The British Annals of Education for ...: Being The Scholastic Quarterly Review, Volumes 1-2Sherwood & Boyer, 1844 - Education |
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... spirit of the age ; and , inasmuch as Education connects itself intimately with all human studies , this work will also bring before him a copious digest of LITERATURE , SCIENCE , and the FINE ARTS , from the transactions of Learned ...
... spirit of the age ; and , inasmuch as Education connects itself intimately with all human studies , this work will also bring before him a copious digest of LITERATURE , SCIENCE , and the FINE ARTS , from the transactions of Learned ...
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... spirit and vividness . A few happy strokes of the pencil will enable the most tardy imagination to fill up the space , and give life to the picture . The next kind of illustrations , that of shaded and coloured figures , for maps and ...
... spirit and vividness . A few happy strokes of the pencil will enable the most tardy imagination to fill up the space , and give life to the picture . The next kind of illustrations , that of shaded and coloured figures , for maps and ...
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... spirit of vulgar aristocracy , may have to do with it , ignorance is at the root of the evil and a parent's ignorance of the essentials of education cannot but facilitate the introduction of a lower class of instructors into the ...
... spirit of vulgar aristocracy , may have to do with it , ignorance is at the root of the evil and a parent's ignorance of the essentials of education cannot but facilitate the introduction of a lower class of instructors into the ...
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... spirit is an atmosphere of good cre- ated by its energies , and multiplied and sustained by its constant yearnings after the attainable perfection of our nature ; a life where the corporeal man and the spiritual man occupy each the ...
... spirit is an atmosphere of good cre- ated by its energies , and multiplied and sustained by its constant yearnings after the attainable perfection of our nature ; a life where the corporeal man and the spiritual man occupy each the ...
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... spirit may be incessantly fed , and those powerful ideas improved , which carry the convictions of an immortal nature through all hearts . They must have a school where missionaries of thought can be bred , who will spread in every ...
... spirit may be incessantly fed , and those powerful ideas improved , which carry the convictions of an immortal nature through all hearts . They must have a school where missionaries of thought can be bred , who will spread in every ...
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Page 306 - Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded ; in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page 411 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief] trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures in very deed be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 411 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think...
Page 282 - And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him : and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Page 283 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 156 - If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
Page 411 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 283 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Page 209 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Page 306 - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.