Harvard Lectures on the Revival of LearningCambridge University Press, 1905 - 212 pàgines |
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Pàgina xvi - After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Pàgina 85 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive-grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing ; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream.
Pàgina xvi - Library: after him another gave 300. 1. others after them cast in more, and the publique hand of the State added the rest: the Colledge was, by common consent, appointed to be at Cambridge, (a place very pleasant and accommodate) and is called (according to the name of the first founder) Harvard Colledge.
Pàgina 204 - From happy homes and toils, the fruitful nest Of those half-virtues which the world calls best, Into War's tumult rude ; But rather far that stern device The sponsors chose that round thy cradle stood In the dim, unventured wood, The VERITAS that lurks beneath The letter's unprolific sheath...
Pàgina 54 - Rhenumque bibunt. venient annis saecula seris, quibus Oceanus vincula rerum laxet et ingens pateat tellus Tethysque novos detegat orbes nee sit terris ultima Thule.
Pàgina xvi - Work; it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentleman and a lover of Learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his Estate (it being in all about 1700.£) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and all his Library: after him another gave 300£.
Pàgina 78 - I have said that ability to write Latin verse is one of the essential marks of an educated person. I wish now to indicate a second, which is of at least equal importance, namely, familiarity with the language and literature of Greece.
Pàgina 200 - Margaret', he was pleased to say, ' but, if you woulde drink , deeplie of ' the Well-springs of Wisdom, applie to ' Greek. The Latins have onlie shallow ' Rivulets ; the Greeks, copious Rivers, ' running over Sands of Gold. Read Plato ; ' he wrote on Marble, with a Diamond ; ' but above alle, read the New Testament. ' 'Tis the Key to the Kingdom of Heaven '. To Mr.
Pàgina 199 - I have found in England. ..so much learning and culture, and that of no common kind, but recondite, exact and ancient, Latin and Greek, that I now hardly want to go to Italy, except to see it. When I listen to my friend Colet, I can fancy I am listening to Plato himself. Who can fail to admire Grocyn, with all his encyclopaedic erudition ? Can anything be more acute, more profound, more refined, than the judgement of Linacre? Has nature ever moulded anything gentler, pleasanter, or happier, than...
Pàgina 60 - Greek language: it is still worse that this same noble tongue, once well nigh the daily speech of our race, as familiar as the Latin language itself, is on the point of perishing even amongst its own sons, and to us Italians is already utterly lost, unless we except one or two who in our time are tardily endeavouring to rescue something— if it be only a mere echo of it— from oblivion.