The American Journal of Education, Volume 2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 |
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... Progress and Condition of Educational Improvement in the principal cities of the United States - where our American System of Public Instruction has received its fullest development , will be presented in a subsequent number of this ...
... Progress and Condition of Educational Improvement in the principal cities of the United States - where our American System of Public Instruction has received its fullest development , will be presented in a subsequent number of this ...
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... progress of yceums and the condition of common schools , and to acquire informa- tion as to the organization of infant schools , and the use of school and cheap scientific apparatus . " The meeting was called to order by Josiah Holbrook ...
... progress of yceums and the condition of common schools , and to acquire informa- tion as to the organization of infant schools , and the use of school and cheap scientific apparatus . " The meeting was called to order by Josiah Holbrook ...
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... Progress of Education for the last twenty - five years , by Francis Wayland Lecture II . The Prominence which should be given to Facts in Educa- tion , by Worthington Hooker . Lecture III The Claims of Classical Culture upon the atten ...
... Progress of Education for the last twenty - five years , by Francis Wayland Lecture II . The Prominence which should be given to Facts in Educa- tion , by Worthington Hooker . Lecture III The Claims of Classical Culture upon the atten ...
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... progress , the tolling of the bell summoned the minute men to assemble at the church for instant service . The moment the rite was concluded , he parted from his bride and friends and hastened to Rhode Island . He was permitted to ...
... progress , the tolling of the bell summoned the minute men to assemble at the church for instant service . The moment the rite was concluded , he parted from his bride and friends and hastened to Rhode Island . He was permitted to ...
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... 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 only of the importance to all the interests of trade of an equalized circulating ...
... 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 only of the importance to all the interests of trade of an equalized circulating ...
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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...