Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volume 2American Institute of Instruction, 1832 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... correct immediately the bad biasses it may from time to time receive from them . Our aim should be to form or alter the mind in respect to circum- stances , and not circumstances in respect to the mind . Human nature , they tell us , is ...
... correct immediately the bad biasses it may from time to time receive from them . Our aim should be to form or alter the mind in respect to circum- stances , and not circumstances in respect to the mind . Human nature , they tell us , is ...
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... correct principles and free institutions , who can despair of the pros- pects of the race , when we behold so many men , and so many women , of gifted minds , penetrated with a sense of the respon- sibilities of the office , and ...
... correct principles and free institutions , who can despair of the pros- pects of the race , when we behold so many men , and so many women , of gifted minds , penetrated with a sense of the respon- sibilities of the office , and ...
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... before I knew what they were to be . Proposed , That a committee be chosen out of the first class of composition , to correct the compositions of the second class , Mr. Abbott , Will you please to explain to us 60 MR . ABBOTT'S LECTURE .
... before I knew what they were to be . Proposed , That a committee be chosen out of the first class of composition , to correct the compositions of the second class , Mr. Abbott , Will you please to explain to us 60 MR . ABBOTT'S LECTURE .
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... correct the habit . Order . Selfishness . Flattery . Games and plays . Quarrelling . It will be at once perceived that the catalogue might be carried to any extent among the list of vices and virtues - of traits of character and ...
... correct the habit . Order . Selfishness . Flattery . Games and plays . Quarrelling . It will be at once perceived that the catalogue might be carried to any extent among the list of vices and virtues - of traits of character and ...
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... correct sentiments , liberal feelings , and useful know- ledge . It recognizes no distinctions , it creates none but those of intellectual and moral worth . Who does not perceive that at its weekly meetings society assumes a different ...
... correct sentiments , liberal feelings , and useful know- ledge . It recognizes no distinctions , it creates none but those of intellectual and moral worth . Who does not perceive that at its weekly meetings society assumes a different ...
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Page 71 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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 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 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.