Life and Works of Horace Mann, Том 1

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Lee and Shepard, 1891

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Сторінка 58 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Сторінка 458 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Сторінка 458 - I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed Churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no further than the instruments of their reformation.
Сторінка 105 - If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness, and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Сторінка 19 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Сторінка 22 - ... that smoothed his pillow, and administered to his helplessness? Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son, that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude. She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience; she will surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment; she will glory...
Сторінка 99 - ... has placed at his disposal the sum of ten thousand dollars, to promote the cause of popular education in Massachusetts...
Сторінка 334 - I ever knew respecting the contest for political and religious freedom, and my own twelve-years' struggle to imbue the public mind with an understanding not merely of the law but of the spirit of religious liberty, had so magnified in my mind the importance of free institutions, and so intensified my horror of all forms of slavery, that even the importance of education itself seemed for a moment to be eclipsed.
Сторінка 12 - I never dog'seared one in my life, nor profanely scribbled upon title pages, margin, or fly-leaf, and would as soon have stuck a pin through my flesh as through the pages of a book. When very young, I remember a young lady came to our house on a visit, who was said to have studied Latin. I looked upon her as a sort of goddess. Years after, the idea that I could ever study Latin broke upon my mind with the wonder and bewilderment of a revelation. Until the age of fifteen 1 had never been to school...
Сторінка 81 - My law books are for sale. My office is "to let." The bar is no longer my forum. My jurisdiction is changed. I have abandoned jurisprudence and betaken myself to the larger sphere of mind and morals.

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