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... fact , that the great body of youth , from habits of inattention , want of industry , dislike to intense study , and wilfulness of temper , after spending several years at school or college , come out very little prepared to enter with ...
... fact , that the great body of youth , from habits of inattention , want of industry , dislike to intense study , and wilfulness of temper , after spending several years at school or college , come out very little prepared to enter with ...
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... fact it communicates , can be . understood . It is for this reason we assert our belief , that the books on this subject used in schools generally are of little value ; that students spend a large portion of time in treasuring in their ...
... fact it communicates , can be . understood . It is for this reason we assert our belief , that the books on this subject used in schools generally are of little value ; that students spend a large portion of time in treasuring in their ...
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... fact makes the English language so extensively desired by other nations , and soon it is likely to become the diplomatic and business language of the whole world . To sustain and illustrate this opinion , let us only consider how widely ...
... fact makes the English language so extensively desired by other nations , and soon it is likely to become the diplomatic and business language of the whole world . To sustain and illustrate this opinion , let us only consider how widely ...
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... facts . The Bible gives us the most pure , sublime , and rational conceptions of our Creator . It makes us acquainted with the very best system of cosmogony extant . It teaches us the origin and end of our being . It fixes the highest ...
... facts . The Bible gives us the most pure , sublime , and rational conceptions of our Creator . It makes us acquainted with the very best system of cosmogony extant . It teaches us the origin and end of our being . It fixes the highest ...
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... facts so splendid and so rare as these , no inference can be logically drawn , to combat the advantages of the study for which I am contending . These great minds felt the want of rules , themselves , and regretted the accidents that ...
... facts so splendid and so rare as these , no inference can be logically drawn , to combat the advantages of the study for which I am contending . These great minds felt the want of rules , themselves , and regretted the accidents that ...
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Transactions of the ... Annual Meeting of the Western Literary ..., Volym 6 Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1837 |
Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Western Literary ..., Volym 6 Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1837 |
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action agriculture ALEXANDER CAMPBELL ancient animal Aristotle Bible branch cause character child Christian Cicero Cincinnati College common schools comparative anatomy constitution cultivation D. L. TALBOTT DANIEL DRAKE duty English language enlightened evil examination excellence Executive Committee exercise existence faculties feel GEORGE WELLER give happiness heart Hence honor human mind important improvement influence institutions instruction instructors intel intellectual and moral intellectual powers interest knowledge language learning Lecture literary McGUFFEY means mechanical philosophy ment mental mental philosophy ministers of religion moral culture moral powers nations natural science nature novels object operations organs parents patriotism philosophy Phrenology points of inquiry practical present principles pupil reason religion religious S. H. MONTGOMERY SAMUEL LEWIS society spirit student talent taught teacher teaching things thought tion true truth universal Vice virtue whole wisdom young youth
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Sida 110 - Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the...
Sida 110 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Sida 175 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Sida 32 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Sida 104 - ... and art of education should furnish the mind with, and fasten there, and never cease till the young man had a true relish of it, and placed his strength, his glory, and his pleasure in it.
Sida 92 - Jerusalem, the mother of our new birth, is in all lands at once, fully and entirely, as a spirit ; in the East and in the West, in the North and in the South : that is, wherever her outward instruments are to be found.
Sida 175 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Sida 104 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Sida 104 - But under whose care soever a child is put to be taught, during the tender and flexible years of his life, this is certain, it should be one, who thinks. Latin and languages the least part of education...
Sida 48 - The squares of the periodic times of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the Sun.