The Massachusetts Teacher, Volumen16

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Mass. Teachers' Association, 1863
 

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Página 173 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Página 190 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Página 241 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Página 136 - Let the soldier be abroad if he will ; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad ; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Página 137 - once more the exulting Voice arose : "Thou art gone home! — from that divine repose Never to roam ! Never to say farewell, to weep in vain, To read of change, in eyes beloved, again — Thou art gone home...
Página 30 - ... themselves upon, and another to get cool under ; one shingly shore to play over, where they may be shallow, and foolish, and childlike ; and another steep shore, under which they can pause and purify themselves, and get their strength of waves fully together for due occasions.
Página 30 - All rivers, small or large, agree in one character, they like to lean a little on one side: they cannot bear to have their channels deepest in the middle, but will always, if they can, have one bank to sun themselves upon, and another to get cool under...
Página 311 - I consider this event as marking an era in the progress of education, — which, as we all know, is the progress of civilization, — on this western continent and throughout the world. It is the completion of the first Normal Schoolhouse ever erected in Massachusetts, — in the Union, — in this hemisphere. It belongs to that class of events which may happen once...
Página 31 - ... school, and a school of worshipers is called a congregation, and a congregation of engineers is called a corps, and a corps of robbers is called a band, and a band of locusts is called a swarm...
Página 298 - It is perfectly defined, as an apparatus representing an artificial eye, in which the images of external objects, received through a double convex glass, are exhibited distinctly, and in their negative colors, on a white surface placed on the focus of the glass within a darkened chamber.

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