American Annals of Education and Instruction, Volume 7

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Allen & Ticknor, 1837
 

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Página 422 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Página 234 - August of each year, the total number of children in the state between the ages of five and seventeen years, as shown by the latest reports of the county and city and county superintendents on file in his office.
Página 189 - Annual Report of the Trustees of the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind.
Página 166 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Página 11 - ... preserved a child-like character in this respect even to old age. It was probably this temperament, which led him to estimate at a low rate the importance of positive religious truth in the education of children, and to maintain that the mere habit of faith and love, if cultivated toward earthly friends and benefactors, would, of course, be transferred to our Heavenly Father, whenever his character should be exhibited to the mind of the child.
Página 137 - There should be a professor or professors, of piety, of irreproachable character and good education, and of tried ability and skill in teaching. 2. A library, not necessarily large, but well chosen, of books on subjects to be taught, and on the art of teaching. 3. School-rooms, well situated, and arranged, heated, ventilated, and furnished, in the manner best approved by experienced teachers. 4. A select apparatus of globes, maps, and other instruments most useful for illustration. 5. A situation...
Página 333 - NATURAL THEOLOGY ; or the Testimony of Nature to the Being, Perfections, and Government of God. By the Rev. HENRY FERGUS.
Página 12 - These circumstances, combined with the want of tact in reference to the affairs of common life, materially impaired his powers of usefulness as a practical instructor of youth. The rapid progress of his ideas rarely allowed...
Página 43 - Aye, for the honor of the thing, I had rather have it said of me, that I was, by choice, the humblest citizen of the state, making the best provision for the education of all its children, and that I had the heart to appreciate this blessing, than sit on a throne of ivory and gold, the monarch of an empire on which the sun never sets. Husbandmen, sow the seed of instruction in your sons and daughters
Página 375 - At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford in said State, on the first Wednesday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

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