Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...knew better than be how to manage the annual miracle of the liquefying of the blood at Naples; how to temper the success to the receipt of offerings; how to have the grand climax at the proper moment. Therefore, when his portly frame appeared at the entrance to the refectory, all hopefully awaited the opening of his lips...
...spirit at Harvard, as well as elsewhere, is much lamented by those who believe that Greek and Latin studies have been important always, and are now particularly so. This decline is explained and justified, as so many other things are, by a hasty allusion to "the spirit and the temper of the age" (of this great and good age whose tendencies should be fondled only, and condemned never). Greek and Latin are dead, it is said, and should be buried; but the modern languages and the sciences are alive and full of practical interest. How much or how little truth...
...reference, however, to "the temper of the age" I shall make, because it may thus be seen that the system of teaching which, in this day, puts Greek authors at a point so distant from us as to be discouraging to all and inaccessible to most is necessarily bad. A striking characteristic of the literature of our age is its sympathy with the Greek in thought and in feeling. There never was a time before when writers of English in almost all departments but the religious drew their inspiration so often and so directly from Greek authors. Proofs of this...
Teaching is also to be valued for the experience of life which it gives, for the discipline of temper which it demands, for the self-dependence and capacity of self-help which it develops, and for the habits of punctuality, order, and method which it creates or confirms. At the same time, the new social relations into which the young teacher is brought can hardly fail to be of value, as an initiation into general society, it may be into society of a high order of intelligence and culture, or if not, into conversance with portions and classes...
...none of the subtle qualities of the Velasquez head. Two landscapes by Salvator Rosa (Nos. 25 and 26) are interesting - especially when compared with the Turners in Mr. Norton's collection of last spring - as illustrating the truth of what Mr. Ruskin says of Salvator's morose fierceness of temper, nourished in the wild, melancholy Calabrian hills, and failing to see in them anything that was not gross and terrible. No. 26, the city on the hill with snow-capped mountains rising over it, serves indeed as the recorded defect of mediaeval landscape; but it is vain to seek...