American Annals of Education, Հատոր 9Otis, Broaders and Company, 1839 |
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... lives prolonged to be a burden to themselves , and to that community which instead of sustaining them , so much needs to be sustained by them ? Since commencing the foregoing remarks , we have met , in the American Quarterly Register ...
... lives prolonged to be a burden to themselves , and to that community which instead of sustaining them , so much needs to be sustained by them ? Since commencing the foregoing remarks , we have met , in the American Quarterly Register ...
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... lives in seclusion . She is a widow , and in her loneli- ness and bereavement takes a melancholy pleasure in the most unremitting attention to the training of her child . So she watches every motion , forms artificially every habit ...
... lives in seclusion . She is a widow , and in her loneli- ness and bereavement takes a melancholy pleasure in the most unremitting attention to the training of her child . So she watches every motion , forms artificially every habit ...
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... live and die for the truth . A man , who rises above himself , looks from an eminence on nature and providence , on society and life . Thought expands as by a natural elasticity , when the pressure of selfishness is removed . The moral ...
... live and die for the truth . A man , who rises above himself , looks from an eminence on nature and providence , on society and life . Thought expands as by a natural elasticity , when the pressure of selfishness is removed . The moral ...
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... live in strict retirement . It was perhaps this retirement which saved him . With his decided and inflexible character , he would have been more exposed than most men to the fury of the tyrants , who op- pressed France . M. de Sacy ...
... live in strict retirement . It was perhaps this retirement which saved him . With his decided and inflexible character , he would have been more exposed than most men to the fury of the tyrants , who op- pressed France . M. de Sacy ...
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... plague , their praiseworthy and entire disregard of their own lives , have produced invaluable re- sults ; but it is especially the formation of the school at Abouzabel which gave a new era to medicine in Egypt Education in Egypt . 67.
... plague , their praiseworthy and entire disregard of their own lives , have produced invaluable re- sults ; but it is especially the formation of the school at Abouzabel which gave a new era to medicine in Egypt Education in Egypt . 67.
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Էջ 238 - 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 240 - 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 123 - Poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Էջ 31 - No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling, if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and...
Էջ 218 - 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 31 - 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 31 - 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 239 - 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 155 - 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 272 - That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, which shall be designated by the President of the United States, together with the one heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested in the legislature of the said state, to be appropriated solely to the use of such seminary by the said legislature.