The American Journal of Education, Volume 2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 |
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... expression indicating the value of the examination . The only institution that I have any personal knowledge of , in the country where this has been introduced , is the Lawrence Scientific School . To a certain extent , I believe 90 ...
... expression indicating the value of the examination . The only institution that I have any personal knowledge of , in the country where this has been introduced , is the Lawrence Scientific School . To a certain extent , I believe 90 ...
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... expressions . Perhaps this is founded on a principle in the human mind , that may be deemed selfish - the bow ... expression of politeness or deference . And , however obsolete it may have become with a portion of our young people ...
... expressions . Perhaps this is founded on a principle in the human mind , that may be deemed selfish - the bow ... expression of politeness or deference . And , however obsolete it may have become with a portion of our young people ...
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... expression , certain privileges from our sex , which every right- minded man will be always ready most cheerfully to yield , but which he is not so willing to surrender at command . In our lecture - rooms , in public travelling ...
... expression , certain privileges from our sex , which every right- minded man will be always ready most cheerfully to yield , but which he is not so willing to surrender at command . In our lecture - rooms , in public travelling ...
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... expression , and fascinating in tone , among our accomplished women ; but still a false notion prevails with so many others , as to render it important to present the matter as I have done to your attention . There are few positions in ...
... expression , and fascinating in tone , among our accomplished women ; but still a false notion prevails with so many others , as to render it important to present the matter as I have done to your attention . There are few positions in ...
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... expression , as a function of man at the period of his maturity , the order , in the preceding classification , may be termed the normal or usual one . Man perceives , reflects , speaks . But in education , whether regarded as a natural ...
... expression , as a function of man at the period of his maturity , the order , in the preceding classification , may be termed the normal or usual one . Man perceives , reflects , speaks . But in education , whether regarded as a natural ...
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Page 465 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 409 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
Page 65 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 73 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 617 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 64 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 82 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed...
Page 75 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 59 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 60 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...