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... hand , and common schools on the other - the means by which they can be improved , in order that they may exert a greater and more salutary influence upon common schools . I. By employing permanent teachers , 186 - CONTENTS . ix.
... hand , and common schools on the other - the means by which they can be improved , in order that they may exert a greater and more salutary influence upon common schools . I. By employing permanent teachers , 186 - CONTENTS . ix.
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... greater importance , they set him a - thinking ; and besides , the thoughts which he re- ceives in this way , are his own , and not another's . It is true we can make the thoughts of other men our own by adopting them and acting on them ...
... greater importance , they set him a - thinking ; and besides , the thoughts which he re- ceives in this way , are his own , and not another's . It is true we can make the thoughts of other men our own by adopting them and acting on them ...
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... greater . Removed from the agitations of ambition and business , they constitute a larger and more important portion of her life . But she has a higher destiny ; she is to be a mother , and to form the heart , the character and the mind ...
... greater . Removed from the agitations of ambition and business , they constitute a larger and more important portion of her life . But she has a higher destiny ; she is to be a mother , and to form the heart , the character and the mind ...
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... greater part hereafter , of the busi- ness of instruction in schools , must be performed by females . Every thing indicates the natural adaptation of the female char- acter to this vocation . In the present constitution of society , it ...
... greater part hereafter , of the busi- ness of instruction in schools , must be performed by females . Every thing indicates the natural adaptation of the female char- acter to this vocation . In the present constitution of society , it ...
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... greater , even on the ground of economy of time . A few facts will make this apparent . The Latin language retains a characteristic of its mother Greek , in forming many words from a single root , by compo sition with other elementary ...
... greater , even on the ground of economy of time . A few facts will make this apparent . The Latin language retains a characteristic of its mother Greek , in forming many words from a single root , by compo sition with other elementary ...
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Page 218 - 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 143 - 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 148 - 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 145 - 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 114 - One particular only, though it may appear trifling, I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask, but catching the cat, which he knew by feeling, he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down said, so puss, I shall know you another time.
Page 113 - 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 71 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 23 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more...
Page 114 - ... 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 179 - He was indeed, the parent of English verse, and the first that showed us our tongue had beauly and numbers in it.