Some Thoughts Concerning EducationAt the University Press, 1895 - 240 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 21 - ,And the great Principle and Foundation of all Virtue and / Worth is plac'd in this: That a Man is able to deny himself his own Desires, cross his own Inclinations, and purely follow what Reason directs as best, tho' the Appetite lean the other Way. 1
الصفحة 128 - alone which is thought on, when People talk of Education, makes it the greater Paradox. When I consider, what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many Years are spent in it, and what a Noise and Business it makes to no Purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking that the Parents of
الصفحة 138 - more ridiculous, than that a Father should waste his own Money and his Son's Time in setting him to learn the Roman Language, when at the same Time he designs him for a Trade, wherein he having no use of Latin, fails not to forget that little which he brought from School, and
الصفحة 235 - those kind of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out and at last there is nothing to be seen. Thus the ideas as well as the children of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching, where though the brass and marble remain
الصفحة 235 - There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even those which are struck deepest and in minds the most retentive, so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection in those kind of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out and at last there
الصفحة 29 - that knows not how to resist the Importunity of present Pleasure or Pain, for the sake of what Reason tells him is fit to be done, wants the true Principle of Virtue and Industry, and is in danger never to be good for any Thing. This Temper therefore, so contrary to unguided Nature, is
الصفحة 145 - Rules of Grammar. Languages were made not by Rules or Art, but by Accident, and the common Use of the People. And he that will speak them well, has no other Rule but that; nor any thing to trust to, but his Memory, and the Habit of speaking after the Fashion learned from those,
الصفحة 165 - wherein most Care should be taken to polish and perfect his Style. To speak or write better Latin than English, may make a Man be talk'd of, but he would find it more to his Purpose to express himself well in his own Tongue, that he uses every Moment, than to have the vain
الصفحة 129 - good, and gently correct and weed out any bad Inclinations, and settle in him good Habits. This is the main Point, and this being provided for, Learning may be had into the Bargain, and that, as I think, at a very easy rate, by Methods that may be thought on.
الصفحة 145 - of, his Tongue of Course, without Thought of Rule or Grammar, falls into the proper Expression and Idiom of that Language, does not speak it well, nor is Master of it. And I would fain have any one name to me that Tongue, that any one can learn, or speak as he should do, by the