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... writing , drawing , arithmetic , & c . according to right method . II . At the age of approaching puberty ( about 14 ) we pass into a new sphere . At this age the boy tends to become boisterous , and the girl skittish . Our work now is ...
... writing , drawing , arithmetic , & c . according to right method . II . At the age of approaching puberty ( about 14 ) we pass into a new sphere . At this age the boy tends to become boisterous , and the girl skittish . Our work now is ...
Page 26
... write " Scottis , " for music 6s . 8d . and for Latin " only 13s . 4d . " Here also it is enacted that the children who are not sent to school shall pay the same fees as those who attend . Payments also out of the ses- sion funds on ...
... write " Scottis , " for music 6s . 8d . and for Latin " only 13s . 4d . " Here also it is enacted that the children who are not sent to school shall pay the same fees as those who attend . Payments also out of the ses- sion funds on ...
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... write . We have constantly had American education thrown in our teeth . It would seem to be ( except in the large centres ) a very hollow system . It is the spirit of the race and the peculiar conditions of America as a new country ...
... write . We have constantly had American education thrown in our teeth . It would seem to be ( except in the large centres ) a very hollow system . It is the spirit of the race and the peculiar conditions of America as a new country ...
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... write , speak , nor count , and are in absolute ignorance of geography in its com- mercial and industrial aspects . Looking to the names of the men who are agitating this question , we must assume that they know what they are talking ...
... write , speak , nor count , and are in absolute ignorance of geography in its com- mercial and industrial aspects . Looking to the names of the men who are agitating this question , we must assume that they know what they are talking ...
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... write accurately a simple letter , to parse ordinary sentences , to give a fair account of the general geography of the world , and to work sums in all the ordinary rules of arithmetic , to sing from notation , and to draw a little from ...
... write accurately a simple letter , to parse ordinary sentences , to give a fair account of the general geography of the world , and to work sums in all the ordinary rules of arithmetic , to sing from notation , and to draw a little from ...
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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...