American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 8Office of American Journal of Education, 1860 - 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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... important . In truth , when we reflect what is man ; what powers lie within his nature ; to what excellence he can attain , we shall feel that nothing can be more unworthy than to waste his strength in effeminacy 14 MAN - HIS DIGNITY ...
... important . In truth , when we reflect what is man ; what powers lie within his nature ; to what excellence he can attain , we shall feel that nothing can be more unworthy than to waste his strength in effeminacy 14 MAN - HIS DIGNITY ...
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... important presupposition of pedagogy is , the living powers of the soul . These should not be forced . They must make themselves master little by little , of whatever they need to use or possess ; they must digest and obtain firm ...
... important presupposition of pedagogy is , the living powers of the soul . These should not be forced . They must make themselves master little by little , of whatever they need to use or possess ; they must digest and obtain firm ...
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... important how many books are read , but how valuable . In order to assist the weakness of children , they should often be spoken to in similitudes . We should endeavor to reform depraved wills . The mind should be drilled , as much as ...
... important how many books are read , but how valuable . In order to assist the weakness of children , they should often be spoken to in similitudes . We should endeavor to reform depraved wills . The mind should be drilled , as much as ...
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... important distinction between man and beast . As birds have born in them the capacity for flying , horses for drawing , and wild beasts their untamableness , so is the faculty of thinking peculiar to man . Although one man may possess ...
... important distinction between man and beast . As birds have born in them the capacity for flying , horses for drawing , and wild beasts their untamableness , so is the faculty of thinking peculiar to man . Although one man may possess ...
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... important part of instruction . From this proceeds actual knowledge ; what is perceived by the senses clings fastest in the memory ; for which reason pictures are to be recom- mended . Every art is learned by practice . The teacher must ...
... important part of instruction . From this proceeds actual knowledge ; what is perceived by the senses clings fastest in the memory ; for which reason pictures are to be recom- mended . Every art is learned by practice . The teacher must ...
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Page 285 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 378 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 465 - But was it such ? It was. Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown...
Page 378 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 285 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
Page 10 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 9 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him; and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 373 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them : and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Page 9 - And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 378 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.