Some few are going up, and carrying us up, heavenward ; calculated, I mean, to be of priceless advantage in teaching, — in forwarding the teaching of all generations. Others, a frightful multitude, are going down, down ; doing ever the more and the... The Educational Weekly - Page 61884Full view - About this book
| 1881 - 396 pages
...few are going up, and carrying us up, heavenward ; calculated, I mean, to be of priceless advantage in teaching,— in forwarding the teaching of all...a frightful multitude, are going down, down; doing even the more, and the wider, and the wilder mischief. Keep a strict eye on that latter class of books,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 444 pages
...few are going up, and carrying us up, heavenward ; calculated, I mean, to be of priceless advantage in teaching, — in forwarding the teaching of all...are to remember that the object is not particular knowledges, — not that of getting higher and higher in technical perfections, and all that sort of... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 450 pages
...few are going up, and carrying us up, heavenward ; calculated, I mean, to be of priceless advantage in teaching, — in forwarding the teaching of all...are to remember that the object is not particular knowledges, — not that of getting higher and higher in technical perfections, and all that sort of... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...is a paltry kind of thing to what it was in those old times. WISDOM, AND NOT PARTICULAR KNOWLEDGES. , and above all the order of stars: being compared...before it. For after this cometh night : but vice shall knowledges, — not that of getting higher and higher in techuical perfections, and all that sort of... | |
| 1878 - 604 pages
...books may, like men's souls, be divided into sheep and goats. Some go up, and carry us heavenward — " others, a frightful multitude, are going down, down...the more, and the wider and the wilder mischief." Nothing is more imperatively necessary than the power to discriminate between good and bad books, between... | |
| United States - 1883 - 82 pages
...few are going up, and carrying us up, heavenward ; calculated, I mean, to be of priceless advantage in teaching — in forwarding the teaching of all...are to remember that the object is not particular knowledges — not that of getting higher and higher in technical perfections, and all that sort of... | |
| Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1883 - 320 pages
...few are going up, and carrying us up, heavenward ; calculated, I mean, to be of priceless advantage in teaching, — in forwarding the teaching of all...are to remember that the object is not particular knowledges, — not that of getting higher and higher in technical perfections, and all that sort of... | |
| Book-lover - 1883 - 336 pages
...few are going up, and carrying us up, heavenward; calculated, I mean, to be of priceless advantage in teaching,— in forwarding the teaching of all...all your studies and readings here, and to whatever vou may learn, you are to remember that the object is not particular knowledges,— not that of getting... | |
| Book-lover - 1883 - 262 pages
...heavonward ; ealeulated, I mean, to bo of prieeless advantage in teaehing, — In forwarding the teaehing of all generations. Others, a frightful multitude, are going down, down ; doing over the more and tho wider and the wilder misehief. Keep a striet eyo on that latter elass of books,... | |
| Alexander Ireland - Books and reading - 1884 - 526 pages
...few are going up, and carrying us up, heavenward ; calculated, I mean, to be of priceless advantage in teaching,— in forwarding the teaching of all...are to remember that the object is not particular knowledges, — not that of getting higher and higher in technical perfections, and all that sort of... | |
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