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It's the lessons we learned from the past.
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The whole army was particularly strong in cavalry; out of the 450,000, 80,000 belonged to that arm, and Napoleon, mindful of the lessons of 1807, had issued the most minute and detailed orders for the supply service in all its branches, and the forwarding of reinforcements, no less than 100,000 men being destined for that purpose in due course of time.
He worked hard at his classical lessons, and supplemented the ordinary business of the school by studying mathematics in the holidays.
The early lessons which he had received from his father were continued by his uncle Daniel, and such was his progress that at the age of twenty-one he was called to undertake the duties of the chair of experimental physics, which his uncle's advanced years rendered him unable to discharge.
Cicero took lessons from him.
In his hands the history of Florence became a text on which at fitting seasons to deliver lessons in the science he initiated.
After a year and a half in London, Franklin was persuaded by a friend named Denham, a Quaker merchant, to return with him to America and engage in mercantile business; he accordingly gave up printing, but a few days before sailing he received a tempting offer to remain and give lessons in swimming - his feats as a swimmer having given him considerable reputation - and he says that he might have consented " had the overtures been sooner made."
The custom of delivering expositions or comments more or less extemporaneous on the lessons of the day at all events passed over soon and readily into the Christian Church, as may be gathered from the first Apology (c. 67) of Justin Martyr, where we read that, in connexion with the practice of reading portions from the collected writings of the prophets and from the memoirs of the apostles, it had by that time become usual for the presiding minister to deliver a discourse in which "he admonishes the people, stirring them up to an imitation of the good works which have been brought before their notice."
About the same time he made the acquaintance of Metastasio, who was lodging in the same house, and who introduced him to one or two patrons; among others Senor Martinez, to whose daughter he gave lessons, and Porpora, who, in 1753, took him for the summer to Mannersdorf, and there gave him instruction in singing and in the Italian language.
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Hardly knowing anything of music, he attempted to give lessons and a concert at Lausanne; and he actually taught at Neuchatel.
Foreign readers of Maine have perhaps understood even better than English ones that he is not the propounder of a system but the pioneer of a method, and that detailed criticism, profitable as it may be and necessary as in time it must be, will not leave the method itself less valid or diminish the worth of the master's lessons in its use.
This was followed by a long series of popular treatises in rapid succession, amongst the more important of which are Light Science for Leisure Hours and The Sun (1871); The Orbs around Us and Essays on Astronomy (1872); The Expanse of Heaven, The Moon and The Borderland of Science (1873); The Universe and the Coming Transits and Transits of Venus (1874);(1874); Our Place among Infinities (1875); Myths and Marvels of Astronomy (1877); The Universe of Stars (1878); Flowers of the Sky (1879); The Peotry of Astronomy (1880); Easy Star Lessons and Familiar Science Studies (1882); Mysteries of Time and Space and The Great Pyramid (1883); The Universe of Suns (1884); The Seasons (1885); Other Suns than Ours and Half-Hours with the Stars (1887).
The naval war had been likewise fruitful of lessons for the future.
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Accordingly, when Seymour's other misbehaviour led to his arrest, his relations with Elizabeth were made the subject of a very trying investigation, which gave Elizabeth her first lessons in the feminine arts of self-defence.
In the autumn of 1555 she went down to Hatfield, where she spent most of the rest of Mary's reign, enjoying the lessons of Ascham and Baldassare Castiglione, and planting trees which still survive.
He who believes that every judgment on the highest matters different from his own is simply a heresy must have a mean idea of the faith; and while the qualifications, the reserve, the lingering sympathies of the real student make him in many cases a poor controversialist, it may be said that a mere controversialist cannot be a real theologian" (Lessons from Work, pp. 84-85).
On this occasion he was introduced to the queen, who took lessons in the mystical interpretation of his writings, and made him great promises, which, however, were never fulfilled.
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About the same time he had lessons in drawing and in oil painting from Runciman.
Although Ruskin was practised in drawing from the time that he could hold a pencil, and had lessons in painting from some eminent artists, he at no time attempted to paint pictures.
Two years after, lack of pupils compelled him to move to Rudolstadt and later to Dresden, where he gave lessons in music. In 1805 his ideal of a universal world-society led him to join the Freemasons, whose principles seemed to tend in the direction he desired.
He was always explaining why he did this or that, why the new was better than the old, and so on; and we must recollect that these were the first lessons of the kind the nation had ever received.
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She applied herself to learning the language with such zeal that she rose at night and walked about her bedroom barefoot repeating her lessons.
This being so, it is evident that if all the distasteful species in a given area are differently coloured, some individuals of all the species will be annually sacrificed to the experimental tasting of inexperienced foes before the numerous lessons have been learnt.
