American Education: Its Principles and Elements : Dedicated to the Teachers of the United StatesA.S. Barnes & Company, 1851 - Всего страниц: 330 |
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... improving from those who had discovered the best pattern of mind , to a nation of barbarian's , yet a people of inquirers . It polished their language till it became a model for all who would study the relation between words and things ...
... improving from those who had discovered the best pattern of mind , to a nation of barbarian's , yet a people of inquirers . It polished their language till it became a model for all who would study the relation between words and things ...
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... improvement . It is progres- sive , and never retrogrades . Aside from the light of Christianity , in what but this can we boast of supe- riority over the nations of antiquity ? If a defender of ancient systems were to be attacked ...
... improvement . It is progres- sive , and never retrogrades . Aside from the light of Christianity , in what but this can we boast of supe- riority over the nations of antiquity ? If a defender of ancient systems were to be attacked ...
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... man to be an intelligent being , capable of administering government - the subject of noble aspirations and of infinite improvement . And with this constitution of temporal and eternal freedom about him , 38 AMERICAN EDUCATION .
... man to be an intelligent being , capable of administering government - the subject of noble aspirations and of infinite improvement . And with this constitution of temporal and eternal freedom about him , 38 AMERICAN EDUCATION .
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... improvement ; and it is that we wish to perpetuate - and not merely columns of art , or volumes of learning , or passive sentiment . Original , vigorous thought is the sturdy oak ; while art and literature are the flowers and tendrils ...
... improvement ; and it is that we wish to perpetuate - and not merely columns of art , or volumes of learning , or passive sentiment . Original , vigorous thought is the sturdy oak ; while art and literature are the flowers and tendrils ...
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... improvement . The general mind is yet uninformed on the true relation existent between law - maker and law - subject , in a nation where every citizen is both ; and upon the correlative necessity of obeying as well as enacting wise laws ...
... improvement . The general mind is yet uninformed on the true relation existent between law - maker and law - subject , in a nation where every citizen is both ; and upon the correlative necessity of obeying as well as enacting wise laws ...
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Стр. 260 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Стр. 88 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Стр. 145 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Стр. 88 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Стр. 134 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Стр. 174 - Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples : and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Стр. 290 - And did not he make one ? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one ? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Стр. 232 - Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel placed ; His purple pinions opening to the sun, He raised his azure wand, and thus begun.
Стр. 223 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Стр. 280 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.