The American Journal of Education, Volume 2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 - Education |
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... Society ; in Philadelphia 1818 , Lancaster in 1821 , and Pitts- burg in 1828 ; in Boston , ' by the institution of Primary Schools in 1818 , of English High School in 1821 , and of a High School for girls in 1825 ; in Worcester in 1825 ...
... Society ; in Philadelphia 1818 , Lancaster in 1821 , and Pitts- burg in 1828 ; in Boston , ' by the institution of Primary Schools in 1818 , of English High School in 1821 , and of a High School for girls in 1825 ; in Worcester in 1825 ...
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... Hadley , as well as the earlier labors of Miss Pierce , at Litchfield , and Rev. Mr. Herrick , at New Haven , will not be forgotten . 1830 , and especially the formation of the Society for AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION . 21.
... Hadley , as well as the earlier labors of Miss Pierce , at Litchfield , and Rev. Mr. Herrick , at New Haven , will not be forgotten . 1830 , and especially the formation of the Society for AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION . 21.
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... society , embracing nearly fifty prominent active friends of education , in the professions , in practical life , and in the occu- pation of teaching . " The society here referred to was formed in consequence of invita- tions issued by ...
... society , embracing nearly fifty prominent active friends of education , in the professions , in practical life , and in the occu- pation of teaching . " The society here referred to was formed in consequence of invita- tions issued by ...
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... society in the business of visiting schools , report- ing on their condition , and making such suggestions as , in the circum- stances , might seem desirable , in the opinion of the several committees , acting in concert with the agent ...
... society in the business of visiting schools , report- ing on their condition , and making such suggestions as , in the circum- stances , might seem desirable , in the opinion of the several committees , acting in concert with the agent ...
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... society the lustre of a virtuous example , and becoming meet to be inheritors with the saints in light- and all in consequence of the direction which we have given to them in youth ? I ask again , what profession has any higher reward ...
... society the lustre of a virtuous example , and becoming meet to be inheritors with the saints in light- and all in consequence of the direction which we have given to them in youth ? I ask again , what profession has any higher reward ...
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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...