The American Journal of Education, Volume 2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 |
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... influential participator in the Educational Revival of Connecticut and Massachusetts from 1822 to 1845 , and was ... influence in inducing other states to recognize the common or public schools as a part of their leading policy . t ...
... influential participator in the Educational Revival of Connecticut and Massachusetts from 1822 to 1845 , and was ... influence in inducing other states to recognize the common or public schools as a part of their leading policy . t ...
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... Influence of Academies and High Schools on Common Schools , by Wil- liam C. Fowler . Lecture VIII . Natural History as a Brauch of Common Education , by Cle ment Durgin . Prize Essay on School - Houses , by W. A. Alcott . VOL . III ...
... Influence of Academies and High Schools on Common Schools , by Wil- liam C. Fowler . Lecture VIII . Natural History as a Brauch of Common Education , by Cle ment Durgin . Prize Essay on School - Houses , by W. A. Alcott . VOL . III ...
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... Influence of the Social Relations in the West upon Professional Usefulness and Success , by Edward Wyman .. Appendix . Instruction in History , by Elizabeth P. Peabody . General Index , from 1830 to 1850. List of Members , Past and ...
... Influence of the Social Relations in the West upon Professional Usefulness and Success , by Edward Wyman .. Appendix . Instruction in History , by Elizabeth P. Peabody . General Index , from 1830 to 1850. List of Members , Past and ...
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... influence was felt , his en- ergies exerted in everything that concerned the social , moral , and religious improvement of the town . He was deacon of the First Congregational church in Groton for more than forty years . He was one of ...
... influence was felt , his en- ergies exerted in everything that concerned the social , moral , and religious improvement of the town . He was deacon of the First Congregational church in Groton for more than forty years . He was one of ...
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... influence and means , every enterprise that promised to promote the prosperity and progress of the com- munity . But as a merchant and a business man , the most signal point in his career , that which proves his clear discernment , not ...
... influence and means , every enterprise that promised to promote the prosperity and progress of the com- munity . But as a merchant and a business man , the most signal point in his career , that which proves his clear discernment , not ...
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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...