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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... influence , hitherto unknown . The foundations of society at the South are broken up , and a 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 ...
... influence , hitherto unknown . The foundations of society at the South are broken up , and a 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 ...
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... influence each other . You may elevate the public schools by improving the colleges , no more surely than you improve the colleges by elevating the public schools . Let the schools deteriorate , and the fountains which supply the ...
... influence each other . You may elevate the public schools by improving the colleges , no more surely than you improve the colleges by elevating the public schools . Let the schools deteriorate , and the fountains which supply the ...
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... influence . This may seem , in a measure , to be contradictory to the statement that the object of studying Latin is not to learn Latin . He who knows Latin and Greek has in that knowl- edge valuable possessions . So far as the object ...
... influence . This may seem , in a measure , to be contradictory to the statement that the object of studying Latin is not to learn Latin . He who knows Latin and Greek has in that knowl- edge valuable possessions . So far as the object ...
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... influence . He can answer a question , but has no mental power . But the study of the Greek and Latin by the old methods secures , on the one hand , that accurate and definite knowledge ; and , on the other , it cultivates by a ...
... influence . He can answer a question , but has no mental power . But the study of the Greek and Latin by the old methods secures , on the one hand , that accurate and definite knowledge ; and , on the other , it cultivates by a ...
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... influence of demagogues , whether on the stump or in the press . When public questions are discussed , the appeal is too often made to some imme- diate effect of a measure , and not to its broader and more gen- eral aspect . Let young ...
... influence of demagogues , whether on the stump or in the press . When public questions are discussed , the appeal is too often made to some imme- diate effect of a measure , and not to its broader and more gen- eral aspect . Let young ...
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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?