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... instruction , and omit them in favour of the showy or amusing . In this way only can I account for the listlessness or even the impatience that I have seen manifested in school examinations , when the subject is a solid branch of ...
... instruction , and omit them in favour of the showy or amusing . In this way only can I account for the listlessness or even the impatience that I have seen manifested in school examinations , when the subject is a solid branch of ...
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... instruction ; and it might be wise in the less- instructed parents to remain and see if they can learn something of what their children are acquiring . In no country shall we find more lovely examples of cheerful domestic union , or ...
... instruction ; and it might be wise in the less- instructed parents to remain and see if they can learn something of what their children are acquiring . In no country shall we find more lovely examples of cheerful domestic union , or ...
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... instruction than the United States - and , also , that the Eastern States have been surpassed by " no country in the world " in the extent and energy of their educational schemes . The knowledge which is reckoned necessary to every man ...
... instruction than the United States - and , also , that the Eastern States have been surpassed by " no country in the world " in the extent and energy of their educational schemes . The knowledge which is reckoned necessary to every man ...
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... school and judicial election . The result of this election is interesting , as shewing to which side the balance for ignorance or for instruction turns . There were votes for establishing THE COMMON SCHOOLS , ETC. 31.
... school and judicial election . The result of this election is interesting , as shewing to which side the balance for ignorance or for instruction turns . There were votes for establishing THE COMMON SCHOOLS , ETC. 31.
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Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. or for instruction turns . There were votes for establishing the Free Academy 19,404 , against it 3409 , giving the enormous and honourable majo- rity in favour of instruction of 15,995 — and thus the scheme went ...
Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. or for instruction turns . There were votes for establishing the Free Academy 19,404 , against it 3409 , giving the enormous and honourable majo- rity in favour of instruction of 15,995 — and thus the scheme went ...
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Page 118 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble;" but this ought to be, and might be, the experience of every praying heart, were it not for lurking unbelief. In some of our Scottish prayer-meetings, I have felt a degree of distraction of purpose, and want of
Page 79 - orphans, in their Asylum at New York— " Uncle Sam * is rich enough To give us all a farm." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its
Page 147 - shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth; Her place is now by another's side— Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!" Then was wheeled in a table with the mighty cake, which is as much a " chieftain" at an American as at a British wedding. From it the groomsmen procured their
Page 318 - Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him;" or, " That thou bear no sin for him." Let us turn from this desolate landscape, and gladly survey a new scene which begins to open