En Avant, Messieurs!: Being a Tutor's Counsel to His PupilsJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1867 - 271 páginas |
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... field for observation rather than as a standard of faith . I remember - in connection with this subject - to have read not long ago a very instructive letter of the great German poet and philosopher , Goethe , dated from Naples , May 28 ...
... field for observation rather than as a standard of faith . I remember - in connection with this subject - to have read not long ago a very instructive letter of the great German poet and philosopher , Goethe , dated from Naples , May 28 ...
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... field ; but remember that the same shallow argument would abolish your profession altogether . This is , I know , one of the two poor arguments usually brought forward by a young officer against making a study of his profession ; the ...
... field ; but remember that the same shallow argument would abolish your profession altogether . This is , I know , one of the two poor arguments usually brought forward by a young officer against making a study of his profession ; the ...
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... field for distinction open to a young officer , the passports to distinction are languages and ap- plied mathematics . Of the value of the latter I have just spoken ; many who can't master mathe- matics often possess a singular facility ...
... field for distinction open to a young officer , the passports to distinction are languages and ap- plied mathematics . Of the value of the latter I have just spoken ; many who can't master mathe- matics often possess a singular facility ...
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... field , wherever it is possible to get a small camera , which is almost everywhere ; and if you can acquire half the skill in the use of the camera that many amateurs now possess , you will find there another great resource of personal ...
... field , wherever it is possible to get a small camera , which is almost everywhere ; and if you can acquire half the skill in the use of the camera that many amateurs now possess , you will find there another great resource of personal ...
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... field at a time , and , if a regimental officer , to one part of the field altogether . This rather improbable fact is curiously proved by an anecdote in the life of the great German historian Niebuhr : he was one day discussing with ...
... field at a time , and , if a regimental officer , to one part of the field altogether . This rather improbable fact is curiously proved by an anecdote in the life of the great German historian Niebuhr : he was one day discussing with ...
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Página 104 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 146 - And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Página 124 - My lords, we are called upon as members of this house, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such notions standing near the throne, polluting the ear of majesty. " That God and nature put into our hands...
Página 167 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 117 - their bluest veins to kiss' - the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross; and above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of...
Página 117 - ... delicate as ivory, — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all twined together into an endless network of buds and plumes ; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels, sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates,' their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves beside them, interrupted and dim, like the morning...
Página 104 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 122 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 188 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Página 116 - ... a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light ; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory...