American Annals of Education, Հատոր 9Otis, Broaders and Company, 1839 |
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... sure , too , that I have much oftener had reason to repent of my precipitation in praise , than of my injustice in reproach . " - Reply to Combe , p . 20 . the profession of a divine , he would guide , Dr Parr's School at Stanmore . 15.
... sure , too , that I have much oftener had reason to repent of my precipitation in praise , than of my injustice in reproach . " - Reply to Combe , p . 20 . the profession of a divine , he would guide , Dr Parr's School at Stanmore . 15.
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... conducted exclusively by his mother . Whether he was over educated , or rendered pre- cocious , we are not told by his biographer , but from his slen- der and consumptive shape , there is great reason to 20 Labor and Study .
... conducted exclusively by his mother . Whether he was over educated , or rendered pre- cocious , we are not told by his biographer , but from his slen- der and consumptive shape , there is great reason to 20 Labor and Study .
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der and consumptive shape , there is great reason to fear that this was the case . His mother dying at this time , and his father when he was about ten or eleven , he was placed on a farm ; but disliking the employment , as boys of the ...
der and consumptive shape , there is great reason to fear that this was the case . His mother dying at this time , and his father when he was about ten or eleven , he was placed on a farm ; but disliking the employment , as boys of the ...
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... reason of the river that passeth therebie ; and thereto the Ile of Elie which is so neere at hand . Onlie wood is the chief want of such as studie there , wherefore this kind of provision is brought them either from Essex or other parts ...
... reason of the river that passeth therebie ; and thereto the Ile of Elie which is so neere at hand . Onlie wood is the chief want of such as studie there , wherefore this kind of provision is brought them either from Essex or other parts ...
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... reason the rich do so incroach upon them . And so farre hath this inconvenience spread it- selfe that it is in my time a hard matter for a poore mans child to come by a fellowship ( though he be never so good a scholer and worthie that ...
... reason the rich do so incroach upon them . And so farre hath this inconvenience spread it- selfe that it is in my time a hard matter for a poore mans child to come by a fellowship ( though he be never so good a scholer and worthie that ...
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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.