The lessons of history were not very favourable to the enterprise.
The lessons derived from the abstract principles enunciated by the physiologist, the chemist and the physicist require, however, to be modified to suit the special circumstances of plants under cultivation.
Cauchy (Paris, 1846); and the Geometrie descriptive (originating, as mentioned above, in the lessons given at the normal school).
But his public lessons were ill attended, and he soon fell back upon his old vocation of publisher under the patronage of a new pope, Clement VIII.
From the 2nd century onwards references multiply, though the earlier references do not prove the existence of a fixed lectionary or order of lessons, but rather point the other way.
First come two lessons from the Old Testament by a reader, the whole of the Old Testament being made use of except the books of the Apocrypha.
Whether the selections were ad libitum or according to a fixed table of lessons we are not informed.
The third council of Carthage in 397 forbade anything but Holy Scripture to be read in church; this rule has been adhered to so far as the liturgical epistle and gospel, and occasional additional lessons in the Roman missal are concerned, but in the divine office, on feasts when nine lessons are read at matins, only the first three lessons are taken from Holy Scripture, the next three being taken from the sermons of ecclesiastical writers, and the last three from expositions of the day's gospel; but sometimes the lives or Passions of the saints, or of some particular saints, were substituted for any or all of these breviary lessons.
Swift as before to strike, in three months' time he had deftly turned his own word against the would-be master by administering Due Correction for Mr Hobbes, or School Discipline for not saying his Lessons right, in a piece that differed from the Elenchus only in being more biting and unrestrained.
Arguing in the Lessons that a mathematical point must have quantity, though this were not reckoned, he had explained the Greek word UTCy v, used for a point, to mean a visible mark made with a hot iron;; whereupon he was charged by Wallis with gross ignorance for confounding artypii and o - y,ua.
The Vindex episode, referred to in the Six Lessons, becomes intelligible only by going beyond Molesworth to the original Latin edition of 1655 They were composed originally, in a somewhat different and rather more extended form, as the second part of an English treatise on Optics, completed by the year 1646.
In the primary schools Arabic is the medium of instruction, the use of English for that purpose being confined to lessons in that language itself.
Encouraged by his mother, and under the influence of his governess Madame de Roucoulle, and of his first tutor Duhan, a French refugee, he acquired an excellent knowledge of French and a taste for literature and music. He even received secret lessons in Latin, which his father invested with all the charms of forbidden fruit.
In 1861 Reid took lessons from an itinerant portrait-painter, William Niddrie, who had been a pupil of James Giles, R.S.A., and afterwards entered as a student in the school of the Board of Trustees in Edinburgh.
Daubeny and others gained their first lessons in geology.
The school system was reorganized by new regulations, in accordance with which Hegel wrote a series of lessons in the outlines of philosophy - ethical, logical and psychological.
More than most thinkers he had quietly laid himself open to the influences of his time and the lessons of history.
Oeser (1717-1799), the director of the academy of painting in the Pleissenburg, who had given him lessons in drawing, as the teacher who in Leipzig had influenced him most.
The books were compiled and preserved for definite aims, and their teaching is directed now to the needs of the people as a whole - as in the ever popular stories of Genesis - now to the inculcation of the lessons of the past, and now to matters of ritual.
The sources of the narrative are obviously older than the theological exposition of its lessons, and herein lies the value and interest of Judges.
When the Austrians returned Cattaneo had to flee, and took refuge at Lugano, where he gave lessons, wrote his Storia della Rivoluzione del 1848, the Archivio triennale delle cose d'Italia (3 vols., 1850-1855), and then early in 1860 he started the Politecnico once more.
Languages should be taught, like the mother tongue, by conversation on ordinary topics; pictures, object lessons, should be used; teaching should go hand in hand with a happy life.
At Vienna he had lessons in pianoforte playing from Carl Czerny of " Velocity " fame, and from Salieri in harmony and analysis of scores.
During this period he acted as conductor at court concerts and on special occasions at the theatre, gave lessons to a number of pianists, wrote articles of permanent value on certain works of Berlioz and the early operas of Wagner, and produced those orchestral and choral pieces upon which his reputation as a composer mainly depends.
The subject of each poem is generally suggested by some part of the lessons or the gospel or the epistle for the day.
Thus some of the most valuable lessons as to the normal evolution of a system of finance are to be learned in this connexion.
The " way " of Heaven, the " course " of Heaven, the " lessons " of Heaven, the law or " decree " (ming) of Heaven, are constantly cited as the pattern for the emperor and his subjects.
As compared with the Anglican Book of Common Prayer it is both more and less comprehensive; more, in that it includes lessons and hymns for every day in the year; less, because it excludes the Eucharistic office (contained in the Missal), and the special offices connected with baptism, marriage, burial, ordination, &c., which are found in the Ritual or the Pontifical.
