Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volumen2American Institute of Instruction, 1832 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... ment , to be united with Manual Labor in the education of youth , as a means of forming and invigorating the body ? " After which the Institute adjourned , to meet at Chauncy Hall , at 7 o'clock in the evening , and resume the ...
... ment , to be united with Manual Labor in the education of youth , as a means of forming and invigorating the body ? " After which the Institute adjourned , to meet at Chauncy Hall , at 7 o'clock in the evening , and resume the ...
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... ment , as may not be generally known or practised : such communi- cations to be directed to the Recording Secretary , before the first day of August , 1832 , and by him to be submitted to the Directors . 2. Voted , That the members of ...
... ment , as may not be generally known or practised : such communi- cations to be directed to the Recording Secretary , before the first day of August , 1832 , and by him to be submitted to the Directors . 2. Voted , That the members of ...
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... should be deprived of the advanta- ges of this best of means of discipline . They , at least as much as we , have occasion for patience , correctness of judg- ment , and the power of long keeping a single DISCIPLINE OF THE MIND . 37.
... should be deprived of the advanta- ges of this best of means of discipline . They , at least as much as we , have occasion for patience , correctness of judg- ment , and the power of long keeping a single DISCIPLINE OF THE MIND . 37.
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American Institute of Instruction. ment , and the power of long keeping a single object in view , qualities which the study of geometry tends to mature . Who- ever will consider the unity of purpose and the firmness re- quired in the ...
American Institute of Instruction. ment , and the power of long keeping a single object in view , qualities which the study of geometry tends to mature . Who- ever will consider the unity of purpose and the firmness re- quired in the ...
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... ment ; and I have literally known a case where the simple question of going to bed , required a parental pleading of an hour , in which the mother's stores of rhetoric and logic were exhausted in vain . Teachers sometimes too , resolve ...
... ment ; and I have literally known a case where the simple question of going to bed , required a parental pleading of an hour , in which the mother's stores of rhetoric and logic were exhausted in vain . Teachers sometimes too , resolve ...
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Página 71 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 143 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Página 148 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Página 145 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Página 114 - One particular only, though it may appear trifling, I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask, but catching the cat, which he knew by feeling, he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down said, so puss, I shall know you another time.
Página 113 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes (as he expressed it), as what he felt did his skin ; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him.
Página 218 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 23 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more...
Página 114 - ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.
Página 179 - He was indeed, the parent of English verse, and the first that showed us our tongue had beauly and numbers in it.