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... less sensible of the responsibility which lies upon them of adapting methods to their own special circumstances and needs . I cannot regret , even though the book proves profoundly disappointing to those - if any such there be -who ...
... less sensible of the responsibility which lies upon them of adapting methods to their own special circumstances and needs . I cannot regret , even though the book proves profoundly disappointing to those - if any such there be -who ...
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... less real than would be incurred by those who in their zeal to vindicate the claims of Education to the name and character of a Science resolved it merely into a series of speculations into the relative value of different forms of human ...
... less real than would be incurred by those who in their zeal to vindicate the claims of Education to the name and character of a Science resolved it merely into a series of speculations into the relative value of different forms of human ...
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... less positively , and that your scholar who shews curious acuteness in discerning whether you are speaking from a full mind or not finds out the truth directly , and so your lesson is a failure ? And the moral of this is that if a ...
... less positively , and that your scholar who shews curious acuteness in discerning whether you are speaking from a full mind or not finds out the truth directly , and so your lesson is a failure ? And the moral of this is that if a ...
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... less surely acquire a dislike for knowledge , and arrive at the conclusion that it cannot be such a cheering and beautiful thing after all . It is well- known that the men and women most influential in the school - room are those who ...
... less surely acquire a dislike for knowledge , and arrive at the conclusion that it cannot be such a cheering and beautiful thing after all . It is well- known that the men and women most influential in the school - room are those who ...
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... less studies , than ourselves , and who , because of their own youth and ignorance , look up to us as prodigies of learning is very unfavourable to a perfectly just estimate of ourselves , and is calculated to make us put a higher value ...
... less studies , than ourselves , and who , because of their own youth and ignorance , look up to us as prodigies of learning is very unfavourable to a perfectly just estimate of ourselves , and is calculated to make us put a higher value ...
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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.
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