The English Journal of Education, Volume 6Darton and Clark, 1852 - Education |
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... young pupils . " It is the opinion of able writers , " he says , " that the grammar of a language can never be fully impressed upon the memory except in the act of parsing . " With this we quite agree ; but we cannot see of what use ...
... young pupils . " It is the opinion of able writers , " he says , " that the grammar of a language can never be fully impressed upon the memory except in the act of parsing . " With this we quite agree ; but we cannot see of what use ...
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... young children ; nor is it at all desirable that they should , for nothing is more ridiculous than to hear them babbling about science . It is quite sufficient , if they are taught those facts of descriptive geography which require no ...
... young children ; nor is it at all desirable that they should , for nothing is more ridiculous than to hear them babbling about science . It is quite sufficient , if they are taught those facts of descriptive geography which require no ...
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... young children to work a sum in simple subtraction correctly , when the figures of the lower line are greater in value than the cor- responding figures in the upper . Take for example 876-487 , generally written 876 487 389 The ...
... young children to work a sum in simple subtraction correctly , when the figures of the lower line are greater in value than the cor- responding figures in the upper . Take for example 876-487 , generally written 876 487 389 The ...
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... young men have acquired either from text - books or from their former instructors . In fact , I believe that nearly one - half of the time devoted to the grammar lessons is taken up in the correction of these errors , at least for the ...
... young men have acquired either from text - books or from their former instructors . In fact , I believe that nearly one - half of the time devoted to the grammar lessons is taken up in the correction of these errors , at least for the ...
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... young attorney and solicitor , is one which I feel to be of the utmost practical importance ; one in respect of which attention or negligence will be followed by beneficial , or vexatious and mischievous results , throughout his career ...
... young attorney and solicitor , is one which I feel to be of the utmost practical importance ; one in respect of which attention or negligence will be followed by beneficial , or vexatious and mischievous results , throughout his career ...
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Page 361 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 149 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 191 - To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts : as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness ; When your fathers tempted me : proved me, and saw my works. Forty years...
Page 237 - Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 36 - My good Child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the Commandments of God, and to serve him, without his special grace ; which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent prayer.
Page 362 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Page 363 - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Page 191 - Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said : It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways. Unto whom I sware in my wrath : that they should not enter into my rest.
Page 39 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 363 - That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. There is no danger to a man that knows What life and death is; there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law.