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...he country. Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work. To say that ... ...pton, and to save money to assist him in his expenses there. Both of these objects I was successful in accomplishing. In three years my brother finish... ...pose of regulating the conduct of the coloured people, especially with the object of preventing the members of the race from exercising any influence ... ...ly at night. They were, however, more cruel than the “pa- trollers.” Their objects, in the main, were to crush out the 55 Booker T. Washington politi... ...kind of garden vegetable that is raised anywhere in the country. Their one object seemed to be to plant nothing but cotton; and in many cases cotton w... ...cause they had so little money with which to pay their board. Thus another object which made it desirable to get an industrial system started was in o...

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...he was living, as an explanation of the let- ters to which the authorities objected, is entirely borne out by first-hand information. The kind of badg... ... “Never mind, you will try.” Oh, yes, I would try all right, all right. He objected, I recall, to the nose. By this time the divine “deserter” was wri... ...ands of the great and good French government than did many a Conscientious Objector at the hands of the great and good American government; or— since ... ...ca on the table with a scorn- ful look (a menacingly scornful look) at the object of univer- sal execration; and turned his back. Surplice, trembling ... ...f a fellow English of- ficer (who being a mere lieutenant, should not have objected to Captain Jean’s stealing the affections of his lady), the ser- g... ...Mexique were with me, good. “M’en fou pas mal,” pretty nearly summed up my philosophy. At least the Surveillant let me alone on the Soi-Même topic. Af...

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...ces, and tended in the greatest degree to prevent a just conception of the objects of the science, or of the test to be applied to the solution of the... ...ttled Questions of Political Economy rich themselves and the country. This object, under the vary- ing names of an extensive demand, a brisk circulati... ...it would seem incumbent on them to show, that the expression to which they object is not applicable to a state of things in which all or most commodit... ... by which they are habitually designated. Further, so long as the pedantic objection to the introduction of new technical terms continues, accurate th... ...t and com- plained of, the only answer which we have ever seen made to the objection is, that the line of demarcation must be drawn somewhere, and tha... ..., when he observed that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind. The observation is just; and the first princi... ...branches of knowledge. If we open any book, even of mathematics or natural philosophy, it is impossible not to be struck with the mistiness of what we... ... of being founded upon it. The science of mechanics, a branch of natu- ral philosophy, lays down the laws of motion, and the prop- erties of what are ... ...dge of the properties of the subject-matter: without this, it would not be philosophy, but empiricism; [Greek: empeiria,] not [Greek: technae,] in Pla...

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...o subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation. It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease,... ...uire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. The whole of this objection is but another expression of the tautology: that there can no l... ...re can no longer be any wage labour when there is no longer any capital. All objections urged against the Communistic mode of producing and appropriat... ...een modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality philosophy, political science, and law, constantly sur vived this change... ...l rupture with tra ditional ideas. But let us have done with the bourgeois objections to Communism. We have seen above, that the first step in the r... ...tical constitution adapted thereto, the very things whose attainment was the object of the pending struggle in Germany. To the absolute governments, w...

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...t; “and this, to be sure, is England’s great poet!” Besides these personal objections, there were others of a more solid char- acter. While all admitt... ...rm-hearted patriotism, or high-minded scorn to express. If Lord Carlisle’s object, then, was to elevate Pope to the rank of a classic, it was a superf... ... the man that was in hell.” With the very first class of poets, artificial objects be- come natural, the “rod” becomes a “serpent;” with Pope, natural... ...bjects be- come natural, the “rod” becomes a “serpent;” with Pope, natural objects become artificial, the “serpent” becomes a “rod.” Wordsworth makes ... ...ous controversy about Pope between Bowles and Byron, on the questions—what objects are and are not fitted for poetic purposes, and whether natural or ... ...i: Sola contemnunt Phlegethonta, et Orci Jura superbi.” That his philosophy was empirical, is proved by his “Essay on Man,” which, notwithst... ... humankind: Our knight (who studied much, we may suppose) Derived his high philosophy from those; For, like a prince, he bore the vast expense Of lavi... ...nce lifts its modern type, History her pot, divinity her pipe, While proud philosophy repines to show, Dishonest sight! his breeches rent below; Embro... ...rnal jingle in their ear! VER. 197. In the first edition it was— And proud philosophy with breeches tore, And English music with a dismal score: Fast ...

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...her and more advanced stage in my course of instruction; in which the main object was no longer the aids and appliances of thought, but the thoughts t... ...ries of accurately drawn distinctions be tween it and each of the cognate objects which are succes sively parted off from it—all this, as an educati... ...or with companions of my own age, that I for the first time understood the object of his rules, and saw the psychological grounds of them. At that tim... ...e succeeded Adam Smith; and in this reading it was one of my father’s main objects to make me apply to Smith’s more superficial view of political econ... .... The time, I believe, is drawing near when this dreadful conception of an object of worship will be no longer identified with Chris tianity; and whe... ...e eighteenth century metaphysics, M. Gergonne, on logic, under the name of Philosophy of the Sciences. I also went through a course of the higher math... ...ollection of having once seen Saint Simon, not yet the founder either of a philosophy or a religion, and considered only as a clever original. The chi... ...ty to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the incul... ...my father made me study what he deemed the really master production in the philosophy of mind, Hartley’s Observations on Man . This book, though it d...

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...rnment are assimilated to any other expedients for the attainment of human objects. They are regarded as wholly an affair of invention and contrivance... ... the order of ideas in the minds of those who adopt this view of political philosophy. They look upon a constitution in the same light (difference of ... ...y tolerable degree, fulfilling the conditions, is one of the most rational objects to which prac tical effort can address itself. Every thing which c... ...ions and conditions as all other arts. At this point we are met by another objection, or the same objection in a different form. The forces, it is con... ... instead of reverting to, its previous state. But there are still stronger objections to this theory of gov ernment in the terms in which it is usual... ...ce before ourselves, as the test of good and bad government, so complex an object as the ag gregate interests of society, we would willingly attempt ... ...an be required to promote. But, thus understood, it affords no basis for a philosophy of gov ernment. We can not say that, in constituting a polity, ... ... science at large. For our more limited purpose we borrow from po litical philosophy only its general principles. To determine the form of government... ...nce of the class itself. If checks of this description are sufficient, the philosophy of constitu tional government is but solemn trifling. All trust...

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... the fact that there was never any scolding or punishing by my parents; no objection to rational enjoy- ments, such as fishing, going to the creek a m... ... said he thought I would, and I thought so too, if he did. I really had no objection to going to West Point, except that I had a very exalted idea of ... ...period, no mode of conveyance could be more pleasant, when time was not an object. From Harrisburg to Philadelphia there was a railroad, the first I h... ...e of absence for twenty days, for the pur- pose of visiting—St. Louis. The object of this visit has been before stated. Early in July the long expecte... ...t the time and for many years afterward; but the majority accomplished the object of their youthful ambition. Under Spanish rule Mexico was prohibited...

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...hen a long train of abuses and usur pations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is 3 t... ...in is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an abso lute Tyranny over these States. To pr...

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..., about the color of her hair. She had a way of turning them swiftly upon an object and holding them there as if lost in some inward maze of contempla... ...aving the bird re moved and consigned to regions of darkness. Victor Lebrun objected; and his decrees were as immutable as those of Fate. The parrot ... ...ng away. She was drag ging a chair in and out of her room, and at intervals objecting to the crying of a baby, which a nurse in the adjoining cottage... ...rike her as in the least grotesque that she should be mak ing of Robert the object of conversation and leading her husband to speak of him. The senti... ...er around to see me.” “Oh! I couldn’t do that; there’d be no reason for it,” objected Mr. Pontellier. “Then I’ll go around and see her,” said the Doct...