Liber Cantabrigiensis, an Account of the Aids Afforded to Poor Students, the Encouragements Offered to Diligent Students, and the Rewards Conferred on Successful Students, in the University of Cambridge: To which is Prefixed, a Collection of Maxims, Aphorisms, &c. Designed for the Use of LearnersPrinted at the University Press, 1855 - 554 pages |
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... born in a Christian land : and Revelation has provided for you new subjects for reflection , and new treasures of knowledge , never to be unlocked by him who remains self - ignorant . Self - knowledge is the key to this casket , and by ...
... born in a Christian land : and Revelation has provided for you new subjects for reflection , and new treasures of knowledge , never to be unlocked by him who remains self - ignorant . Self - knowledge is the key to this casket , and by ...
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... born under a law : it is our wisdom to find it out , and our safety to comply with it . — Dr Whichcote . 32 . Since the time that God did first proclaim the edicts of his law upon the world , heaven and earth have hearkened unto his ...
... born under a law : it is our wisdom to find it out , and our safety to comply with it . — Dr Whichcote . 32 . Since the time that God did first proclaim the edicts of his law upon the world , heaven and earth have hearkened unto his ...
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... born , and to what- ever studies our genius may direct us , studies they must still be . I am persuaded that Milton did not write his Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labour.— W. Cowper ...
... born , and to what- ever studies our genius may direct us , studies they must still be . I am persuaded that Milton did not write his Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labour.— W. Cowper ...
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... born with the certainty of suc- ceeding to an opulent fortune , is commonly too much indulged during infancy , for submitting to the autho- rity of a governor . Prone to pleasure , he cannot bend to the fatigues of study : his mind is ...
... born with the certainty of suc- ceeding to an opulent fortune , is commonly too much indulged during infancy , for submitting to the autho- rity of a governor . Prone to pleasure , he cannot bend to the fatigues of study : his mind is ...
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... born ; nay , often proves abortive in the moment it was conceived . The only way therefore to retain our thoughts is to fasten them in words , and chain them in writing.- Dr T. Fuller . تا 1 . 56 . I have often observed , 16 APHORISMS ,
... born ; nay , often proves abortive in the moment it was conceived . The only way therefore to retain our thoughts is to fasten them in words , and chain them in writing.- Dr T. Fuller . تا 1 . 56 . I have often observed , 16 APHORISMS ,
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Page 122 - ... books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 28 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 36 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 10 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 11 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 118 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 5 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.
Page 10 - ... a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ?...
Page 139 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 2 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.