American Annals of Education, Bind 9Otis, Broaders and Company, 1839 |
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... nature and from appli . cation was very capacious . In reading a Greek or Latin author , a stream of illustration issued from him . When we were up at Virgil with him , he thundered out , ore rotundo , all the passages which the poet ...
... nature and from appli . cation was very capacious . In reading a Greek or Latin author , a stream of illustration issued from him . When we were up at Virgil with him , he thundered out , ore rotundo , all the passages which the poet ...
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... nature , especially when combined with the higher talents which exalt it , are , in every form , a most pleasing object of contemplation ; and it well deserves distinct and honorable mention , that , with some sternness of authority as ...
... nature , especially when combined with the higher talents which exalt it , are , in every form , a most pleasing object of contemplation ; and it well deserves distinct and honorable mention , that , with some sternness of authority as ...
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... nature of the plant , which the horticulturist can neither un- derstand or control . Whenever a new variety of fruit appears , which exhibits such natural qualities as are desired , the individual , thus favored by nature , is ...
... nature of the plant , which the horticulturist can neither un- derstand or control . Whenever a new variety of fruit appears , which exhibits such natural qualities as are desired , the individual , thus favored by nature , is ...
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... nature , alike , —having the same capacities , the same powers , the same propensities and tendencies , and in the same measure , such a monotony would stand out as a strange exception to the whole econ- omy of nature . 2. Then , fact ...
... nature , alike , —having the same capacities , the same powers , the same propensities and tendencies , and in the same measure , such a monotony would stand out as a strange exception to the whole econ- omy of nature . 2. Then , fact ...
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... nature ; but then , when he forgets again and again , and we have to repeat our explanation of the order in which he divides , multiplies , subtracts , and brings down , four , five , or six times , our voice gradually as- sumes the ...
... nature ; but then , when he forgets again and again , and we have to repeat our explanation of the order in which he divides , multiplies , subtracts , and brings down , four , five , or six times , our voice gradually as- sumes the ...
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Side 246 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection...
Side 248 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Side 246 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Side 228 - Committee, for the consideration of all matters affecting the Education of the People. For the present it is thought advisable that this Board should consist of: The Lord President of the Council. The Lord Privy Seal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, and The Master of the Mint.
Side 39 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Side 39 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Side 247 - Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Side 169 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Side 251 - ... save an army by this frugal and expenseless means only ; and not let the healthy and stout bodies of young men rot away under him for want of this discipline ; which is a great pity, and no less a shame to the commander.
Side 253 - ... what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.