The American Journal of Education, Volumen2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 |
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... feel a deep interest in its prosperity , and especially in your academy ; an institution which my honored father labored so hard to bring into existence more than half a century ago , and to which I am indebted for what little education ...
... feel a deep interest in its prosperity , and especially in your academy ; an institution which my honored father labored so hard to bring into existence more than half a century ago , and to which I am indebted for what little education ...
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... feeling , always fresh and strong , increased both in tenderness and strength , as life waned , and he felt its end approaching . It was this feeling united with the clear obser- vation of the good already done , that produced the ...
... feeling , always fresh and strong , increased both in tenderness and strength , as life waned , and he felt its end approaching . It was this feeling united with the clear obser- vation of the good already done , that produced the ...
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... feel it below his posi- tion or his hopes to become a teacher , to compose school - books , and to employ his great abilities in pointing out " the right path of a virtu- ous and noble education , -laborious indeed at the first ascent ...
... feel it below his posi- tion or his hopes to become a teacher , to compose school - books , and to employ his great abilities in pointing out " the right path of a virtu- ous and noble education , -laborious indeed at the first ascent ...
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... feel the same persuasion now . Nor was I prompted to such exertions by the influence of ambition , by the lust of lucre or of praise ; it was only the conviction of duty and the feeling of patriotism , a disinterested passion for the ...
... feel the same persuasion now . Nor was I prompted to such exertions by the influence of ambition , by the lust of lucre or of praise ; it was only the conviction of duty and the feeling of patriotism , a disinterested passion for the ...
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... feel , with Wadsworth , that not only England , but our country , and the WORLD hath need of just such men at this crisis of affairs . Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour : The world hath need of thee . We are selfish men ...
... feel , with Wadsworth , that not only England , but our country , and the WORLD hath need of just such men at this crisis of affairs . Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour : The world hath need of thee . We are selfish men ...
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Página 465 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...