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City Club Bulletin - Page 23
1914
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Means and Ends of Education

John Lancaster Spalding - Culture - 1895 - 240 pages
...studies, whose object is not " to open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to know, and to digest, master, rule, and use its knowledge, to give...flexibility, method, critical exactness, sagacity, resource, eloquent expression," but simply to impart the requisite skill for the ordinary exercise of the holy...
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A Guide to English Literature, and Essay on Gray

Matthew Arnold - English literature - 1896 - 168 pages
...in education is to open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to comprehend and digest its knowledge, to give it power over its own faculties,...flexibility, method, critical exactness, sagacity, address, and expression. These are the objects of that intellectual perfection which a literary education...
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A Guide to English Literature, and Essay on Gray

Matthew Arnold - English literature - 1896 - 168 pages
...in education is to open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to comprehend and digest its knowledge, to give it power over its own faculties,...flexibility, method, critical exactness, sagacity, address, and expression. These are the objects of that intellectual perfection which a literary education...
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The Catholic University Bulletin, Volume 4

Catholic University of America - 1898 - 584 pages
...but din and disorder. " To open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to know, agd to digest, master, rule, and use its knowledge, to give...critical exactness, sagacity, resource, address, eloquent expressions,"1 has ever been counted the specific purpose of any liberal teaching. None of the ecclesiastical...
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The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: I. in Nine Discourses ...

Saint John Henry Newman - Education, Higher - 1899 - 598 pages
...correct it, to refine it, to enable \\ to know, and to digest, master, rule, atid use "its "fenow1 ledge, to give it power over its own faculties, application,...sagacity, resource, address, eloquent expression, is an object as intelllgiBIe (for here we are inquiring, not what the object of a Liberal Education...
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Right Reading: Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books

Books and reading - 1902 - 112 pages
...in education is to open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to comprehend and digest its knowledge, to give it power over its own faculties,...flexibility, method, critical exactness, sagacity, address, and expression. These are the objects of that intellectual perfection which a literary education...
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The Scrap Book, Volume 1

Short stories, American - 1906 - 594 pages
...in education is to open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to comprehend and digest its knowledge, to give it power over its own faculties,...flexibility, method, critical exactness, sagacity, address, and expression. Literature consists of all the books — and they are not so many — where...
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NCEA Bulletin, Volumes 10-12

National Catholic Educational Association - 1913 - 1550 pages
...eloquent language of Newman, "to open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to know and to digest, master rule and use its knowledge, to give...sagacity, resource, address, eloquent expression" — this does not belong to philosophy alone, but is the product of liberal education as a whole, a...
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The Pleasures of Bookland

Books and reading - 1914 - 198 pages
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University of Ottawa Review, Volume 8

1905 - 516 pages
...wisdom. As he says, the object of education, is to open the mind to correct it, to enable it to know and digest, master, rule, and use its knowledge, to give...flexibility, method, critical exactness, sagacity, recourse, address, and eloquent expression. It does not require much consideration to see that this...
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