 | 1855 - 864 страници
...purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the aye, at facilitating the exercise of political power and refining the intercourse of private life.... | |
 | 1897 - 560 страници
...purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and iixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...power and refining the intercourse of private life. All this is what a national university would mean to the American people : the source and inspiration... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1890 - 546 страници
...and fixed aims to popular aspiration, in giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, in facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. Residence for a shorter or longer period in this clear and pure atmosphere of sober thought should... | |
 | University College of North Wales. Senate - 1892 - 102 страници
...purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to pro right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard... | |
 | Sir Morell Mackenzie - 1893 - 358 страници
...for the business of life, by fitting him to deal with his fellow-men. To quote Newman once more, " It gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, and eloquence in expressing them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point,... | |
 | William John R. C. Walsh (Archbishop of Dublin.), William Joseph Walsh - 1897 - 564 страници
...purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...power, and refining the intercourse of private life. The fruits of a " Tt 1S the education whicn g'VCS a Liberal man a clear conscious view of his Education.... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - 598 страници
...enthusiasm and fixed aims to I ^-— * ^T popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to *5 the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise...education which gives a man a clear conscious view ^frof his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing 5 them, an eloquence in expressing them,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 страници
...purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...teaches him to see things as they are, to go right .to tlie^ point, ta <Jjsentap6leaskfiin, of thought, to detect what is4 sophistltjil, and^o'discard \vna*is... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1907 - 856 страници
...purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...refining the intercourse of private life." It is the ideal embodied in the glowing eloquence of Arnold's apostrophe to Oxford : " Adorable dreamer, whose... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1913 - 116 страници
...purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety...facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining tho intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his... | |
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But a university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end ; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm... 