In the early days of Christian worship, when Jewish custom was followed, the Bible furnished all that was thought necessary, containing as it did the books from which the lessons were read and the psalms that were recited.
Already in the 8th century Prudentius, bishop of Troyes, had in a Breviarium Psalterii made an abridgment of the Psalter for the laity, giving a few psalms for each day, and Alcuin had rendered a similar service by including a prayer for each day and some other prayers, but no lessons or homilies.
The Proprium Sanctorum contains the lessons, psalms and liturgical formularies for saints' festivals, and depends on the days of the secular month.
The Commune Sanctorum comprises psalms, antiphons, lessons, &c., for feasts of various groups or classes (twelve in all); e.g.
The lessons read at the third nocturn are patristic homilies on the Gospels, and together form a rough summary of theological instruction.
The lessons, as has been seen, are drawn variously from the Bible, the Acts of the Saints and the Fathers of the Church.
In the lessons, as in the psalms, the order for special days breaks in upon the normal order of ferial offices and dislocates the scheme for consecutive reading.
The lessons are read at Matins (which is subdivided into three nocturns).
The little chapters are very short lessons read at the other "hours."
Disliking his father's trade of bookbinding, for which he was intended, he left home in 1755, and after taking lessons in surgery and chemistry at Amsterdam, became a ship's surgeon in the Dutch service.
In the following year appeared the Elementary Lessons on Logic, which soon became the most widely read elementary textbook on logic in the English language.
The abiding result of his tutorship is a code of carefully graduated moral lessons - the Fables, the Dialogues of the Dead (a series of imaginary conversations between departed heroes), and finally Telemaque, where the adventures of the son of Ulysses in search of a father are made into a political novel with a purpose.
Yet he represents another mood of ancient Rome, the mood natural to her before she was humanized by the lessons of Greek art and thought.
Its most valuable lessons to the world were preserved in Christianity; but the grand simplicity of its monism slumbered for fifteen centuries before it was revived by Spinoza.
Possessed of great political sagacity and knowledge of the lessons of history, Vieira used the pulpit as a tribune from which he propounded measures for improving the general and particularly the economic condition of Portugal.
Each new creation, each new step in the theory, demanded another, until the whole sky was filled with forgeries of the brain, and the nobler and simpler lessons of the founder of the religion were hidden beneath the glittering stream of metaphysical subtleties.
The acute minds of the Buddhist pandits, no longer occupied with the practical lessons of Arahatship, turned their xvi.
In 1881 appeared his Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, twice reprinted in 1882 and 16 times in the ensuing 12 years.
The crusade, in which he distinguished himself equally by wisdom and prowess, taught his practical spirit several lessons.
He writes of it with despondency as a degenerate and declining age; and, instead of triumphant prophecies of world-wide rule, such as we find in Horace, Livy contents himself with pointing out the dangers which already threatened Rome, and exhorting his contemporaries to learn, in good time, the lessons which the past history of the state had to teach.
Scarcely less strong than his interest in Rome is his interest in the moral lessons which her history seemed to him so well qualified to teach.
Calpurnius Piso, tribune in 149 B.C. and consul in 133 B.C., prided himself on reducing the old legends to the level of common sense, and importing into them valuable moral lessons for his own generation.
He was accompanied by many of his disciples; and as they passed by the Tai Mountain, an incident occurred which may be narrated as a specimen of the way in which he communicated to them his lessons.
The marquis forgot the lessons of the master, and yielded supinely to the fascinations of the harem.
With his own lessons and those patterns, any ruler of his day, who would listen to him, might reform and renovate his own state, and his influence would break forth beyond its limits till the face of the whole kingdom should be filled with a multitudinous relation-keeping, well-fed, happy people.
Only a few years remained to him, and he devoted them to the completion of his literary tasks, and the delivery of his lessons to his disciples.
At least a hundred years had to pass ere a new edition of the whole Bible was undertaken, nor was the Bible used for private reading, except such passages as were included in the lessons read in church.
With the view of directing the thoughts of Christians to the first coming of Christ as Saviour, and to his second coming as Judge, special lessons are prescribed for the four Sundays in Advent.
George Hickes gave him lessons in Old English.
The teaching of the magistri consisted in oral lessons (lecturae) directly based on the text.
Other works by Mahan are a Life of Admiral Farragut (1892); The Interest of America in Sea Power (1897); Lessons of the War with Spain (1899); The Story of the War with South Africa and The Problem of Asia (1900); Types of Naval Officers drawn from the History of the British Navy (1901); Retrospect and Prospect, studies of international relations (1902).
