The American Journal of Education, Volume 2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 - Education |
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... authors on these themes ; in his correspondence at home and abroad , he must daily collect curious and new material for their further illustration ; and even among his personal friends , as his prospectus shows , is a body of very ...
... authors on these themes ; in his correspondence at home and abroad , he must daily collect curious and new material for their further illustration ; and even among his personal friends , as his prospectus shows , is a body of very ...
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... Author , who was an active and influential participator in the Educational Revival of Connecticut and Massachusetts from 1822 to 1845 , and was Princi- pal of the State Normal School at Lexington , in 1843 , has presented a rapid and ...
... Author , who was an active and influential participator in the Educational Revival of Connecticut and Massachusetts from 1822 to 1845 , and was Princi- pal of the State Normal School at Lexington , in 1843 , has presented a rapid and ...
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... authors , or cause them to be read , till the atten- tion be weary , or memory have it full fraught ; then with useful and generous labors , preserving the body's health and hardiness , to render lightsome , clear , and not lumpish ...
... authors , or cause them to be read , till the atten- tion be weary , or memory have it full fraught ; then with useful and generous labors , preserving the body's health and hardiness , to render lightsome , clear , and not lumpish ...
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... author . " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree Milton was the author of a Latin Grammar , a Treatise on Logic , and a Latin Lexicon . † This is the language of one of his pupils , who adds that such ...
... author . " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree Milton was the author of a Latin Grammar , a Treatise on Logic , and a Latin Lexicon . † This is the language of one of his pupils , who adds that such ...
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... authors , Greek and Latin , that were read in Aldergate street by youth between ten and fifteen or sixteen years of age . Those who tell or receive these stories should consider that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The ...
... authors , Greek and Latin , that were read in Aldergate street by youth between ten and fifteen or sixteen years of age . Those who tell or receive these stories should consider that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The ...
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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...