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... never learn , " and what they " will learn , " and to see teachers using all manner of adroit flatteries and timid expostu- lations , with a view to obtain a slender influence over the pupils , leads one to look out anxiously for ulti ...
... never learn , " and what they " will learn , " and to see teachers using all manner of adroit flatteries and timid expostu- lations , with a view to obtain a slender influence over the pupils , leads one to look out anxiously for ulti ...
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... never passes unrequited on this side the Atlantic or on that - in the wilderness on this side the Jordan , or on the glorious shores of the Promised Land . CHAPTER III . THE COMMON SCHOOLS AND FREE ACADEMY . THE CHILDREN . 29.
... never passes unrequited on this side the Atlantic or on that - in the wilderness on this side the Jordan , or on the glorious shores of the Promised Land . CHAPTER III . THE COMMON SCHOOLS AND FREE ACADEMY . THE CHILDREN . 29.
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... never read any more , or at least read a little history so seldom , that the inspectors complain of reading not being culti- vated as an art , and say there is no reason why the pupils should not read as well as Miss Fanny Kemble , to ...
... never read any more , or at least read a little history so seldom , that the inspectors complain of reading not being culti- vated as an art , and say there is no reason why the pupils should not read as well as Miss Fanny Kemble , to ...
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... never more admired young countenances , than some of those that I have seen turned to beloved teachers , and stirred by the zeal , ambition , or animation of a favourite lesson . The education , if we except the classics , embraces a ...
... never more admired young countenances , than some of those that I have seen turned to beloved teachers , and stirred by the zeal , ambition , or animation of a favourite lesson . The education , if we except the classics , embraces a ...
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... never call it to help them , and even they think to do , or to be able to do , better without it than with it . They pretend that it has failed of its aim that it has not succeeded ; and they leave it on one side in the positive ...
... never call it to help them , and even they think to do , or to be able to do , better without it than with it . They pretend that it has failed of its aim that it has not succeeded ; and they leave it on one side in the positive ...
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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