Reflections on the Character and Objects of All Science and Literature, and on the Relative Excellence and Value of Religious and Secular Education, and of Sacred and Classical Literature: In Two Addresses and an Oration with Additions and ImprovementsH. Howe, 1831 - 201 sayfa |
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Sayfa 26 - judgment is, that without the Reformation, the revival of learning, which had commenced, would have terminated as all others had, in public ostentation, princely patronage, and the dazzling homage of Genius and Taste, still intent " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride, " With incense, kindled at the Muse's flame.
Sayfa 43 - I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in a clear day; and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation and I will make it, as the mourning of an only son.
Sayfa 85 - the Scriptures contain independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass, from all other books, that were ever composed, in any age, or in any idiom.
Sayfa 151 - and ardent. And what is our country ? It is not the East, with her hills and her vallies, with her countless sails, and the rocky ramparts of her shores. It is not the North, with her thousand villages and her giant canal, with her frontiers of the Lake and the ocean. It is not the West, with her
Sayfa 155 - praise bestowed by Pope on Lord Roscommon. " To him, the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every Author's merit, but his own." It is remarkable how the translators have been influenced not only by the Spirit of the Scriptures, which pervades the whole work, but by their indestructible metre, a metre the more curious and surprising, because
Sayfa 94 - the common property of all; that even children may profit by them, since they are so simple and plain, that the way-faring man, though a fool, shall not err therein. Why then do you not give them this lamp of life, as well as the lamp of knowledge, to guide them daily, with harmonious
Sayfa 162 - envied not their fame; With noble reverence spoke of Greece and Rome, And scorned to tear the laurel from their tomb." Yet even Lloyd is represented by the Poet as saying " And Shakspeare's muse aspires Beyond the reach of Greece: with native fires Mounting aloft, he wings his daring flight, While Sophocles below stands trembling
Sayfa 106 - To civilize the rude unpolished world, And lay it under the restraint of laws; To make man mild and sociable to man ; To cultivate the wild licentious savage With wisdom, discipline and liberal arts; Th
Sayfa 125 - un si bello in tante altre persone; Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa." The mould is indeed broken; since never again shall the sacred legislator, prophet and apostle, give us a divine standard of Duty and Usefulness, of thought and reasoning, of eloquence, poetry, taste, and style. Let us then prize the Scriptures, not merely as the richest
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