On the Classical Tongues and the Advantages of Their Study: An Inaugural Discourse, Pronounced Before the Governor and Legislature of South Carolina, by Request of the Trustees of the South Carolina College, December 12, 1835, in the Senate Chamber;A.S. Johnston., 1836 - 23 pagine |
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Pagina 11
... thing valuable in taste . " They are characterized by greater purity and delicacy , by an exact simplicity of imitation , and correctness and force of em bellishment . They exhibit the play of sensibilities " Active and strong , and ...
... thing valuable in taste . " They are characterized by greater purity and delicacy , by an exact simplicity of imitation , and correctness and force of em bellishment . They exhibit the play of sensibilities " Active and strong , and ...
Pagina 18
... things , and the soul as a bright emanation from above . Though in its morality rather ascetic , it originated and discover- ed many noble principles . Third , the Eleatic School , and its varieties ; in- tellectual and imaginary ...
... things , and the soul as a bright emanation from above . Though in its morality rather ascetic , it originated and discover- ed many noble principles . Third , the Eleatic School , and its varieties ; in- tellectual and imaginary ...
Pagina 4
... thing as absolute perfection in the matter , that all excellence is relative , and that the highest recommendation of any plan is that it is at once practicable and adjusted to the wants and condition of those for whom it is provided ...
... thing as absolute perfection in the matter , that all excellence is relative , and that the highest recommendation of any plan is that it is at once practicable and adjusted to the wants and condition of those for whom it is provided ...
Pagina 7
... thing . 2. In the next place it is equally important that the whole course of studies be rigidly exacted of every student . Their value as a discipline depends alto- gether upon their being studied , and every college is defective in ...
... thing . 2. In the next place it is equally important that the whole course of studies be rigidly exacted of every student . Their value as a discipline depends alto- gether upon their being studied , and every college is defective in ...
Pagina 9
... things . In the technical language of the civil law , it was , in like manner , applied to both . In the former signification , ( convertible with collegium , ) it denoted a plurality of persons associated for a con- tinued purpose ...
... things . In the technical language of the civil law , it was , in like manner , applied to both . In the former signification , ( convertible with collegium , ) it denoted a plurality of persons associated for a con- tinued purpose ...
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afterwards ancient become bosom Caldwell character church circumstances commenced consequence continue course Davidson county degree direction discipline duties efforts Eleatic School elevated Elizabethtown excellence exertion faculties feelings felt friends genius GRANDMOTHER Greek Guilford county habits happiness heart honor hope human importance impressions individual influence institutions instruction intellectual interest JOHN POOL knowledge labors language Latin Latin language learning liberal education live look manner means ment mental miles mind moral nature never North Carolina object occasion once opinion passed peculiar perfect Philosophy Plato pleasure present Princeton principles pursuits Raleigh religion religious respect Roanoke Island Rutherford counties schools sentiment society South Carolina College spirit square miles success taste teachers thing thought tion trained true Trustees truth University virtue Warrenton whole wholly WILLIAM GASTON Wilmington young youth
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Pagina 10 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Pagina 25 - ... palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Pagina 14 - ... if any man think philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied. And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
Pagina 19 - ... abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good...
Pagina 29 - The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders.
Pagina 29 - They are more disposed to examine, and more capable of seeing through the interested complaints of faction and sedition, and they are, upon that account, less apt to be misled into any wanton or unnecessary opposition to the measures of government.
Pagina 29 - Even though the martial spirit of the people were of no use towards the defence of the society, yet to prevent that sort of mental mutilation, deformity, and wretchedness, which cowardice necessarily involves in it, from spreading themselves through the great body of the people, would still deserve the most serious attention of government...
Pagina 28 - But a coward, a man incapable either of defending or of revenging himself, evidently wants one of the most essential parts of the character of a man. He is as much mutilated and deformed in his mind as another is in his body, who is either deprived of some of its most essential members, or has lost the use of them.
Pagina 25 - What Constitutes a State? WHAT constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate — Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned — Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride — Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high-minded men...
Pagina 29 - In free countries, where the safety of government depends very much upon the favourable judgment which the people may form of its conduct, it must surely be of the highest importance that they should not be disposed to judge rashly or capriciously concerning it.