The School and the Schoolmaster: A Manual for the Use of Teachers, Employers, Trustees, Inspectors, &c., &c., of Common Schools. In Two Parts |
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... course of free and generous self - culture . In the Middle Ages , when education was dispensed in monastic establishments , and enjoyed , for the most part , only by the clergy , we are not to wonder that the people were in ignorance ...
... course of free and generous self - culture . In the Middle Ages , when education was dispensed in monastic establishments , and enjoyed , for the most part , only by the clergy , we are not to wonder that the people were in ignorance ...
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... course , was growing more and more necessary , the statute - books of that state show for a long period only a de- clining interest in schools . The salutary rigour of the primitive laws was gradually relaxed , till in 1789 it was ...
... course , was growing more and more necessary , the statute - books of that state show for a long period only a de- clining interest in schools . The salutary rigour of the primitive laws was gradually relaxed , till in 1789 it was ...
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... course of construction ; and already the ge- nial influence of the District School is enjoyed in unhappy Poland , in the dreary wastes of Siberia , and in the wild and inhospitable regions beyond Mount Caucasus . * Indeed , the time ...
... course of construction ; and already the ge- nial influence of the District School is enjoyed in unhappy Poland , in the dreary wastes of Siberia , and in the wild and inhospitable regions beyond Mount Caucasus . * Indeed , the time ...
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... course of physical and moral training , children exhibit , amid a general resem- blance in manners and principles , the greatest diversity in endowments and disposition . It is evidently not to be de- sired , that all men and women ...
... course of physical and moral training , children exhibit , amid a general resem- blance in manners and principles , the greatest diversity in endowments and disposition . It is evidently not to be de- sired , that all men and women ...
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... course a helpless stranger . To him , this universe is all a mighty maze , without a plan . He is a stranger alike to himself , to the world , and to God . But daily his faculties open ; his intellectual eye begins to turn towards the ...
... course a helpless stranger . To him , this universe is all a mighty maze , without a plan . He is a stranger alike to himself , to the world , and to God . But daily his faculties open ; his intellectual eye begins to turn towards the ...
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Page 18 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake : — 'tis true, this god did shake.
Page 329 - O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains . The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind with moral and religious truth...
Page 365 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 63 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious...
Page 74 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 94 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 12 - Therefore since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect, when it beginneth in young years : this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom.
Page 72 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 14 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 12 - For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.