University Extension: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Popular Education, Volumen2

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J. Haseltine Shinn, 1893
 

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Página 246 - No longer since than yesterday, while Burbage's company were acting at the Globe the play of Henry VIII, and there shooting off certain chambers in way of triumph, the fire catched and fastened upon the thatch of the house, and there burned so furiously, as it consumed the whole house, all in less than two hours, the people having enough to do to save themselves.
Página 46 - Dickens's art a thousand and a thousand times, I delight and wonder at his genius ; I recognize in it — I speak with awe and reverence — a commission from that Divine Beneficence, whose blessed task we know it will one day be to wipe every tear from every eye. Thankfully I take my share of the feast of love and kindness, which this gentle, and generous, and charitable soul has contributed to the happiness of tho world. I take and enjoy my share, and say a Benediction for the meal.
Página 318 - Master, all these have I observed from my youth. 21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Página 244 - Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations...
Página 381 - Address to the Students of the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching, delivered at the Mansion House, February 26, 1887. By JOHN MORLEY.
Página 246 - The king's players had a new play, called All is True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the knights of the order with their Georges and...
Página 123 - ... witness that subordination of biology to social science which is a characteristic feature of the present scheme. This attempt does not, however, end with the passage from the special sciences to the classification and orchestration of these, nor even with the exposition of their essential harmony and unity: it has to find its due place within an educational synthesis. The question is not simply of the nature of our scientific conceptions, but of the view we take and the use we make of them. Education...
Página 325 - It is not that we care about public life, for what is public life but the miserable, arid waste of barren controversies and personal jealousies, and grievous loss of time? Who would live in public life if he could help it? But we students, we would help you if we could. We are willing to give up something much dearer than fame and social position. We are willing to give up the life we care for, the life with books and with those we love.
Página 178 - ... brought together in this volume the subject-matter of various lectures which I have been in the habit of giving before my students. The first and third lectures were newly elaborated the present summer for two addresses before the class in biology which came together at the University of Pennsylvania, under the auspices of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. The second lecture was first presented before the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, in Boston, December...
Página 325 - If, that is, you get material civilization, remember that it is not an end in itself. Remember that man, like trees and plants, has his roots in the earth; but, like the trees and plants, he must grow upwards towards the heavens. If you will only keep to the love of your fellow-men and to great ideals, then we shall find our happiness in helping you; but if you do not, then our reparation will be in vain.

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