Theory and Practice of Teaching, Or The Motives and Methods of Good School-keeping: To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of the Author

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A.S. Barnes & Company, 1859 - 358 páginas
 

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Página 156 - And he would not for a while. But afterward he said within himself; Though I fear not God, nor regard man ; Yet, because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her ; lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Página 283 - Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.
Página 125 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Página 136 - Scripture which announces that " to whom much is given, of him shall much be required" is violated, and he is rewarded for producing but little more than the one to whom little is given.
Página 3 - ... their main object being the inculcation of such practical views as would best promote the improvement of the teacher. In writing the matter out for the press, the same style, to considerable extent, has been retained, — as I have written with an aim at usefulness rather than rhetorical effect. If the term theory in the title suggests to any mind the bad sense sometimes conveyed by...
Página 123 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead...
Página 51 - I have devoted especial pains to learn, with some degree of numerical accuracy, how far the reading in our schools is an exercise of the mind in thinking and feeling, and how far it is a barren action of the organs of speech upon the atmosphere.
Página 51 - ... feelings intended by the author to be conveyed to and excited in the reader's mind, still rest in the author's intention, never having yet reached the place of their destination.
Página 259 - Where living Things, and Things inanimate, Do speak, at Heaven's command, to eye and ear, And speak to social Reason's inner sense, With inarticulate language.
Página 30 - The torch he quenches ; or to music wind Again the lyre-string from his touch that flew — But for the soul ! — oh ! tremble, and beware To lay rude hands upon God's mysteries there...

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