Notes of lessons on moral subjectsT. Nelson, 1883 - 216 pages |
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Notes of Lessons on Moral Subjects: A Handbook for Teachers in Elementary ... Frederick William Hackwood No preview available - 2016 |
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advanced classes Æneid anecdote Aristippus BAD HOME beauty become Blessings called Candour careless cause character Charity Cheerfulness child Cleanliness Condemn Contrast Courage Courtesy Crimean War Cyneas danger Definition duty Elihu Burritt Energy example exer exercised Explain feeling Frugality George Stephenson give grant Flower Gratitude habit hence Home Honour Hugh Miller human Illustrate impress Industry injustice instance Integrity Introduction James Watt Josiah Mason Justice kind labour Lesson Let the class lives Loyalty Magnanimity MATTER means ment METHOD Michael Faraday mind moral Nathaniel Cotton nature ness never noble Obedience offence one's parents Patience Patriotism Peace Perseverance person Peter Bell pleasure Precept Prudence Punctuality punishment purpose Pyrrhus quarrel Quote scholars Self-reliance Self-respect senior classes sometimes spirit Teach teacher Temperance thing thou thought Thrift tion true truth Unselfishness Vicar of Bray virtue word wrong Zeal
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Page 11 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 213 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
Page 187 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 213 - Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen; Make the house, where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean.
Page 66 - twas a famous victory. "My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly: So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 104 - A wondrous portal opened wide, As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed; And the piper advanced and the children followed; And when all were in, to the very last, The door in the mountain-side shut fast. Did I say all ? No! One was lame, And could not dance the whole of the way; And in...
Page 104 - But how the Mayor was on the rack, And the. wretched Council's bosoms beat, As the Piper turned from the High Street To where the Weser rolled its waters Right in the way of their sons and daughters! However he turned from South to West, And to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed, And after him the children pressed; Great was the joy in every breast.
Page 103 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, — Followed the Piper for their lives. From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished, Save one, who, stout as Julius Caesar, Swam across and lived to carry (As he, the manuscript...
Page 191 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 123 - Every person has two educations, — one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.