Three Lectures on Liberal EducationFolsom. Wells, and Thurston, printers, 1836 - 72 pages |
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Page 37 - A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Page 56 - If I have done the public any service, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought.
Page 8 - That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and king Edward, Greek.
Page 55 - ... capitalist of Boston. The donation was made and carried into effect in his lifetime ; but the name was reserved. After his decease it was declared. I had not the honor of a personal acquaintance, though I was a minister and native of the town (not then a city), and was acquainted with his connections. But his person was well known, and his character, as very benevolent in himself, and active to call forth the like spirit in others. Indeed, in this spirit his townsmen have always been open-hearted...
Page 26 - Of being dare contend, — say, can a soul Of such extensive, deep, tremendous powers, Enlarging still, be but a finer breath Of spirits dancing through their tubes awhile, And then for ever lost in vacant air...
Page 59 - ... and never scrupled to seize them as contraband goods. When he withdrew from College, he had a large and valuable collection of this species of literature. In one of the notes to his Three Lectures he says : ' I have on hand a goodly number of these confiscated wares, full of manuscript innotations, which I seized in the way of duty, and would now restore to the owners on demand, without their proving property or paying charges.
Page 1 - Professor. 1. It shall be the duty of the Professor to cultivate and promote the knowledge of the Greek Language and of Greek Literature.
Page 2 - He shall give publick and private lectures, as the corporation may determine, on the genius, structure, characteristic^ and excellencies of the Greek language, in the purest age of the language, and in the period succeeding, not neglecting the state of it in modern times : on the principal Greek authors, taking notice of the Greek fathers and ecclesiastical writers ; and on the interpretation of the Septuagint Version, and of the Greek New Testament, especially so far as such interpretation may be...
Page 2 - In these exercises it will be his duty to- explain and illustrate the work under consideration ; to observe the sentiments, spirit, style, and general execution ; the imagery and rhetorical beauties ; that the University may send out alumni, who possess a discriminating knowledge of the renowned productions of Grecian authors, and the powers of the Grecian language.
Page 61 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners...