The American Journal of Education, Volume 2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 - Education |
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... present object and constitution , it originated in a Convention of Teachers and other friends of education , to the number of over two hundred , held at Columbian Hall , in Boston , on the 15th , 16th , 17th , and 18th of March , 1830 ...
... present object and constitution , it originated in a Convention of Teachers and other friends of education , to the number of over two hundred , held at Columbian Hall , in Boston , on the 15th , 16th , 17th , and 18th of March , 1830 ...
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... may come from a distance will probably wish to be present at both of these literary anniversaries , the committee have thought that the in ermediate 24 AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION . Constitution and Officers-1830.
... may come from a distance will probably wish to be present at both of these literary anniversaries , the committee have thought that the in ermediate 24 AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION . Constitution and Officers-1830.
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... present occasion , and that I am only able to offer for your consideration such re- flections as have been snatched ... present at any stated meeting of that Board . 5. For dishonorable or immoral conduct , a member may be dismissed from ...
... present occasion , and that I am only able to offer for your consideration such re- flections as have been snatched ... present at any stated meeting of that Board . 5. For dishonorable or immoral conduct , a member may be dismissed from ...
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... present at the annual meeting , provided two - thirds of the Directors , present at a stated meeting , shall agree to recommend the proposed alteration or amendment . The Committee had proposed to call the society The New England ...
... present at the annual meeting , provided two - thirds of the Directors , present at a stated meeting , shall agree to recommend the proposed alteration or amendment . The Committee had proposed to call the society The New England ...
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... present condition of the schools , in all parts of the coun- try . It will tend to render universal , so that it shall pervade every district and vil- lage , a strong conviction of the paramount national importance of preserving and ex ...
... present condition of the schools , in all parts of the coun- try . It will tend to render universal , so that it shall pervade every district and vil- lage , a strong conviction of the paramount national importance of preserving and ex ...
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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...