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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... proper and full de- velopement of the understanding and conscience . Many pa- rents appear to think , that if they spare no expense in the ed- ucation of their children , if they place them at the schools in highest repute and which are ...
... proper and full de- velopement of the understanding and conscience . Many pa- rents appear to think , that if they spare no expense in the ed- ucation of their children , if they place them at the schools in highest repute and which are ...
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... proper to observe , that the progress of civilization , and the diffusion of useful knowledge among all classes , must operate to lessen the danger to be apprehended from this cause . The wonder is sometimes expressed , that Socrates ...
... proper to observe , that the progress of civilization , and the diffusion of useful knowledge among all classes , must operate to lessen the danger to be apprehended from this cause . The wonder is sometimes expressed , that Socrates ...
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... proper articulation and utterance , to quicken the sight and hearing , and to give more perfect training to the senses and the limbs , at an age at which comparatively nothing is done . 2. It is in infancy and early childhood that the ...
... proper articulation and utterance , to quicken the sight and hearing , and to give more perfect training to the senses and the limbs , at an age at which comparatively nothing is done . 2. It is in infancy and early childhood that the ...
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... proper foundation for the study of Natural Religion and their analogy with the revealed mani- festations of God's will . These are a subject suited to the ma- ture strength of the human mind . If a knowledge of the book of nature be of ...
... proper foundation for the study of Natural Religion and their analogy with the revealed mani- festations of God's will . These are a subject suited to the ma- ture strength of the human mind . If a knowledge of the book of nature be of ...
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... proper study for females , because of their defective morality . This is ad- mitted to be true of some of them , and those certainly ought not to be studied . It is not true of the select authors which are usually put into the hands of ...
... proper study for females , because of their defective morality . This is ad- mitted to be true of some of them , and those certainly ought not to be studied . It is not true of the select authors which are usually put into the hands of ...
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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.