American Annals of Education, Հատոր 9Otis, Broaders and Company, 1839 |
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... moral powers ; and if in doing this in the best manner , the avails of the labor of the student are of any value , he is fully entitled to them , to assist in defraying his expenses . But there is such a thing - and many young men have ...
... moral powers ; and if in doing this in the best manner , the avails of the labor of the student are of any value , he is fully entitled to them , to assist in defraying his expenses . But there is such a thing - and many young men have ...
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... moral and intellectual constitution of children assumes , under ex- isting circumstances at the present day , would be of great interest , and of great practical value to the teacher , as a guide in his efforts for the modification of ...
... moral and intellectual constitution of children assumes , under ex- isting circumstances at the present day , would be of great interest , and of great practical value to the teacher , as a guide in his efforts for the modification of ...
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... moral and philosophical es- says , we may safely say he has no living equal . As a pro- claimer of eloquent and quickening thoughts , we know not the writer in this department in the whole range of English literature , who can be justly ...
... moral and philosophical es- says , we may safely say he has no living equal . As a pro- claimer of eloquent and quickening thoughts , we know not the writer in this department in the whole range of English literature , who can be justly ...
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... morals to discern between the precious and the vile , by meditation and inward experience to apprehend the nature and to appreciate the worth of the great familiar principles of duty , and of moral action , which like the air and light ...
... morals to discern between the precious and the vile , by meditation and inward experience to apprehend the nature and to appreciate the worth of the great familiar principles of duty , and of moral action , which like the air and light ...
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... moral life over wealth and fame and learn- ing . We shall again and again recur to the subject of self - cul- ture , and endeavor to set forth its end , and principles and method , and may hereafter more fully review the positions taken ...
... moral life over wealth and fame and learn- ing . We shall again and again recur to the subject of self - cul- ture , and endeavor to set forth its end , and principles and method , and may hereafter more fully review the positions taken ...
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Էջ 246 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection...
Էջ 248 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Էջ 246 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Էջ 228 - Committee, for the consideration of all matters affecting the Education of the People. For the present it is thought advisable that this Board should consist of: The Lord President of the Council. The Lord Privy Seal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, and The Master of the Mint.
Էջ 39 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Էջ 39 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Էջ 247 - Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Էջ 169 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Էջ 251 - ... save an army by this frugal and expenseless means only ; and not let the healthy and stout bodies of young men rot away under him for want of this discipline ; which is a great pity, and no less a shame to the commander.
Էջ 253 - ... what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.