Lectures on Education

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Ide & Dutton, 1855 - 338 pagina's
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Pagina 68 - I AM the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage.
Pagina 226 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Pagina 113 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Pagina 32 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Pagina 309 - Withhold not correction from the child : for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Pagina 90 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Pagina 284 - If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before...
Pagina 151 - Yes, we are all there, — from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf...
Pagina 113 - Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart.
Pagina 56 - Finally, education, alone, can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

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