The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 246 |
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THER HERE is some risk that we may treat education as St. Paul was treated by the natives at Malta , who began by supposing him to be a criminal and then changed their minds and said that he was a god . So , after centuries of neglect ...
THER HERE is some risk that we may treat education as St. Paul was treated by the natives at Malta , who began by supposing him to be a criminal and then changed their minds and said that he was a god . So , after centuries of neglect ...
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It may be doubted whether the average pupil is ripe for the transference so young , and whether his education will cease to be primary , because from the age of 11 it is called secondary : and psychologists change their minds so often ...
It may be doubted whether the average pupil is ripe for the transference so young , and whether his education will cease to be primary , because from the age of 11 it is called secondary : and psychologists change their minds so often ...
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These require to meet in the human mind what we may call the ferments of experience , without which they pass through it or remain lodged within it unabsorbed and ineffective . They need , for their realisation , as Proust says ...
These require to meet in the human mind what we may call the ferments of experience , without which they pass through it or remain lodged within it unabsorbed and ineffective . They need , for their realisation , as Proust says ...
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But , in fact , it is not his school , his teachers , himself , that he is blaming the guilt lies at the door of a system , which tried to teach him literature and history before his mind was ripe fully to understand them , and imposed ...
But , in fact , it is not his school , his teachers , himself , that he is blaming the guilt lies at the door of a system , which tried to teach him literature and history before his mind was ripe fully to understand them , and imposed ...
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... democracy that aims at the attainment of a culture in mere material things and the democracy of the high - schools , which strives to unite plain customs and a simple , frugal life with a genuine culture of the mind and heart .
... democracy that aims at the attainment of a culture in mere material things and the democracy of the high - schools , which strives to unite plain customs and a simple , frugal life with a genuine culture of the mind and heart .
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Page 65 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was -not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 9 - Newman) how differently young and old are affected by the words of some classic author, such as Homer or Horace. Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer might supply, which he gets by heart and thinks very fine, and imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his own flowing versification...
Page 309 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Page 31 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Page 376 - And as abruptly and brokenly as sometimes his sentences would fall from him about divine things, it is well known they were often as texts to many fairer declarations.
Page 376 - But above all he excelled in prayer. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others with consolation. The most awful, living, reverent frame I ever felt or beheld, I must say, was his in prayer.
Page 398 - The Commons of England assembled in Parliament, finding by too long experience that the House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the people of England to be continued, have thought fit to ordain and enact, and be it ordained and enacted by this present Parliament, and by the authority of the same, that from henceforth the House of Lords in Parliament shall be and is hereby wholly abolished and taken away; and that the Lords shall not from henceforth meet or sit in the said House called the Lords...
Page 318 - Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, 95 Here to return, and die at home at last.
Page 240 - Behind the Customs barriers new local industries were started, with no real economic foundation, which could only be kept alive in the face of competition by raising the barriers higher still. Railway rates, dictated by political considerations, have made transit and freights difficult and costly. Prices have risen, artificial dearness has been created. Production as a whole has been diminished. Credit has contracted and currencies have depreciated.
Page 68 - ... though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not ! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair.