII . Study of Literature for Clerical Discipline ...
... Ancient Theory of Education . - Theory of the Middle Ages . - Modern English Theory . — Individual Examples . — Eminent Writers who decry Oratorical Study • PAGE 67 • 83 LECTURE VII . Study of Literature for Clerical Discipline ...
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... Ancient Literature Extant : its Representative Relation to the Oriental Mind . - Oriental Races not Effete . - The Bible the Regenerative Power in the Revival of the Oriental Mind . · • 224 LECTURE XVI . Study of the Bible as a Literary ...
... Ancient Literature Extant : its Representative Relation to the Oriental Mind . - Oriental Races not Effete . - The Bible the Regenerative Power in the Revival of the Oriental Mind . · • 224 LECTURE XVI . Study of the Bible as a Literary ...
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... ancient university . But scarcely could a more perilous position be accepted by a man , who , like a clergyman , looks forward to a practical profession as the work of his life . Whatever has been once crystallized and labeled in our ...
... ancient university . But scarcely could a more perilous position be accepted by a man , who , like a clergyman , looks forward to a practical profession as the work of his life . Whatever has been once crystallized and labeled in our ...
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... ancient ruts of ministration through fear of ministering to unnatural excitements . We had better do some things wrong than to do nothing . 9. An educated ministry needs to consider the study of men for rhetorical culture by the side of ...
... ancient ruts of ministration through fear of ministering to unnatural excitements . We had better do some things wrong than to do nothing . 9. An educated ministry needs to consider the study of men for rhetorical culture by the side of ...
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... ancient poetry , except the Greek drama and the poetry of the Hebrews : hence the English aristocracy intui- tively exalt Homer in their estimate of libraries . Eng- lish noblemen translate Homer , and write laudatory criticisms upon ...
... ancient poetry , except the Greek drama and the poetry of the Hebrews : hence the English aristocracy intui- tively exalt Homer in their estimate of libraries . Eng- lish noblemen translate Homer , and write laudatory criticisms upon ...
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Page 241 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 165 - Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookerybook? Something new, something that you did not know before, in every paragraph. But would you therefore put the wretched cookerybook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is power, that is, exercise and expansion to your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where...
Page 241 - ... minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with classical literature, he was a Hebrew in soul; and all things tended in him towards the sublime.