It is decided that you go to him at once, to take up your study of the humanities under his tutelage, and that you abide with him until you are of an age for ordination, which your mother hopes will be very soon.
I had come to Fifanti's house as a student of humanities and divinities; all that I had learnt there had been devilries culminating in this hour's work.
His most famous sentence "The Animosities are mortal, but theHumanities live for ever" is certainly noble.
But it would have been better if the Humanities had oftener choked the Animosities at their birth.
The simplest humanities are also the least costly, and the nearest home.
It is a doctrine that turns to ashes all thehumanities of life and all the hopes of mankind.
All the sweet humanities of life were trodden beneath the brutal foot of creed; and what did God do?
Vacation lasted only fifteen days for pupils in humanitiesand the higher grades; and only eight days or less for those in the lower classes.
Obstinately I tormented the blue depths with my scrutiny, sweeping them forever with my eyes, and searching them for one angelic face that might, perhaps, have permission to reveal itself for a moment.
But, generally, there will be quite enough in the answer to question A for establishing the value of any essay on its soundest basis.
And so we at last find, it seems, we find flowing in favor of the humanities the natural and necessary stream of things, which seemed against them when we started.
Geology, economics, mechanics, are humanities when taught with reference to the successive achievements of the geniuses to which these sciences owe their being.
The humanities had come in as a great feature of education with the Renaissance.
The scholars of the Old World were quite well aware that the New Learning was penetrating into the Western Hemisphere and were proud to think that the humanities were being cultivated beyond the Western ocean.
The feeding arrangements for the humanities on board were, if disagreeable, sufficiently amusing once in a way.
So far, then, as the testimony of anthropology carries weight, the Trojan fell from a high state of grace, and neolithic Man was quite as capable of the fair humanities as any modern Doctor of Divinity.
When the Comparative Method is applied in a wider and more catholic spirit than hitherto it will then--but not till then--be seen whether the fair humanities are exploded superstitions or are sufficiently alive to blossom in the dust.
These amusements of every-day life were always mingling themselves with the humanities of war.
And though there may be disputes and discussions about the immortality of the body or the soul, nobody can deny the immortality of genius, which ever remains as a bright and guiding star to the struggling humanities of succeeding ages.
Men learned in the humanities are of opinion that love is of four kinds, viz.
The ideal of the Humanitieswas the truth to Nature which was found in the thought-painters of the ancient world.
On this minute division of intellectual labor the exact sciences thrive, but conversation, poetry, art, and all that belongs to the humanities languish.
No wonder that the disciples of the older time cry:-- "What hope for the fine-nerved humanities That made earth gracious once with gentler arts?
He found all the fair humanities blooming in the lowliest hovel.
One can discern in his ample pictures what forms and humanitiespleased him; his delight in troops of friends, in large hospitality, in cheerful giving.
Whether this is visionary or not, it is no longer safe for those who cherish the humanities in education to rely upon the old impregnable position of Latin and Greek.
The humanities cast light on the broad issue of the role in a society of men and women of imagination and energy--those individuals who through their own example define "the spirit of the age," and in so doing move nations.
No, my friends, I go (always, other things being equal) for the man who inherits family traditions and the cumulative humanities of at least four or five generations.
It is as widely removed from the sweet humanities and unselfish benevolence of Christianity as the faith and practice of the East India Thug or the New Zealand cannibal.
It was by no means the education in the humanities and liberal arts with which the University was supposed to be providing him, but an education of a kind, it certainly was.
Already, before 1789, the classes in the humanities were generally completed by the lesson in philosophy.
The achievement of this new objective required a further extension of the compulsory education period to eight years and a relative deemphasis of the amount of class time allocated to the humanities and other purely academic subjects.
Students could select a course either in the humanities or in the natural sciences.
The humanities course included such subjects as the Romanian language, a modern language, Latin, history, psychology and logic, and the history of literature.
Christianity gives us Emmanuel, God with us, equally removed from the stern despotic omnipotence of the Semitic monotheism and the finite and imperfect humanities of Olympus.
All the Greek humanities are thus fulfilled in the ample faith of Christendom.
And how is it, lastly, with that opposite pole of religious thought which blossomed out in "the fair humanities of old religion" in the wonderful Hellenic mind?
Such severities joined with such humanities we find in the character of Moses, and such we find to have passed from his character into his laws.
