Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volumen8American Institute of Instruction, 1838 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... body , showing the insufficiency of the means now employed for the education of the teachers of the common schools , and praying that the legislature would do something to provide means for their better instruction . The memorial was ...
... body , showing the insufficiency of the means now employed for the education of the teachers of the common schools , and praying that the legislature would do something to provide means for their better instruction . The memorial was ...
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... body of the Legislature had honored with the first office within their gift , our prayer has been granted more fully than we had dared to ask or hope . Let us animate ourselves with the confident be- lief that all our exertions , made ...
... body of the Legislature had honored with the first office within their gift , our prayer has been granted more fully than we had dared to ask or hope . Let us animate ourselves with the confident be- lief that all our exertions , made ...
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... body . Little to benefit him- self or others . Like Columbus , Franklin or Laplace , he may employ his intellect in useful discoveries ; or like Hume , Voltaire and Paine , to curse the world . In either case , he may lead astray , and ...
... body . Little to benefit him- self or others . Like Columbus , Franklin or Laplace , he may employ his intellect in useful discoveries ; or like Hume , Voltaire and Paine , to curse the world . In either case , he may lead astray , and ...
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... body are among the number ; while bodily suffering , mental alienation and premature death are not unknown . Nor will these evils cease to be known and felt , till the influence of education extends to its ap- propriate sphere of the ...
... body are among the number ; while bodily suffering , mental alienation and premature death are not unknown . Nor will these evils cease to be known and felt , till the influence of education extends to its ap- propriate sphere of the ...
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... body and a sane mind , he must have pure affections a vir- tuous heart . And yet few only embrace the affections in their systems of education . They are willing to leave them untutored to the guidance of blind chance , or what is no ...
... body and a sane mind , he must have pure affections a vir- tuous heart . And yet few only embrace the affections in their systems of education . They are willing to leave them untutored to the guidance of blind chance , or what is no ...
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Página 116 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Página 222 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Página 137 - Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear...
Página 223 - The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines, that may draw nearer to another for all eternity, without a possibility of touching it : and can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to HIM, who Is the standard not only of perfection, but of happiness ! ADDISON.
Página 202 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Página 60 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Página 191 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Página 191 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been, In mockery of man's art...
Página 190 - Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue...
Página 122 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...