American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 28Office of American Journal of Education, 1878 - Education Vol. 17-24 include the circulars, reports and documents issued by the editor as commissioner of education (vol. 18 is the American year-book and register for 1869; v. 19, Special report on education in the District of Columbia). |
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... four numbers ( International Series ) , $ 4.00 ; Single number , $ 1.25 . INTERNATIONAL SERIES . The International Series of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION will consist of three volumes of at least 800 pages each - and will be ...
... four numbers ( International Series ) , $ 4.00 ; Single number , $ 1.25 . INTERNATIONAL SERIES . The International Series of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION will consist of three volumes of at least 800 pages each - and will be ...
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... four treatises on Latin , French , Italian , and Spanish Poetry , respectively , in 1663. Besides the ' Garden of Greek Roots ' which appeared in 1657 , and many volumes of translations from Phædrus , Pantus , Terence , Virgil , and ...
... four treatises on Latin , French , Italian , and Spanish Poetry , respectively , in 1663. Besides the ' Garden of Greek Roots ' which appeared in 1657 , and many volumes of translations from Phædrus , Pantus , Terence , Virgil , and ...
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... four parts , of which the three first , according to Racine , ' were composed in common , ' while the fourth is altogether Arnauld's . Most of the additions made after the publication of the first edition are due to Nicole . At the same ...
... four parts , of which the three first , according to Racine , ' were composed in common , ' while the fourth is altogether Arnauld's . Most of the additions made after the publication of the first edition are due to Nicole . At the same ...
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... four ; in Lent at four . He considered that his health and the work on which he was engaged exempted him from the obligation to rise in the middle of the night to say matins . Throughout the day he was exact in reciting all the offices ...
... four ; in Lent at four . He considered that his health and the work on which he was engaged exempted him from the obligation to rise in the middle of the night to say matins . Throughout the day he was exact in reciting all the offices ...
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... four ap- peared during the author's lifetime . The rest were edited by his faithful secretary and biographer , Tronchai . To this vast repository of the original title deeds of the Church , Gibbon resorted to fix the loose and scattered ...
... four ap- peared during the author's lifetime . The rest were edited by his faithful secretary and biographer , Tronchai . To this vast repository of the original title deeds of the Church , Gibbon resorted to fix the loose and scattered ...
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Page 602 - It was at Rome, on the 1 5 thp of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
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Page 482 - Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
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Page 302 - ... convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people; and by teaching the people themselves to know, and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burthens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of...
Page 308 - ... contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome ; for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away with local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would,...
Page 302 - To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways : by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people ; and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them ; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority...