 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 страница
...— March 1755), were my useful studies, the foundation of all my future improvements. But every man who rises above the common level has received two...second, more personal and important, from himself. He will not, like the fanatics of the last age, define the moment of grace ; but he cannot forget the... | |
 | 1898
...condition through the gradual leavening process of education and culture. It has been said that every one who rises above the common level has received two educations, the first from his instructors, the second, the most personal and important, from himself. The education made possible... | |
 | 1909 - 584 страница
...it is probably correct to adduce a familiar maxim in description of Caird's experience : " Every man who rises above the common level has received two...second, more personal and important, from himself." At Glasgow, William Ramsay, professor of Latin, was a remarkable personality, a capital teacher, and... | |
 | William Winter - 1910 - 456 страница
...and the student of every class may derive a lesson from the lives most similar to his own. Every man who rises above the common level has received two...first from his teachers; the second^ more personal and more important, from himself. --GIBBON. The worst way in the world to win fame is to be too anxious... | |
 | William Winter - 1910 - 470 страница
...student of every class may derive a lesson from the lives most similar to his own. . . . Every man who rises above the common level has received two...first from his teachers; the second, more personal and more important, from himself. — GIBBON. The worst way in the world to win fame is to be too anxious... | |
 | 1871 - 712 страница
...gentlemen, the first article hits off the following paragraph : It is the remark of Gibbon that every man who rises above the common level has received two...second, more personal and important, from himself. Shaftesbury may be cited in confirmation of this theory, and he is also a striking instance of the... | |
 | Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - 1913 - 778 страница
...begins thus, under the head of "Educational extension" : "Gibbon, in his 'Memoirs,' says: 'Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations — the first from his teacher ; the second, more personal and important, from himself.' It is with this second education... | |
 | North Carolina Library Commission - 1915 - 40 страница
...Chairman. North Carolina Library Commission REPORT OF THE SECRETARY Gibbon says in his Memoirs, "Every man who rises above the common level has received two...second, more personal and important, from himself." It is with this second education, that which a man gives himself, that the North Carolina Library Commission... | |
 | Robert Mark Wenley - 1917 - 372 страница
...by tyranny a land of illustrious historical associations!" It has been well said, that " every man who rises above the common level has received two...second, more personal and important, from himself." This 'second education' preponderated with Morris. We have tried to analyze the 'first.' From now on,... | |
 | Ellen Hayes - 1923 - 248 страница
...futility of the new training suggested in this chapter. Gibbon, in his Memoirs, remarks : "Every man who rises above the common level has received two...second, more personal and important, from himself." As the methods of the schools stand to-day, one must depend on himself for unremitting training in... | |
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But every man who rises above the common level has received two educations : the first from his teachers ; the second, more personal and important, from himself. 
