The American Journal of Education, Volume 2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 - Education |
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... Early Latin Accentuation .... Remains of Ancient Gender in English .. Preteritive Verbs in English ... XV . BOSTON CITY LIBRARY . By George S. Hillard .... XVI . MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES . Edwards ' Hand Book of Libraries ... .198 ...
... Early Latin Accentuation .... Remains of Ancient Gender in English .. Preteritive Verbs in English ... XV . BOSTON CITY LIBRARY . By George S. Hillard .... XVI . MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES . Edwards ' Hand Book of Libraries ... .198 ...
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... earliest opportunity to record its origin and history , and spread before our readers some evi- dence of its usefulness in the wide range of topics ably presented at its annual meetings , and embodied in a permanent form in the printed ...
... earliest opportunity to record its origin and history , and spread before our readers some evi- dence of its usefulness in the wide range of topics ably presented at its annual meetings , and embodied in a permanent form in the printed ...
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... Early Education , as deduced from Experience , by A. B. Alcott . Lecture VII . On Teaching Grammar and Composition , by Asa Rand . VOL . IV , for 1833. - Introductory Lecture , by William Sullivan . Lecture I. On the Impor tance of a ...
... Early Education , as deduced from Experience , by A. B. Alcott . Lecture VII . On Teaching Grammar and Composition , by Asa Rand . VOL . IV , for 1833. - Introductory Lecture , by William Sullivan . Lecture I. On the Impor tance of a ...
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... Early Training , by Solomon Jenner . Lecture IV . Characteristics of the True Teacher , by John D. Phil brick . Lecture V. Influence of the Social Relations in the West upon Professional Usefulness and Success , by Edward Wyman ...
... Early Training , by Solomon Jenner . Lecture IV . Characteristics of the True Teacher , by John D. Phil brick . Lecture V. Influence of the Social Relations in the West upon Professional Usefulness and Success , by Edward Wyman ...
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... early manhood , when our revo- lutionary struggle commenced . In common with all the hardy , intel- ligent , liberty - loving yeomanry of New England , he espoused the cause of the colonies , and devoted himself to it with a courage ...
... early manhood , when our revo- lutionary struggle commenced . In common with all the hardy , intel- ligent , liberty - loving yeomanry of New England , he espoused the cause of the colonies , and devoted himself to it with a courage ...
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Page 465 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 409 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
Page 65 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 73 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 617 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 64 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 82 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed...
Page 75 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 59 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 60 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...