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... knowledge , the benefits of prayer and scriptural study , these are the topics enforced and illus- trated , chiefly by anecdote and quotation , in the following pages . vi PREFACE . .. A recent essayist , speaking of. CHAPTER.
... knowledge , the benefits of prayer and scriptural study , these are the topics enforced and illus- trated , chiefly by anecdote and quotation , in the following pages . vi PREFACE . .. A recent essayist , speaking of. CHAPTER.
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... knowledge - Its value - The student daunted by no obstacles - Erasmus Schaeffer -Dr . Johnson - Men of Letters - Luther as a student - The story of a book - Macaulay - Canova , the Italian sculptor - The ends of life - What these should ...
... knowledge - Its value - The student daunted by no obstacles - Erasmus Schaeffer -Dr . Johnson - Men of Letters - Luther as a student - The story of a book - Macaulay - Canova , the Italian sculptor - The ends of life - What these should ...
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... , and after much scolding and beating , left the school without having learned anything more than reading , writing , and the catechism . " I was then sent into the fields to tend 24 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE . cows , where I.
... , and after much scolding and beating , left the school without having learned anything more than reading , writing , and the catechism . " I was then sent into the fields to tend 24 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE . cows , where I.
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... KNOWLEDGE . cows , where I herded with boys of my own age , and learned to be as idle and clownish as they , careless of everything except my daily task . The greater part of what I had learned was quite forgotten , and as I grew older ...
... KNOWLEDGE . cows , where I herded with boys of my own age , and learned to be as idle and clownish as they , careless of everything except my daily task . The greater part of what I had learned was quite forgotten , and as I grew older ...
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... now knew enough to make me earnestly desirous of knowing more " -for such , we may remark , is the peculiar property of knowledge ; it stimulates while it strengthens the mind , and 26 LUDWIG STILL ADVANCES . " " he who once.
... now knew enough to make me earnestly desirous of knowing more " -for such , we may remark , is the peculiar property of knowledge ; it stimulates while it strengthens the mind , and 26 LUDWIG STILL ADVANCES . " " he who once.
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Page 97 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 50 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 97 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. — • There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 154 - THERE is a book, who runs may read, Which heavenly truth imparts, And all the lore its scholars need, Pure eyes and Christian hearts. The works of God above, below, Within us and around, Are pages in that book, to show How God Himself is found.
Page 79 - He would be Hastings of Daylesford. This purpose, formed in infancy and poverty, grew stronger as his intellect expanded and as his fortune rose. He pursued his plan with that calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst all the cares of war, finance, and legislation, still pointed to Daylesford. And when his long public life, so singularly chequered with good and evil,...
Page 32 - ... length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having a candle by me.
Page 151 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 142 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 50 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 14 - I inquired after my box, and what I was pleased to call my treasure. The box was produced, and opened; - but, reader, feel for me...