The British Annals of Education for ...: Being The Scholastic Quarterly Review, Volumes 1-2Sherwood & Boyer, 1844 - Education |
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... college or the academy . But when we consider that the present age is one essentially scientific , and that the education of the people of this country , from the highest to the lowest , will most assuredly com- prehend an extensive ...
... college or the academy . But when we consider that the present age is one essentially scientific , and that the education of the people of this country , from the highest to the lowest , will most assuredly com- prehend an extensive ...
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... colleges , to the Encyclopædia of Geography , as one of the best works on the subject that can engage their attention . The first part of this comprehensive volume treats of the history of geography , the origin and progress of the ...
... colleges , to the Encyclopædia of Geography , as one of the best works on the subject that can engage their attention . The first part of this comprehensive volume treats of the history of geography , the origin and progress of the ...
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... College Guide , or Liber Scholasticus : being an account of all the Fellowships , Scholarships , and Exhibitions ... college should be without it ; and as most of the subject - matter has been fur- nished by the venerable heads of houses ...
... College Guide , or Liber Scholasticus : being an account of all the Fellowships , Scholarships , and Exhibitions ... college should be without it ; and as most of the subject - matter has been fur- nished by the venerable heads of houses ...
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... Colleges and endowed grammar schools which come within the scope of the work , it may be relied upon as correct in all its more important features . We have in another place introduced from the volume an account of the University of ...
... Colleges and endowed grammar schools which come within the scope of the work , it may be relied upon as correct in all its more important features . We have in another place introduced from the volume an account of the University of ...
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Page 306 - Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded ; in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page 411 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief] trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures in very deed be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 411 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think...
Page 282 - And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him : and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Page 283 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 156 - If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
Page 411 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 283 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Page 209 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Page 306 - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.