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... truth of the ancient truisms to see truly what is often concealed by the veil of words . Accordingly , I am not ashamed to utter truisms , and to reiterate that the formative power of the teacher is not in what he teaches , but in what ...
... truth of the ancient truisms to see truly what is often concealed by the veil of words . Accordingly , I am not ashamed to utter truisms , and to reiterate that the formative power of the teacher is not in what he teaches , but in what ...
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... truth of nature , and as active helpful beings endowed with sympathy , given to sacrifice , subject to duty , courteous in bearing - I say , if this be so , what a multitude of practical lessons for the teacher are implicit in such a ...
... truth of nature , and as active helpful beings endowed with sympathy , given to sacrifice , subject to duty , courteous in bearing - I say , if this be so , what a multitude of practical lessons for the teacher are implicit in such a ...
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... truths , so keenly practical is a principle , so penetrating are truisms . It is life that truly educates us ; it is the revelation to the young mind of moral and spiritual ideas in their prosaic , but fruitful , relations to the hard ...
... truths , so keenly practical is a principle , so penetrating are truisms . It is life that truly educates us ; it is the revelation to the young mind of moral and spiritual ideas in their prosaic , but fruitful , relations to the hard ...
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... truth the raw material which he has to shape to moral and spiritual ends . This outside life is also to be the inside life of the school . The teacher has to help the child to see , and understand , and to organise the impressions which ...
... truth the raw material which he has to shape to moral and spiritual ends . This outside life is also to be the inside life of the school . The teacher has to help the child to see , and understand , and to organise the impressions which ...
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... truth ; and both into contemners of the pure and good . Here the boy himself points the way to the teacher . Work is what he needs , and wants . Let him have it . Let him be brought to face difficulties in learning , and though some of ...
... truth ; and both into contemners of the pure and good . Here the boy himself points the way to the teacher . Work is what he needs , and wants . Let him have it . Let him be brought to face difficulties in learning , and though some of ...
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Page 9 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 135 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Page 121 - Thou on my head in early youth didst smile, And, though rebellious and perverse meanwhile, Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee. On to the close, O Lord, abide with me!
Page 134 - 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 5 - Aristotle. The Rhetoric. With a Commentary by the late EM COPE, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, revised and edited by JE SANDYS, MA, Fellow and Tutor of St John's College, and Public Orator. 3 Vols. Demy 8vo. 21*. Aristotle— IIEP1 *YXH2. Aristotle's Psychology, in Greek and English, with Introduction and Notes, by EDWIN WALLACE, MA, late Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Page 1 - 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.
Page 118 - The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Page 186 - ... 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 167 - 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 133 - The Lamb Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee, Gave thee life and bade thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little lamb, who made thee? Little lamb, I'll tell thee; Little lamb, I'll tell thee. He is called...