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... direct in his last moments , that a cock should be sacrificed to Esculapi- us ; and that Lord Bacon , the father , or at least the res- torer of experimental science , should have lived and died in the popular belief of witchcraft and ...
... direct in his last moments , that a cock should be sacrificed to Esculapi- us ; and that Lord Bacon , the father , or at least the res- torer of experimental science , should have lived and died in the popular belief of witchcraft and ...
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... direct the attention , and to guard against false prejudices . The innumerable questions which a sensible child asks , demand an answer ; his mind turns , with intense earnestness , upon the objects spread about him upon the beautiful ...
... direct the attention , and to guard against false prejudices . The innumerable questions which a sensible child asks , demand an answer ; his mind turns , with intense earnestness , upon the objects spread about him upon the beautiful ...
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... direct tendency to form habits of concise , exact , and rapid reasoning . This study may be succeeded by geometry , an application of a similar process to a longer train of arguments . When the mind is sufficiently advanced to be ...
... direct tendency to form habits of concise , exact , and rapid reasoning . This study may be succeeded by geometry , an application of a similar process to a longer train of arguments . When the mind is sufficiently advanced to be ...
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... direct business to secure the progress of his pupils in the arts of reading , writing and calculation ; but we leave the affections and dispositions of the heart to grow as they will , and it is to be feared that the atmosphere of the ...
... direct business to secure the progress of his pupils in the arts of reading , writing and calculation ; but we leave the affections and dispositions of the heart to grow as they will , and it is to be feared that the atmosphere of the ...
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... direct attention in schools . Some one may contend that in the division of la- bor upon whose principles society acts , the school is for in- tellectual , and the pulpit for moral instruction . This question I shall not discuss . The ...
... direct attention in schools . Some one may contend that in the division of la- bor upon whose principles society acts , the school is for in- tellectual , and the pulpit for moral instruction . This question I shall not discuss . The ...
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Page 137 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 142 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Page 139 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 212 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 109 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes (as he expressed it), as what he felt did his skin ; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him.
Page 21 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more...
Page 110 - ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.
Page 67 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 288 - V DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 1. The President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice Presidents, or, in their absence, a President pro tempore, shall preside at the meetings of the Institute.
Page 34 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...