France was ruined for a generation, England was exhausted by her effort, and (what was worse) her governing classes learnt in the long find pitiless war lessons of demoralization which were to bear fruit in the ensuing struggle of the two Roses.
Francis Wayland Parker (1837-1902), who abolished learning lessons by rote, and introduced Froebelian principles.
But he was not entirely self-educated; at sixteen he entered the college of his native place, though his family was so poor that he could not procure the necessary books, and had to borrow them from his mates in order to copy the lessons.
He was educated at the Jesuit school of Caen, and also received lessons from the Protestant pastor, Samuel Bochart.
C. Hope at Edinburgh, and on returning to Glasgow gave lessons in mathematics, and subsequently chemistry, until the year 1829, when he was appointed lecturer in the Mechanics' Institute.
Dissatisfied with her own intellectual attainments she went in 1839 to Berlin, where she took lessons in German, Greek and Hebrew.
Thence he went to Berlin, earning a livelihood there, as in Heidelberg, by giving private lessons.
Putting such a thing behind him was difficult, but it would be folly to forget the lessons he had learned with that experience.
Xander made it clear who taught lessons to the Guardians who failed to respect the boundaries.
We sat down to lessons in an environment that seemed very conducive to learning.
At the very least, be able to provide simple chordal accompaniments during lessons.
We managed to have a few lessons in various places, to become adaptable at riding anywhere!
The focus on Ireland proved apt given that so much of what has gone on there provides lessons for elsewhere.
People of every nationality, age and gender filled the outdoor arena for free Salsa lessons courtesy of Club Salsa.
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They allow for the rapid assimilation of practical lessons from experience at very little cost.
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The service will be in the style of the traditional " Nine Lessons and Carols " sung by candlelight.
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Creative pursuits include cookery lessons with the pastry chef.
He danced the choreography he had been learning in his private lessons.
The children are badly off at school; there is no appointed teacher - an old well-informed collier gives lessons to young ones.
Lessons cover topics ranging from muscle contraction to cardiac activity to reaction time.
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Peter Strachan, managing director of Arriva Trains Wales, said his company was learning lessons from Denmark.
Eustace found him not so docile in his lessons as Edward.
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Raven was doubtless an intellectual and was immensely learned, but he was a scientific dunce despite his nature study and biology lessons.
Whenever Hurley feels the least bit energetic, she is taking Hindu lessons, the mother tongue of Nayar.
Any positive lessons to be learned will be fed into appropriate fora in the MPS for further detailed study.
Bianca will be making an occasional foray into Drama lessons.
They learned lessons in the fiery furnace they would never have learned in the cool of day.
If he took some acting lessons, Hollywood would certainly be interested in the Irish heartthrob.
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We need to learn the lessons from every domestic violence homicide.
Children need to be adequately hydrated during all school lessons in order to maximize their learning potential.
His original application was for lessons not in ice skating but in cake icing.
Such a notion nevertheless seems implicit in much of the push for online science lessons today.
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We will draw lessons about authority from the four incidents recorded in the chapter.
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Each day, we had three hours of Spanish lessons with two teachers who both claimed not to be able to speak English.
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Speed equals distance divided by time we learned in early maths lessons.
Do not be afraid to take elocution lessons if needed. or to consult with a more experienced preacher regarding style and presentation.
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There are many different mandalas, each with different lessons to teach.
We see children with their own en-suite marble bathroom dumped in group lessons where they understand little and learn less.
We must remain mindful of these lessons from history.
When the grammar lessons were becoming too monotonous I would retreat to the questions and unknowns of global politics.
Many of the classic novellas are concerned with people learning important lessons or making significant journeys.
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Lessons of October was part of the struggle for historical objectivity which was already under threat from the ruling group in the party.
In the lessons he attends he learns, and is exposed to, real occultism.
I decided that I wanted more from singing lessons than just one-on-one tuition, where I would be taught the technical side of singing.
They don't learn their lessons, they don't listen, they fidget and play, and prevent others from learning.
Many of the girls did not enjoy pe and were happy to be able to officially miss lessons.
Palmer's own influences were diverse, the lessons he learned from them highly personal.
When I was younger I'd go strawberry picking after my piano lessons.
Firstly, the children participated in Literacy lessons concerning regular and irregular plurals.
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Researchers from Newcastle university studied 122 primary schools in six local authorities, visited lessons and interviewed teachers and pupils.
On Thursday at Stoke Mandeville Stadium a local primary school was using the pool for their weekly lessons.
It was also thought probable that children could be taught their lessons while they slept at night.
In reality " the dry residuum " of the average student's knowledge is determined just by what was interesting at history lessons.
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The lessons we have learned will inform our re-examination of how best to support good scouting in some ten thousand local Groups.
The intention is to make a scrapbook for him to take away with him once we have finished the extra lessons.
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The author, a former signalman, examines railroad accidents in Britain and looks at their historical perspective, causes and lessons learned.
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Until he uses his own summary tables and sees the snags he may not fully appreciate the important lessons to be learned.
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As for the evil of the holocaust, I notice that the holocaust survivors have learned no lessons.
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The research team also tape-recorded lessons and used this evidence to explore unexpected findings from the coded observations in more detail.
While urban transport and the environment will be the primary sectors analyzed, the broader lessons from the research are intended to extend further.
Secondly, we learn lessons about authority from the incident of the fig tree.
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There are lessons to be learned from the differential turnout.
Those who had begun the campaign as raw often untried troops ended as seasoned veterans, who had learned their lessons the hard way.
There are many lessons in the Hungarian uprising of 1956.
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William's father was a professional musician (playing valve trombone) and the young William took lessons on the violin and the drums.
Many of these lessons are sent to people living in remote areas of Nepal where no Bible is found and few preachers dare venture.
Words are fully vocalized in the early lessons, but vowels are progressively discarded; they are, however, shown in the vocabulary.
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In addition to learning woodworking, he also learns spiritual lessons from his mentor, professing " God is not visible.
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Astute, ambitious and unrestrained by conscience, Dubois ingratiated himself with his pupil, and, while he gave him formal school lessons, at the same time pandered to his evil passions and encouraged him in their indulgence.
But himself no trained metaphysician, and unsusceptible to the lessons of history, he gives but fragments of a system which are held together, not by their intrinsic consistency, but by the vigour of his personal conviction transcending the weaknesses and collisions of his several arguments.
From a greengrocer he learnt arithmetic; and higher branches were begun under one of those wandering scholars who gained a livelihood by cures for the sick and lessons for the young.
During this period he gave lessons in rhetoric, and enjoyed the society of many distinguished men.
Still, the context in which the quotation occurs makes it evident that the subject-matter was not the nature of particular species nor the spiritual lessons to be drawn therefrom, but rather the place occupied by animal beings in the system of creation.
Accordingly, his supernatural revelations resemble a course of lessons in celestial geography more than a description of the beatific vision.
Together, then, with the necessary multiplication of specialism, one of the chief lessons of the latter moiety of the 19th century was the unity of medicine in all its branches - a unity strengthened rather than weakened by special researches, such as those into "medical" and "surgical" pathology, which are daily making more manifest the absurdity of the distinction.
But scattered through all these alternate outbursts of hope and despair we find precious lessons of purest morality, and solemn warnings against the tricks and perfidy of the world, the vanity of all earthly splendour and greatness, the folly and injustice of men, and the hypocrisy, frivolity and viciousness of fashionable society and princely courts in particular.
In these cynic weeds and with Epicurean good humour did he dictate his politics, and in this school did the heir of the empire attend his lessons and imbibe them."
To prevent misconception he must expand and explain what was obscure, adjust the incidents of the past to the ideas of later times, emphasize the moral lessons to be learned from the national history, and, finally, adapt the rules and regulations of the Old Covenant to the conditions and requirements of his own age.
His favourite author was beyond all doubt Plutarch, and his own explicit confession makes it undeniable that Plutarch's translator, Jacques Amyot, was his master in point of vocabulary and (so far as he took any lessons in it) of style.
His wife, who had been for some years an invalid, died rather suddenly on the 28th of May 1901, and he dedicated to her memory his last book, Lessons from Work (1991).
He took a very active part in the measures for the establishment of the normal school (which existed only during the first four months of the year 1795), and of the school for public works, .afterwards the polytechnic school, and was at each of them professor for descriptive geometry; his methods in that science were first published in the form in which the shorthand writers took down his lessons given at the normal school in 1795, and .again in 1798-1799.
When he had thus disposed of the " Paralogisms " of his more formidable antagonist in the first five lessons, he ended with a lesson on " Manners " to the two professors together, and set himself gravely at the close to show that he too could be abusive.
When Peter the Great went to Holland in 1715, to instruct himself in maritime affairs, he also took lessons from Boerhaave.
He felt, no doubt, that the object of epic poetry was not to teach moral lessons or doctrines of faith, but to depict the good and bad tendencies of the human mind, the struggles and passions of men; and indeed in the whole range of Persian literature only Firdusi and Fakhr-uddin As`ad Jorjani, the author of the older epopee Wis u.
It is difficult even still to get beyond the maxims of practical wisdom he scattered so liberally through his writings, the lessons to be learned from Meister and Faust, or even that calm, optimistic fatalism which never deserted Goethe, and was so completely justified by the tenor of his life.
