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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... city ; its majestic elms ; its noble parks ; the spacious grounds of so many ... schools , more eminent men , literary , professional , and practical , than ... public instruction , and bring this State again , where she used to be , and ...
... city ; its majestic elms ; its noble parks ; the spacious grounds of so many ... schools , more eminent men , literary , professional , and practical , than ... public instruction , and bring this State again , where she used to be , and ...
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... schools , nor underrate their own priv- ilege of public service , in advancing the great cause of popular instruction . We would remind them that the weakest point in the whole system of American education ever has been , and still is ...
... schools , nor underrate their own priv- ilege of public service , in advancing the great cause of popular instruction . We would remind them that the weakest point in the whole system of American education ever has been , and still is ...
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... public schools . Let the schools deteriorate , and the fountains which supply the colleges will dry up . The influence of the common schools in discovering and developing the rich treasures of intellect most frequently found among the ...
... public schools . Let the schools deteriorate , and the fountains which supply the colleges will dry up . The influence of the common schools in discovering and developing the rich treasures of intellect most frequently found among the ...
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... schools , and , for two years after his graduation , Principal of the New London Union Academy . His views , original with himself , were formed from actual knowledge of the defects of public instruction . His normal - school plan ...
... schools , and , for two years after his graduation , Principal of the New London Union Academy . His views , original with himself , were formed from actual knowledge of the defects of public instruction . His normal - school plan ...
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... schools , besides the duties of a laborious professorship giving during the last year , twenty - eight days and nine lectures to the cause of common schools , with no reward save the gratitude of the teachers , the pupils , and the public ...
... schools , besides the duties of a laborious professorship giving during the last year , twenty - eight days and nine lectures to the cause of common schools , with no reward save the gratitude of the teachers , the pupils , and the public ...
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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?