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... natural capacity than the English , Swiss , Dutch or Germans , are still of the lowest class of workmen . Though they comprehend ... nature , have PART I. had a higher degree of order and arrangement PUBLIC ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION . 15.
... natural capacity than the English , Swiss , Dutch or Germans , are still of the lowest class of workmen . Though they comprehend ... nature , have PART I. had a higher degree of order and arrangement PUBLIC ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION . 15.
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... nature and experience dictate to older students when learning the alphabet of a new language , -the love of imitation peculiar to his age is gratified , and his imitative faculty is improved . His first efforts at learning are ...
... nature and experience dictate to older students when learning the alphabet of a new language , -the love of imitation peculiar to his age is gratified , and his imitative faculty is improved . His first efforts at learning are ...
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... natural reading — such as speaks the language of nature . It involves a participation of the spirit , and a reflection of the feelings of the author . It is absorbed in the subject ; it forgets manner ; and therefore speaks according to ...
... natural reading — such as speaks the language of nature . It involves a participation of the spirit , and a reflection of the feelings of the author . It is absorbed in the subject ; it forgets manner ; and therefore speaks according to ...
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... nature developes the intellect ; at first the senses merely of the infant are active ; they are employed in ... natural order of their simplicity : after which he is taught to combine them into letters , and then the letters into words ...
... nature developes the intellect ; at first the senses merely of the infant are active ; they are employed in ... natural order of their simplicity : after which he is taught to combine them into letters , and then the letters into words ...
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... nature , attract attention more readily , im- press the mind more deeply , and of course will be more accurately copied than those in writing . And when the eye has been trained to observe , to distin- guish , and to imitate , in the ...
... nature , attract attention more readily , im- press the mind more deeply , and of course will be more accurately copied than those in writing . And when the eye has been trained to observe , to distin- guish , and to imitate , in the ...
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Page 172 - I never saw a blow struck, I never heard a sharp rebuke given, I never saw a child in tears, nor arraigned at the teacher's bar for any alleged misconduct. On the contrary, the relation seemed to be one of duty first, and then affection, on the part of the teacher, — of affection first, and then duty, on the part of the scholar. The teacher's manner was better than parental, for it had a parent's tenderness and vigilance, without the foolish dotings or indulgences to which parental affection is...
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Page 189 - Modern History, containing the Rise and Progress of the Principal European Nations, their Political History, and the Changes in their Social Condition, with a History of the Colonies founded by Europeans. By W. COOKE TAYLOR, LL.D., of Trinity College, Dublin. Revised, with Additions on American History, by CS Henry, DD, Professor of History in the University of New- York. One handsome volume, 8vo, of 800 pages, $3,50. O...
Page 66 - ... to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth, committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity, and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues, which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...