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... action , the mind , in proportion as it is invigorated and beauti- fied , gives strength and elegance to the body , and en- larges the sphere of action and enjoyment . These laws have been recognized and observed by the best educa- tors ...
... action , the mind , in proportion as it is invigorated and beauti- fied , gives strength and elegance to the body , and en- larges the sphere of action and enjoyment . These laws have been recognized and observed by the best educa- tors ...
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... action , but that a firm basis be laid in a sound body for the exercise of manly vir- tues . Without physical vigor , the feeble flickerings of the mind are only " a gilded halo hovering round decay . " The national games described in ...
... action , but that a firm basis be laid in a sound body for the exercise of manly vir- tues . Without physical vigor , the feeble flickerings of the mind are only " a gilded halo hovering round decay . " The national games described in ...
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... action by this luminary , and transfigured by its beams , the mind goes forth in action like the son of Tydeus , with glory blazing round it , kindling aston- ishment and emulous delight . The grand object of schooling is never attained ...
... action by this luminary , and transfigured by its beams , the mind goes forth in action like the son of Tydeus , with glory blazing round it , kindling aston- ishment and emulous delight . The grand object of schooling is never attained ...
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... action cannot be intense unless all the faculties are made to play within a narrow range . The electric fluid is as impotent as the unbounded air it sleeps in , until concentrated in a thunder - cloud . Nature has closely confined the ...
... action cannot be intense unless all the faculties are made to play within a narrow range . The electric fluid is as impotent as the unbounded air it sleeps in , until concentrated in a thunder - cloud . Nature has closely confined the ...
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... actions is most safely deposited in the universal remem- brance of mankind . We know , that if we could cause this structure to ascend , not only till it reached the skies , but till it pierced them , its broad surfaces could still con ...
... actions is most safely deposited in the universal remem- brance of mankind . We know , that if we could cause this structure to ascend , not only till it reached the skies , but till it pierced them , its broad surfaces could still con ...
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Page 202 - ... it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice.
Page 29 - I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
Page 23 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.
Page 383 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings': at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthron'd in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Page 32 - I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. /VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country.
Page 32 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...
Page 32 - You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Page 272 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 107 - And it shall be the duty of the General Assembly as soon as may be to provide effectual means for the improvement and permanent security of the funds of said University.