Poisson was first sent to an uncle, a surgeon at Fontainebleau, and began to take lessons in bleeding and blistering, but made little progress.
In this way he is led to regard the sophist successively - (t) as a practitioner of that branch of mercenary persuasion in private which professes to impart " virtue " and exacts payment in the shape of a fee, in opposition to the flatterer who offers pleasure, asking for sustenance in return; (2) as a practitioner of that branch of mental trading which purveys from city to city discourses and lessons about " virtue," in opposition to the artist who similarly purveys discourses and lessons about the arts; (3) and (4) as a practitioner of those branches of mental trading, retail and wholesale, which purvey discourses and lessons about " virtue " within a city, in opposition to the artists who similarly purvey discourses and lessons about the arts; (5) as a practitioner of that branch of eristic which brings to the professor pecuniary emolument, eristic being the systematic form of antilogic, and dealing with justice, injustice and other abstractions, and antilogic being that form of disputation which uses question and answer in private, in opposition to forensic, which uses continuous discourse in the law-courts; (6) as a practitioner of that branch of education which purges away the vain conceit of wisdom by means of crossexamination, in opposition to the traditional method of reproof or admonition.
In Paris he had composition lessons from Pair, and a six months' course of lessons in counterpoint from Reicha.
The master was certainly puzzled by his pupil; he saw his ability, and, when Millet in his poverty could not longer pay the monthly fees, arranged for his free admission to the studio, but he tried in vain to make him take the approved direction, and lessons ended with "Eh, bien, allez a votre guise, vous etes si nouveau pour moi que je ne veux rien vous dire."
The task was a great one, and the fame to be won by it uncertain, yet it would be something to have made the attempt, and the labour itself would bring a welcome relief from the contemplation of present evils; for his readers, too, this record will, he says, be full of instruction; they are invited to note especially the moral lessons taught by the story of Rome, to observe how Rome rose to greatness by the simple virtues and unselfish devotion of her citizens, and how on the decay of these qualities followed degeneracy and decline.
Thus, the signs used to ask a deaf and dumb child about his meals and lessons, or to communicate with a savage met in the desert about game or enemies, belong to codes of gesture-signals identical in principle, and to a great extent independent both of nationality and education; there is even a natural syntax, or order of succession, in such gesturesigns.
But as early as Aegidius Romanus (1247-1316), Averroes had been stamped as the patron of indifference to theological dogmas, and credited with the emancipation which was equally due to wider experience and the lessons of the Crusades.
Taken altogether, it was a dreadfully long name to weigh down a poor innocent child, and one of the hardest lessons I ever learned was to remember my own name.
This was one of their first lessons at home and at school.
In the eradication of smallpox, as in the near-elimination of polio, I find both fascinating lessons of history and enormous reason for hope.
We can draw lessons and encouragement from the histories of polio and smallpox, on several counts.
In the 1968 book The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant calculated that, "In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war."
The military doesn't buy their haircuts, website design, or piano lessons.
For a long time I had no regular lessons.
All my early lessons have in them the breath of the woods--the fine, resinous odour of pine needles, blended with the perfume of wild grapes.
Miss Sullivan and I kept up a game of guessing which taught me more about the use of language than any set lessons could have done.
Miss Sullivan sat beside me at my lessons, spelling into my hand whatever Mr. Irons said, and looking up new words for me.
Consequently, I need more time to prepare my lessons than other girls.
I enjoy my lessons very much.
The "singing lessons" were to strengthen her voice.
She had taken a few piano lessons at the Perkins Institution.
I enjoy my singing lessons with Dr. Humason more than I can say.
I expect to take piano lessons sometime....
Miss Irwin seemed to have no objection to this proposal, and kindly offered to see the professors and find out if they would give me lessons.
Dear Frau Grote learned the manual alphabet, and used to teach me herself; but this was in private lessons, which were paid for by my friends.
I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO TRY TO HAVE REGULAR LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT.
Since I have abandoned the idea of regular lessons, I find that Helen learns much faster.
We have reading lessons every day.
In her reports Miss Sullivan speaks of "lessons" as if they came in regular order.
The Christmas season has furnished many lessons, and added scores of new words to Helen's vocabulary.
In these early lessons I encouraged her in the use of different forms of expression for conveying the same idea.
This is especially true of her earlier lessons, when her knowledge of language was so slight as to make explanation impossible.
When at the age of fourteen she had had but a few lessons in German, she read over the words of "Wilhelm Tell" and managed to get the story.
In the same way she played with Latin, learning not only from the lessons her first Latin teacher gave her, but from going over and over the words of a text, a game she played by herself.
