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| John Henry Newman - Education, Higher - 1859 - 382 pages
...the beauty of grace : then intellect too, I repeat, has its beauty, and it has those who aim at it. 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 it power over its own faculties,... | |
| John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 pages
...the beauty of grace: then intellect too, I repeat, has its beauty, and it has those who aim at it. 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 it power over its own faculties,... | |
| Baltimore Publishing Company - 1885 - 562 pages
...out, upon a course not of intellectual discipline, but of professional 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 it power over its own faculties, application,... | |
| John Morley - Literature - 1887 - 72 pages
...that these bewildering miscellanies would lead to an immense quantity of that kind of overfeeding. The object of reading is not to dip into everything...one of the most winning writers of English that ever existed—Cardinal Newman—the object of literature in education is,| to open the mind, to correct... | |
| John Henry Newman - Education, Higher - 1893 - 616 pages
...the beauty of grace : then intellect too, I repeat, has its beauty, and it has those who aim at it. To open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable a to know, and to digest, master, rule, and use its knowledge, to give it power over its own faculties,... | |
| Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - University extension - 1894 - 212 pages
...that these bewildering miscellanies would lead to an immense quantity of that kind of overfeeding. The object of reading is not to dip into everything...in education is to open the mind, to correct it, to f refine it, to enable it to comprehend and digest its knowledge, to give it power over its own faculties,... | |
| John Lancaster Spalding - Culture - 1895 - 240 pages
...out, upon a course not of intellectual discipline, but of professional 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 it power over its own faculties,... | |
| Catholic University of America - 1898 - 584 pages
...loom, creating fairest patterns, though the ordinary looker-on observes nothing 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 it power over its own faculties,... | |
| Saint John Henry Newman - Education, Higher - 1899 - 598 pages
...the beauty of grace : then intellect too, I repeat, has its beauty, and it has those who aim at it. To open the mind, to 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... | |
| Bibliography - 1906 - 672 pages
...characterizations of the same. Great commonplaces of reading. J: Morley. Critic. 48: 144-52. F. '06. "The object of reading is not to dip into everything that even wise men have ever written. . . . Most books worth reading once are worth reading twice and — what is most important of all —... | |
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