Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...opinion, is of still greater importance, namely, education. The object of the first is only to develop mind, but the latter has a larger and higher aim, - it has to do with soul. The former trains the intellectual faculties, the imagination, the memory, the judgment; the latter, the moral faculties, the character, the will. Science is the fruit of instruction; virtue should be the result of a good education. Now, even admitting that instruction in the lyceums is of a superior character, - notwithstanding certain fundamental faults which I may speak of hereafter, - it can be stated without fear of contradiction...
SCENE in a hen-roost, on a Sunday evening: "And, Pat, do you think it is right in us stealin' on the night of this houly day?" "Och, Jamie, that's a great moral question; hand us down another pullet...
...success in law is founded on a broad liberal training and education, which should include a knowledge not only of law, but "something of everything," not for the training alone of the mind, but for practical use. A thorough knowledge of history, both social and political, of different countries, moral science, and business in every form, - such are a few of the departments necessary for a lawyer to be acquainted with. To those distrusting their ability to make a success at the bar, feeling a want of eloquence and facility in speaking, he gives a word of encouragement. "Eloquence...
...younger scions of Parkman's circle of readers, or of such of them as read the Harvard Magenta, are in like manner carefully poisoned by such writings as those of 'V. J. R.' on Education in France, in that paper." We shudder at the thought of the moral responsibility we are under for having published such articles. The warning comes too late, however, for we are under contract to publish a long series of similar nature. The Journal must look out for another dose of "poison," and provide itself with a strong antidote...
...decision of the colleges, assembled in convention at Hartford, to hold their first annual literary contest in the city of New York will strike the moral sentiment of the country with surprise. Good men everywhere will view the decision with sorrow and mortification. There is but one conclusion possible in the case. The college convention was captured by the vile emissaries of Tammany. We need not name the methods that were probably employed to procure the bringing of innocent college boys within reach of those unmentionable influences in the great metropolis. The ways of Tammany are dark, and its appliances...