Teachers of the deaf often express surprise that Helen's speech is so good when she has not received any regular instruction in speech since the first few lessons given her by Miss Fuller.
We have engaged an Italian to give her lessons.
He took the exercise book containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair with his foot.
Don't you wecollect what bad use I made of your lessons?
Princess Mary had ceased taking lessons in mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his grandfather called him).
He did not even remember how formerly, on the strength of similar wretched logical arguments, it had seemed obvious that he would be degrading himself if he now, after the lessons he had had in life, allowed himself to believe in the possibility of being useful and in the possibility of happiness or love.
Another lately added sorrow arose from the lessons she gave her six year-old nephew.
Princess Mary spent half of every day with little Nicholas, watching his lessons, teaching him Russian and music herself, and talking to Dessalles; the rest of the day she spent over her books, with her old nurse, or with "God's folk" who sometimes came by the back door to see her.
And suddenly he saw vividly before him a long-forgotten, kindly old man who had given him geography lessons in Switzerland.
One day in midwinter when sitting in the schoolroom attending to her nephew's lessons, she was informed that Rostov had called.
How to solve a sudoku puzzle - lessons...
We also run RE lessons in the upper school.
This can then be used to recap in future lessons.
The College are now looking forward to using the lessons learned in South America during the remainder of the rugby season.
In reality " the dry residuum " of the average student 's knowledge is determined just by what was interesting at history lessons.
Music Ace lessons are self-paced and can be used as supplements to schoolroom music classes (or when no music courses are available).
The lessons we have learned will inform our re-examination of how best to support good Scouting in some ten thousand local Groups.
General seamanship and ship safety lessons were mixed with regular cross-country runs, circuit training, marching practice and lifeboat rowing in Dover harbor.
The more self-study you do, the more enjoyable the lessons will be !
Joe 's friends joined in his sign language lessons to stop him feeling left out - and now he is talking back.
Here 's an example... As an adult Sunday School teacher, I wrote many skits to illustrate the themes of my lessons.
Now I was regretting skiving off lessons whilst at Woolmer Hill school, in helping the groundsman with his chores instead.
Parent & baby swimming lessons The Quays Swimming & Diving Complex gets stamp of approval First UK directory of child friendly swimming pools.
There are a number of key lessons for both those providing PI cover for architects and insurers pursuing subrogated recoveries.
Kite surfing lessons, learn to kite surf at the Paracademy Extreme Sport Center...
All of our kite surfing lessons are taken on the south coast...
Surfing Holidays, Surfing Lessons, Surf Camps, Surf Schools...
At John Smith Pool what days do the swimming lessons run?
The ESF, t +33 (0)479 00 61 43 gives lessons from three years.
Also the director mentions that Matt Damon took tango lessons in preparation for Grimm.
The annual induction day in July has been improved by providing funding for resources for taster lessons.
Online Language Tuition In addition to our face-to-face language tuition we are also able to provide individuals with private one-to-one online language lessons.
And are you not in danger of unlearning the civil liberties lessons of the last 30 years?
Or concoct wildly utopian lessons or plenaries for all occasions.
William 's father was a professional musician (playing valve trombone) and the young William took lessons on the violin and the drums.
Waving arms and waggling fingers were the order of the day when Southampton water babies took their swimming lessons in silence.
The re-elected and newly-elected politicians would be well-advised to pay close attention to the lessons arising from their misconduct in 2003.
In addition, the hut where we had woodwork lessons had been taken over by the army.
In addition to learning woodworking, he also learns spiritual lessons from his mentor, professing God is not visible.
You can learn to surf, take kite surfing lessons, try power kiting, land yachting, or relax in The Beach...
If you are remiss during your piano lessons, preparing for the recital will be difficult.
The accordion is a very complex instrument to learn to play, so lessons from a professional are recommended.
Successful entrepreneurs embrace failure, by learning the lessons, making the adjustments and moving on.
Helping your child to recognize his name is a great way to reinforce lessons being taught in preschool, for example.
For a fee of $14.95, customers get access to three comprehensive diaper cake training lessons that add up to 15 videos that teach people how to make many different styles of diaper cakes.
You've mastered the sport through lessons, and are sick of renting every time you hit the slopes.
If you've taken lessons on rented water skis and are ready to purchase your own set, follow the steps below for a successful shopping experience.
Follow our advice on how to get tennis lessons and you'll be in the swing of things in no time.
Also do a search online for tennis lessons in your area.
Depending on what you want (private or group lessons), make a reservation to take part in a tennis instruction class or private session.
Talk to employee of the tennis center about items you need to bring, clothes you should wear and which types of payment are accepted for the lessons.
Be absolutely sure you want the tennis lessons you're ready to pay for.
