Ohio Educational Monthly, Том 4

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1855
 

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Страница 37 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, signed by the president and secretary, be forwarded to the family of the deceased.
Страница 197 - The general assembly shall make such provisions, by taxation or otherwise, as, with the income arising from the school trust fund, will secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state...
Страница 118 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave, Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.
Страница 30 - To buy a pen or a sheet of paper I was compelled to forego some portion of food, though in a state of half-starvation.
Страница 171 - I never saw such an idle boy ; take a book or employ yourself usefully ; for the last hour you have not spoken one word, but taken off the lid of that kettle and put it on again, holding now a cup and now a silver spoon over the steam, watching how it rises from the spout, and catching and connecting the drops of hot water. Are you not ashamed of spending your time in this way?
Страница 368 - ... it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and that I would at this moment give half the reputation I have had the good fortune to acquire, if by doing so I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation of learning and science.
Страница 319 - They may talk as they will of the dead languages. Our auxiliary verbs give us a power which the ancients, with all their varieties of mood, and inflections of tense, never could attain.
Страница 312 - ... constant terror of death. If you think it right to differ from the times, 'and to make a stand for any valuable point of morals, do it, however rustic, however antiquated, however pedantic it may appear; — do it, not for insolence, but seriously and grandly, — as a man who wore a soul of his own in his bosom, and did not wait till it was breathed into him by the breath of fashion.
Страница 312 - Like flakes of snow that fall unperceived upon the earth, the seemingly unimportant events of life succeed one another. As the snow gathers together, so are our habits formed. No single flake that is added to the pile produces a sensible change ; no single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man's character ; but, as the tempest hurls the avalanche down the mountain, and overwhelms the inhabitant and his habitation, so passion, acting upon the elements of mischief, which pernicious habits have...
Страница 220 - ... days after their election, shall take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of Ohio, and faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of their office; which said oath the Directors are authorized to administer to each other. And in case a vacancy shall occur in the office of Director, by death, resignation, refusal to serve, or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the township Clerk to fill such vacancy within ten days after being informed...

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