American Education: Its Principles and Elements : Dedicated to the Teachers of the United StatesA.S. Barnes & Company, 1851 - 330 páginas |
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... tion , explained and illustrated . By CHARLES DAVIES , L. L. D. " One of the most remarkable books of the month , is The Logic and Utility of Mathematics , by Charles Davies , L. L. D. , ' published by Barnes & Co. It is not in- tended ...
... tion , explained and illustrated . By CHARLES DAVIES , L. L. D. " One of the most remarkable books of the month , is The Logic and Utility of Mathematics , by Charles Davies , L. L. D. , ' published by Barnes & Co. It is not in- tended ...
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... tion to what should be the elements of an American education ; or , in other words , what are the ideas connected with a republican and Christian education in this period of rapid de- velopment . I wished to turn the thoughts of those ...
... tion to what should be the elements of an American education ; or , in other words , what are the ideas connected with a republican and Christian education in this period of rapid de- velopment . I wished to turn the thoughts of those ...
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... tion , no matter what the representative may do , or what may be his character for integrity and intelligence . But very few think that freedom is a creature of checks and restraints , rather than of license and impulse . The American ...
... tion , no matter what the representative may do , or what may be his character for integrity and intelligence . But very few think that freedom is a creature of checks and restraints , rather than of license and impulse . The American ...
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... tion after nation , they added nothing to the family of Grecian or of Roman citizens . The conquered were left on the vast , dead level of slavery , or in the con- dition of tributaries to the wealth and strength of others . Such is the ...
... tion after nation , they added nothing to the family of Grecian or of Roman citizens . The conquered were left on the vast , dead level of slavery , or in the con- dition of tributaries to the wealth and strength of others . Such is the ...
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... tion of popular action to the new constitution of things . Nations , like individuals , are organized bodies . The state of anarchy is only a state of tran- sition ; never of permanent rest . And whether we regard a nation as subsisting ...
... tion of popular action to the new constitution of things . Nations , like individuals , are organized bodies . The state of anarchy is only a state of tran- sition ; never of permanent rest . And whether we regard a nation as subsisting ...
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American Education: Its Principles and Elements. Dedicated to the Teachers ... Edward Deering Mansfield Visualização integral - 1853 |
American Education: Its Principles and Elements : Dedicated to the Teachers ... Edward Deering Mansfield Visualização integral - 1851 |
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 88 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 134 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.