The Student's Manual: Designed, by Specific Directions, to Aid in Forming and Strengthening the Intellectual and Moral Character and Habits of the StudentJ.H. Butler, 1835 - 392 pages |
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... body . Grimke's plan . Chairs and lights . No conversa- tion in study hours . Studying aloud . Thorough . How to conquer a country . Inaccurate scholars - how made . The two farms . Exam- ple from Molière . Example of a thorough scholar ...
... body . Grimke's plan . Chairs and lights . No conversa- tion in study hours . Studying aloud . Thorough . How to conquer a country . Inaccurate scholars - how made . The two farms . Exam- ple from Molière . Example of a thorough scholar ...
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... body with more accuracy and skill than he does the soul of man . It is a tradition that Ed- wards knew not his own cows ; but , in the world of active , driving , bargain - making men , you will never find one who understands human ...
... body with more accuracy and skill than he does the soul of man . It is a tradition that Ed- wards knew not his own cows ; but , in the world of active , driving , bargain - making men , you will never find one who understands human ...
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... body in a strait - jacket , and expect it to perform , with ease , and comfort , and promptness , the various duties of the body , as to throw the soul into the habits of some men , and then expect it will accomplish any thing great or ...
... body in a strait - jacket , and expect it to perform , with ease , and comfort , and promptness , the various duties of the body , as to throw the soul into the habits of some men , and then expect it will accomplish any thing great or ...
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... moody , your throat dry , and de- manding stimulating drinks , your person filthy , and your habits those of a swine . Let your dress be neat and simple . Do not feel Dress . Change of garments . that the body , THE STUDENT'S MANUAL . 77.
... moody , your throat dry , and de- manding stimulating drinks , your person filthy , and your habits those of a swine . Let your dress be neat and simple . Do not feel Dress . Change of garments . that the body , THE STUDENT'S MANUAL . 77.
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... body , which is merely a case for the soul , is of too great importance . At the same time , he who is a " good and true man , " will be likely to keep the out- side of his house in good order . In a certain village there is a house ...
... body , which is merely a case for the soul , is of too great importance . At the same time , he who is a " good and true man , " will be likely to keep the out- side of his house in good order . In a certain village there is a house ...
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Page 332 - I have a short and plain answer: let him study the Holy Scripture, especially the New Testament; therein are contained the words of eternal life : it has God for its author, Salvation for its end, and Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter...
Page 330 - Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Page 327 - I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage.
Page 327 - I mention this, to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for, though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, without admiration. Can that Being...
Page 278 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 327 - The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I recollected that no human prudence or foresight could have arrested my present sufferings. I indeed was a stranger in a strange land : yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence who has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye.
Page 77 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 328 - ... in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ?—surely not! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair; I started up, and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled forwards, assured that relief was at hand ; and I was not disappointed.
Page 77 - It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black .... fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 207 - Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who peppered the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind.