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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... habit of thought . The materials are as vast and various as the visible creation and the events of providence can suggest . But the elements of the natural sciences must be communica- ted , the susceptibility of receiving agreeable ...
... habit of thought . The materials are as vast and various as the visible creation and the events of providence can suggest . But the elements of the natural sciences must be communica- ted , the susceptibility of receiving agreeable ...
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... habits and partly principles , and where the habit already exists , the principle is most easily im- planted . This is not the place to make a catalogue of the virtues ; it will be sufficient to make mention of a few of the most ...
... habits and partly principles , and where the habit already exists , the principle is most easily im- planted . This is not the place to make a catalogue of the virtues ; it will be sufficient to make mention of a few of the most ...
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... habits , which can be formed only by the influence of a gentle hand . Cheerfulness , too , a habit as well as a gift , I need not say how precious to its pos- sessor , may be gradually and imperceptibly created in early years by the ...
... habits , which can be formed only by the influence of a gentle hand . Cheerfulness , too , a habit as well as a gift , I need not say how precious to its pos- sessor , may be gradually and imperceptibly created in early years by the ...
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... habit of acting , and a medium by which to act . These are all equally indispensable . The accumula- tion of facts and conclusions , the acquisition of language , and the training of the faculties , form then the three leading 28 MR ...
... habit of acting , and a medium by which to act . These are all equally indispensable . The accumula- tion of facts and conclusions , the acquisition of language , and the training of the faculties , form then the three leading 28 MR ...
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... habits and taste . The effect of heat and cold and moisture , upon the system , the suitableness of various kinds of food , what is essential to the healthy action of the lungs and of the skin , the functions of the various organs , are ...
... habits and taste . The effect of heat and cold and moisture , upon the system , the suitableness of various kinds of food , what is essential to the healthy action of the lungs and of the skin , the functions of the various organs , are ...
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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.