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... mind , and the philosophy of language , are all good and valuable in their place ; but a student may read and repeat them with but little more effect on his own habits of speak- ing or power to write well , than he would receive from an ...
... mind , and the philosophy of language , are all good and valuable in their place ; but a student may read and repeat them with but little more effect on his own habits of speak- ing or power to write well , than he would receive from an ...
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... mind , that have been reach- ed and reduced to a system by the most thorough re- search , which can be mastered and employed only as the result of diligent effort . Indeed it has been a favorite opinion of the most profound adepts in ...
... mind , that have been reach- ed and reduced to a system by the most thorough re- search , which can be mastered and employed only as the result of diligent effort . Indeed it has been a favorite opinion of the most profound adepts in ...
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... minds by motions of the limbs , the eyes , and the countenance , has been so perfected as to become a good substitute for language in the transac- tion of important business . Navigators are guided into proper channels , and warned ...
... minds by motions of the limbs , the eyes , and the countenance , has been so perfected as to become a good substitute for language in the transac- tion of important business . Navigators are guided into proper channels , and warned ...
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... mind avail him if speech is denied ! " * Words are the signs of thought . We learn the thoughts of others by words . We store up thoughts by the memory of words , or by writing them , to be compared , analyzed , and classified at our ...
... mind avail him if speech is denied ! " * Words are the signs of thought . We learn the thoughts of others by words . We store up thoughts by the memory of words , or by writing them , to be compared , analyzed , and classified at our ...
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... mind that it may be doubted whether natural language itself is not rendered by it more efficient than it possibly could have been with- out the cultivation secured by the use of words . The paintings and hieroglyphics of savages are ...
... mind that it may be doubted whether natural language itself is not rendered by it more efficient than it possibly could have been with- out the cultivation secured by the use of words . The paintings and hieroglyphics of savages are ...
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Page 46 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 31 - And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country ; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat : and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father...
Page 298 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 295 - THERE is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!
Page 210 - God's name, let it go : I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown, My...
Page 293 - I will bless the Lord at all times : His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 0 magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
Page 165 - Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
Page 294 - THOU art, O God ! the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Page 325 - Rufus; the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty Kings; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 80 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.