If the lessons fall on Saturday mornings at 8am, and you're someone who likes to sleep in on the weekends, consider finding lessons that fall on a different day and time of the week.
Be well aware of the skill level you're at before purchasing tennis lessons.
Tennis Tip allows you to find lessons and partners through just a few clicks of your mouse.
Tennis4you offers "tennis lessons on the web and so much more."
Tennis4All.com offers users the chance to find a tennis partner, take part in tennis chat and peruse classifieds for lessons and equipment.
If you're interested in giving yoga a try, check out the tips below for how to purchase a series of yoga lessons.
Place calls to each and ask about beginners' yoga lessons.
Inquire about how much a set of yoga lessons costs, as well as when the lessons will be held.
If you can afford private lessons, go with them-obviously, you'll get closer, more focused attention from an instructor when enrolled in private yoga lessons.
This isn't to say that group lessons won't be beneficial-they will be!
Ask the person you speak to at the yoga studio you're interested in booking lessons at about what you need to bring to class.
Before committing to the lessons, be sure your schedule allows for you to take the time needed to learn yoga.
For instance, if your yoga lesson begins at 8am on a Saturday morning and you're someone who likes to sleep in on the weekends, find a studio that has lessons at a different time.
After you've taken lessons in the basics, talk to your instructor about your exercise goals, and which form of yoga might help you reach your goals quickly and successfully.
Do not attempt to enroll in an intermediate or excelled set of yoga lessons if you are a beginner!
In addition to your local yellow pages, you can also use the Internet to look for yoga lessons.
For example, if you have children who are just beginning to take lessons, you may be best served by starting them on an inexpensive Casio type electronic keyboard for the first year of lessons to see if they are likely to want to continue.
For example, if you simply want to introduce your toddler to the concept of a guitar--but not necessarily start up with lessons--then toy guitars are a viable option.
Although there are some children who seem to have a natural knack for learning how to play guitar on their own, you may want to spring for some type of lessons to accompany the guitar.
If you purchase the guitar at a music store you might be able to sign up for lessons right there, but you can also find package deals for children's guitars which include instructional books or DVDs.
If you're ready to go beyond arts and crafts lessons with your kids and into your own serious hobby, you might be asking yourself, "Now, where can I buy gemstone beads?"
There are additional costs to learning a new instrument, the biggest being lessons.
Almost anyone can head out in a motorboat on the weekend, but if you want to learn to sail, you'll need to take lessons and make sure you can control the boat so you aren't injured or so you don't drift out to sea.
I have enjoyed Ruthie's stories, and there are some great lessons and tips in them.
Printable coloring pages, word searches and even quizzes can help relay the lessons learned in these short Bible stories for young children.
As anyone who is familiar with the Bible knows, it's full of life lessons as well as some serious stories that children may not fully comprehend.
Bibles for kids seek to present timeless lessons and stories that they can comprehend and incorporate into their faith.
Another book for children ages 0 to 2 that teaches counting along with other valuable lessons is Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes.
For example, a person who likes to ski may earn points towards ski lift tickets, new ski clothing or equipment, or free lessons at a participating ski resort.
While it's natural to think of the negative consequences of divorce on children, it's also important to realize the positive life lessons this can provide.
Many people find that learning about co-parenting in a classroom environment with organized lessons gives more systematic results than engaging in general, informal discussions of the topic.
Each family has different beliefs and important values, and deciding which values are most important in your family structure will help you decide which lessons to share with your children.
Located in the mountains of Montana, the Sage Mountain Center includes on-site training, lessons and workshops.
Large cardboard boxes, wooden pallets and boxes, bubble wrap and other items of packaging are great for use in arts and craft lessons or drama.
Twelve lessons are given with supplemental assignments.
By allowing them to feel as though they have a say in what and how the room looks, you'll be empowering them, teaching them invaluable lessons about the decision-making process and giving them a sense of ownership in the process.
It is not as creative as being a make-up artist except that I love to design eyebrows or give personal make-up lessons on simple day to evening make-up.
Normally, at each makeup counter, there are consultants who are more than happy to provide makeover lessons to any potential customer.
Demos break these features down into small lessons, making the information easier to retain.
If you learn better from formal lessons, then consider signing up for a photo class or workshop.
What lessons have you learned from your ancestors that you wish to pass down to your own children?
Online learning is very flexible, so you can easily fit lessons around work and family responsibilities.
If you don't have reliable Internet access, it may be difficult to access the lessons as needed.
The lessons on photographing people, animals, holidays, and special events will be of particular interest to scrapbookers.
Classes are available as part of four or eight week sessions, with new illustrated lessons delivered every Wednesday.
Would you prefer short tutorials that can be viewed in less than 15 minutes or are longer lessons a better option?