An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Amherst College: August 25, 1835, Volume 15, Issue 4 |
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... institution , who , agreeably to academical usage , on the eve of their departure from a spot endeared to them , by all the pleasant associations of collegiate life , are desirous , by one more act of literary communion , to strengthen ...
... institution , who , agreeably to academical usage , on the eve of their departure from a spot endeared to them , by all the pleasant associations of collegiate life , are desirous , by one more act of literary communion , to strengthen ...
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... institutions of the same general character , in other parts of the United States . The greater portion of them are in the infancy of their exist- ence and usefulness , but some of them compare advantageously with our New England ...
... institutions of the same general character , in other parts of the United States . The greater portion of them are in the infancy of their exist- ence and usefulness , but some of them compare advantageously with our New England ...
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... institutions for education abound , associations for the diffusion of knowledge flourish , and literature and science , in almost every form , are daily rendered more cheap and accessible . There is in fact no country in Europe , from ...
... institutions for education abound , associations for the diffusion of knowledge flourish , and literature and science , in almost every form , are daily rendered more cheap and accessible . There is in fact no country in Europe , from ...
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... institutions which keep the mass of the people ignorant . A nation is numerically reckoned at its millions of souls . But they are not souls ; the greater part are but bodies . God has given them souls , but man has done all but ...
... institutions which keep the mass of the people ignorant . A nation is numerically reckoned at its millions of souls . But they are not souls ; the greater part are but bodies . God has given them souls , but man has done all but ...
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... institution has set before the citizens of the state , such a survey of its territory , —such an inventory of its natural wealth , -such a catalogue of its pro- ductions in the animal , the vegetable , and still more in the mineral ...
... institution has set before the citizens of the state , such a survey of its territory , —such an inventory of its natural wealth , -such a catalogue of its pro- ductions in the animal , the vegetable , and still more in the mineral ...
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Page 25 - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts, Where I shall reign with God.
Page 9 - Schoolmen; who were generally of the contrary part, and whose writings were altogether in a different style and form; taking liberty to coin and frame new terms of art to express their own sense, and to avoid circuit of speech, without regard to the pureness, pleasantness, and (as I may call it) lawfulness of the phrase or word.
Page 26 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 8 - ... enforced to awake all antiquity, and to call former times to his succors to make a party against the present time; so that the ancient authors, both in divinity and in humanity, which had long time slept in libraries, began generally to be read and revolved.
Page 25 - ... to his friends for publication. The day, at last, has come, on which it is to be ushered into the world. It is the twenty-fourth of May, 1543. On that day, — the effect, no doubt, of the intense excitement of his mind, operating upon an exhausted frame, — an effusion of blood brings him to the gates of the grave. His last hour has come ; he lies stretched upon the couch, from which he will never rise, in his apartment at the Canonry at Frauenberg, in East Prussia.
Page 25 - ... the first printed copy of his immortal treatise. He knows that in that book he contradicts all that had ever been distinctly taught by former philosophers ; he knows that he has rebelled against the sway of Ptolemy, which the scientific world had acknowledged for a thousand years ; he knows that the popular mind will be shocked by his innovations ; he knows that the attempt will be made to press even religion into the service against him ; but he knows that his book is true. He is dying, but...
Page 25 - ... astronomical instruments; and around him are gathered his sorrowing disciples. The door of the apartment opens; the eye of the departing sage is turned to see who enters: it is a friend, who brings him the first printed copy of his immortal treatise. He knows that in that book he contradicts all that had ever been distinctly taught by former philosophers; he knows that he has -rebelled against the sway of Ptolemy, which the scientific world had acknowledged for a thousand years; he knows that...
Page 8 - Martin Luther, conducted (no doubt) by an higher Providence, but in discourse of reason, finding what a province he had undertaken against the bishop of Rome and the degenerate traditions of the church...
Page 9 - ... travail in the languages original, wherein those authors did write, for the better understanding of those authors, and the better advantage of pressing and applying their words. And thereof grew again a delight in their manner of style and phrase, and an admiration of that kind of writing ; which was...
Page 9 - Execrabilis ista turba, quae non novit legem^] for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety of discourse, as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort.