 | Matthew Davenport Hill - Boys - 1822 - 264 pages
...unimpaired, something has been done to spare the future man many moments of painful retrospection. " Every person (says Gibbon) has two educations, one...from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself." * The latter of these is seldom begun till the former is ended; an earlier commencement... | |
 | John Shoveller - Classical education - 1824 - 202 pages
...feels he ought to be employed in finishing the edifice, already raised on a broad and solid foundation. Every person, says Gibbon, has two educations ; one...others, and one, more important, which he gives himself. If both of these could be in operation together, success would hardly be doubtful : but the latter... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...person ot mere worldly success, the man of money-bags and acres. CHAPTEE X. SELF-CULTURE. " Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself."—Gibbon. " These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together —manly... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...harvest of a still more valuable nature. Gibbon remarks " that every person has two educations—one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives to himself." One influence for a future harvest is supplied by a special element, and unless the germs... | |
 | George Moore - Mental discipline - 1868 - 456 pages
...motives than one's own disposition to undertake hard work. In short, as Gibbon observes, ' every person has two educations : one which he receives from others,...and one, more important, which he gives himself.' NOTE F, p. 333. 'The appearance of the Convuhionnairet in France, whose inhabitants, from the greater... | |
 | Children's literature, English - 1868 - 510 pages
...genins, and does its work, is generally the effect of self-culture. For as Gibbon says ' Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself ;' and Wordsworth tells us that, " Two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together —... | |
 | Ohio State Medical Society - Medicine - 1870 - 310 pages
...own house, that all the circuit might be completed. Gibbon says " every man has two educations—one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives to himself; " and Sir Walter Scotl- reiterated that " the best part of a man's education is that which... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 288 pages
...great thing of you. You were a youth, but now you are become a man.' ON SELF-EDUCATION. Every person has two educations — one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. "Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. '... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 pages
...power to win the crown is his. — ROGERS. " Le sentiment de nos forces les augmente." Every person has two educations, — one which he receives from...others, and one, more important, which he gives himself. — GIBBON. I remember when Mr. Locke (of Norbury Park) first came ovf r from Italy, and old Dr. Moore,... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1874 - 386 pages
...power to win the crown is his. — ROGERS. "Le sentiment de nos forces les augmente." Every person has two educations, — one which he receives from...others, and one, more important, which he gives himself. — GIBBON. [ remember when Mr. Locke (of Norbury Park) first came over from Italy, and old Dr. Moore,... | |
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Every person has two educations, — one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself. 
