An Address Delivered Before the Peithessophian and Philoclean Societies of Rutgers College, Band 47,Ausgabe 2Rutgers Press, Terhune & Letson, printers, 1838 - 34 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquired by discipline ambition Athens beautiful become belong bless bold bosom cided character citizens corrupt courage course cultivation dead languages decided character decision of character Declaration of Independence depends devote yourselves disgrace displayed in firm distinctly distinguished duties elections error example exertion eyes faculties Fame fear Federalist force of education frequently gain genius gentle Gentlemen give you decision glory governments Greece happiness heart Heaven honest honor hope indecision indolence indulge institutions lence let us pass live look mathematics ment metaphysician mind nerves never NEW-BRUNSWICK observation occasion once opinion patriot peace Peithessophian Society perceive permit political pursuits quire reason and judgment republics resolve rience rival RUTGERS COLLEGE shame Shew speak step strength of character success teach theory thing tion touch truth vinces virtuous whole WILLIAM H WILLIAM WIRT wisdom and virtue young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 16 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Seite 35 - ... great or useful. Instead of being progressive in anything, he will be at best stationary, and more probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who carries into his pursuits that great quality which Lucan ascribes to...
Seite 36 - He commences the study of the dead languages ; presently comes a friend, who tells him he is wasting his time, and that, instead of obsolete words, he had much better employ himself in acquiring new ideas. He changes his plan, and sets to work at the mathematics. Then comes another friend, who asks him, with a grave and sapient face, whether he intends to become a professor in a college ; because, if he does not, he is misemploying his time ; and that, for the business of life, common mathematics...
Seite 47 - Why should such a man falter in his course ? He may be slandered ; he may be deserted by the world ; but he has that within, which will keep him erect, and enable him to move onward in his course, with his eyes fixed on heaven, which he knows will not desert him.
Seite 16 - ... exertion, — this vigorous power of profound and searching investigation, — this careering and wide-spreading comprehension of mind, and those long reaches of thought, that, — • — Pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon. Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom line could never touch the ground. And drag up drowned honor by the locks...
Seite 15 - You will see issuing from the walls of the same college — nay, sometimes from the bosom of the same family, — two young men, of whom the one shall be admitted to be a genius of high order, the other scarcely above the point of mediocrity ; yet you shall see the genius sinking and perishing in poverty, obscurity, and wretchedness ; while, on the other hand, you shall observe the mediocre plodding his slow but sure way up the hill of life, gaining steadfast footing at every step, and mounting,...
Seite 48 - ... and substitutes in their place a bolder, loftier, and nobler spirit: one that will dispose you to consider yourselves as born, not so much for yourselves, as for your country, and your fellow creatures, and which will lead you to act on every occasion sincerely, justly, generously, magnanimously. There is a morality on a larger scale, perfectly consistent with a just attention to your own affairs, which it would be the height of folly to neglect: a generous expansion, a proud elevation, and conscious...
Seite 48 - ... character, which is the best preparation for a decided course, in every situation into which- you can be thrown ; and, it is to this high and noble tone of character that I would have you to aspire. I would not have you to resemble those weak and meagre streamlets, which lose their direction at every petty impediment that presents itself, and stop, and turn back, and creep around, and search out every little channel through which they may wind their feeble and sickly course. Nor yet would I have...
Seite 15 - Genius, unexerted, is like the poor moth, that flutters around a candle - till it scorches itself to death. If genius be desirable at all, it is only of that great and magnanimous kind, which, like the Condor of South America, pitches from the...
Seite 49 - But I would have you like the ocean, that noblest emblem of majestic decision, which, in the calmest hour, still heaves its resistless might of waters to the shore, filling the heavens, day and night, with the echoes of its sublime declaration of independence, and tossing and sporting on its bed with an imperial consciousness of strength that laughs at opposition. It is this depth, and weight, and power, and purity of character, that I would have you...