Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings ..., Том 36American Institute of Instruction, 1866 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... better ground - work is to be laid for the social fabric . Old ideas and prejudices are to be buried with the ruins of the slave system out of which they grew . Glorious achievements may yet be made , and new fields won . A race is to ...
... better ground - work is to be laid for the social fabric . Old ideas and prejudices are to be buried with the ruins of the slave system out of which they grew . Glorious achievements may yet be made , and new fields won . A race is to ...
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... better the man the better the soldier . The highest men- tal and moral discipline steadies the nerves and strengthens the muscles for the conflict of arms . " Scholars as free , as debonair , unarmed As bending angels , that's their ...
... better the man the better the soldier . The highest men- tal and moral discipline steadies the nerves and strengthens the muscles for the conflict of arms . " Scholars as free , as debonair , unarmed As bending angels , that's their ...
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... better the character of the Revolutionary patriots , as well as of the traitors of the late Rebellion ; what it cost to establish our government ; and well they know what priceless treasures , the lives of their fathers and brothers ...
... better the character of the Revolutionary patriots , as well as of the traitors of the late Rebellion ; what it cost to establish our government ; and well they know what priceless treasures , the lives of their fathers and brothers ...
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... better public sentiment , a more intelligent apprecia- tion of the school as the nursery of the Republic , the cheapest defence of the nation ; by the erection of improved and often costly school - houses , and the introduction of better ...
... better public sentiment , a more intelligent apprecia- tion of the school as the nursery of the Republic , the cheapest defence of the nation ; by the erection of improved and often costly school - houses , and the introduction of better ...
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... better . But the dervise made a practical use of the fact that he saw the ants busy upon the corn , and the flies upon the honey , without stopping to inquire why their tastes were not reversed . I give , therefore , a 24 JOURNAL OF ...
... better . But the dervise made a practical use of the fact that he saw the ants busy upon the corn , and the flies upon the honey , without stopping to inquire why their tastes were not reversed . I give , therefore , a 24 JOURNAL OF ...
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Страница 132 - ... virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Страница 252 - It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands,— Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands. Then comes a mightier silence, stern and strong, As of a world left empty of its throng, And the void weighs on us;...
Страница 132 - ... the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity, and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Страница 19 - I knew that the animal was blind in one eye, because it had cropped the herbage only on one side of its path ; and I perceived that it was lame in one leg from the faint impression which that particular foot had produced upon the sand ; I concluded that the animal had lost one tooth, because, wherever it had grazed, a small tuft of herbage had been left uninjured in the centre of its bite.
Страница 208 - Dynamics in man's fortunes and nature, as well as of Mechanics. There is a science which treats of, and practically addresses, the primary, unmodified forces and energies of man, the mysterious springs of Love, and Fear, and Wonder, of Enthusiasm, Poetry, Religion, all which have a truly vital and infinite character; as well as a science which practically addresses the finite, modified developments of these, when they take the shape of immediate 'motives,' as hope of reward, or as fear of punishment.
Страница 132 - ... their country, humanity and universal benevolence ; sobriety, industry, and frugality ; chastity, moderation and temperance; and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded ; and...
Страница 208 - To speak a little pedantically, there is a science of Dynamics in man's fortunes and nature, as well as of Mechanics. There is a science which treats of, and practically addresses, the primary, unmodified forces and energies of man, the mysterious springs of Love, and Fear, and Wonder, of Enthusiasm, Poetry, Religion...
Страница 18 - You have lost a camel,' said he to the merchants. ' Indeed we have,' they replied. ' Was he not blind in his right eye, and lame in his left leg ? ' said the dervise. ' He was,
Страница 18 - Most certainly he was,' they replied ; ' and as you have seen him so lately, and marked him so particularly, you can, in all probability, conduct us unto him.' ' My friends,' said the dervise, ' I have never seen your camel, nor ever heard of him but from you.' ' A pretty story, truly,' said the merchants ; ' but where are the jewels which formed a part of his cargo ? ' 'I have neither seen your camel nor your jewels,
Страница 18 - He was,' replied the merchants. ' Had he not lost a front tooth ? ' said the dervise. ' He had,' rejoined the merchants. ' And was he not loaded with honey on one side, and wheat on the other?