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... expression . · Writing and the mode of teaching it Locke's directions VIII . THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE . Language long the staple of school instruction Reasons for this . Greek and Latin Purposes once served by the learning of Latin Some of ...
... expression . · Writing and the mode of teaching it Locke's directions VIII . THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE . Language long the staple of school instruction Reasons for this . Greek and Latin Purposes once served by the learning of Latin Some of ...
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... expression , to be learned by heart ? Undoubtedly there are . Let us look at them . ( 1 ) There are in arithmetic and in all the exact sciences certain formulae which are frequently in use , which have constantly to be referred to , and ...
... expression , to be learned by heart ? Undoubtedly there are . Let us look at them . ( 1 ) There are in arithmetic and in all the exact sciences certain formulae which are frequently in use , which have constantly to be referred to , and ...
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... expression , it is specially necessary that they should be applied with perfect accuracy , and we therefore do well ... expressions ; -a great and pregnant passage from Shakespeare , a few fervid and finished.
... expression , it is specially necessary that they should be applied with perfect accuracy , and we therefore do well ... expressions ; -a great and pregnant passage from Shakespeare , a few fervid and finished.
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... expression is learned by heart . ness . And , having once determined that this is worth doing , Thorough- see that it is thoroughly done . It is of no value to learn a thing by heart unless it is learned so thoroughly that it can be ...
... expression is learned by heart . ness . And , having once determined that this is worth doing , Thorough- see that it is thoroughly done . It is of no value to learn a thing by heart unless it is learned so thoroughly that it can be ...
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... expression for the area of a triangle in terms of its sides ? Yes . For these are cen- tral and most serviceable truths , constantly wanted in the solution of problems , and often wanted in a hurry . Will it be well to learn the ...
... expression for the area of a triangle in terms of its sides ? Yes . For these are cen- tral and most serviceable truths , constantly wanted in the solution of problems , and often wanted in a hurry . Will it be well to learn the ...
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Page 434 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Page 277 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 268 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest - — if indeed I go — For all my mind is clouded with a doubt — To the island- valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 3 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 276 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business...
Page 437 - The Pointed Prayer Book, being the Book of Common Prayer with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.