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Términos y frases comunes
allotted arbitraries arbitrarily expressed words Art is gain'd-her ATHEISM Extract awhile begin a word blaspheme blk f mrbl bottom BOUNDBY WESTLEYS &CO brevity comma common alphabet common writing commonplace words curve deciphering double consonant characters edk-s EXPEDITE LONGHAND WRITER EXPOSITION OF LESSON f th final letter gain'd-her crown give given HARK humn sol initial vowel joined king hath set klrs learned on Plate learner legible lifting the pen likewise little heavier memory method mode of spelling nant nouns ntions and languages occurs omitted participles particular patient practice teach perspicuity PRACTICAL STENOGRAPHER prepositions and terminations prepositions or terminations quick speaker regular verbs rejected remarked sgnl short Shorthand SHORTHAND'S Art skkr small hook stand Stenography stnd student syllables SYSTEM III tedious th brst th flsfr tion trope trouble of committing verbs w-out WESTLEYS &CO LONDON written
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Página 41 - Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, the sculptor only finds it.
Página 41 - Education. 1 consider a human soul, without education, like marble in the quarry; which shows none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, •spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it.
Página 34 - ... is equally abstracted from the object of inquiry ; but, perhaps if it be detained by occupations less pleasing, it returns again to study with greater alacrity than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures, and surfeited with intemperance of application. He that will not suffer himself to be discouraged by fancied impossibilities, may sometimes find his abilities invigorated by the necessity of exerting them in short intervals, as the force of a. current is increased by the contraction of its...
Página 33 - ... and discover how much more is to be hoped from frequency and perseverance, than from violent efforts and sudden desires; efforts which are soon remitted when they encounter difficulty, and desires, which, if they are indulged too often, will shake off the authority of reason, and range capriciously from one object to another. The disposition to defer every important design to a time of leisure, and a state of settled uniformity, proceeds generally from a false estimate of the human powers.
Página 41 - I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon , a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make -their appearance.
Página 41 - The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have dis-interred, and have brought to light.
Página 33 - ... business, and exclude pleasure, and to devote their days and nights to a particular attention. But all common degrees of excellence are attainable at a lower price ; he that should steadily...
Página 33 - ... desires, which if they are indulged too often, will shake off the authority of reason, and range capriciously from one object to another. The disposition to defer every important design to a time of leisure, and a state of settled uniformity, proceeds generally from a false estimate of the human powers. If we except those gigantic and stupendous intelligences who are said to grasp a system by intuition, and bound forward from one series of conclusions to another, without regular steps through...
Página 41 - Very few are such absolute idiots, as not to be able to become at least decent, if not eminent, in their several stations, by unwearied and keen application: nor are there any possessed of such transcendent genius and abilities, as to render all pains and diligence unnecessary.
Página 33 - The disposition to defer every important design to a time of leisure, and a state of settled uniformity, proceeds generally from a false estimate of the human powers. If we except those gigantic and stupendous intelligences who are said to grasp a system by intuition, and bound forward from one series of conclusions to another, without regular steps through intermediate propositions, the most successful students make their advances in knowledge by short flights, between each of which the mind may...