The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 218A. Constable, 1913 |
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... give higher education . The Board of Education Act , 1899 , created the present Board , with power over secondary as well as elementary education , and the Education Act , 1902 , substituted 328 local education authorities for the 3500 ...
... give higher education . The Board of Education Act , 1899 , created the present Board , with power over secondary as well as elementary education , and the Education Act , 1902 , substituted 328 local education authorities for the 3500 ...
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... give this minimum . The educational system that ends with the end of school classes has not justified its existence ... gives an outfit for life - is to be secured . The amazing ignorance of those who talk and write of the economic ...
... give this minimum . The educational system that ends with the end of school classes has not justified its existence ... gives an outfit for life - is to be secured . The amazing ignorance of those who talk and write of the economic ...
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... give advantages to less public- spirited neighbours . The reluctance of local education autho- rities to use permissive powers seems to show , as the above- named writers say , ' the natural lines upon which reform should ' progress ...
... give advantages to less public- spirited neighbours . The reluctance of local education autho- rities to use permissive powers seems to show , as the above- named writers say , ' the natural lines upon which reform should ' progress ...
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... give secondary education in the higher classes . The fault is not theirs , but that of a system that has deliberately trained a vast army of teachers not to give secondary teaching , while it has allowed the secondary schools to be ...
... give secondary education in the higher classes . The fault is not theirs , but that of a system that has deliberately trained a vast army of teachers not to give secondary teaching , while it has allowed the secondary schools to be ...
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... gives reform an urgency that will scarcely be neglected by any government that relies on a democratic vote . But perhaps the most hopeful signs to - day are the marvellous re - awakening of voluntary effort and the determination to be ...
... gives reform an urgency that will scarcely be neglected by any government that relies on a democratic vote . But perhaps the most hopeful signs to - day are the marvellous re - awakening of voluntary effort and the determination to be ...
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Page 283 - old decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of ' fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, ' and persons of quality : do you think that the spirits of such ' base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentle' men that have honour and courage and resolution in them
Page 31 - It is good also not to try experiments in States except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident : and well to beware that it be the reformation which draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation ; and lastly that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a
Page 114 - of translation.' ' It were as wise [he said] to cast a violet ' into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle ' of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language ' into another the creations of a poet.
Page 269 - E se ben ti ricordi, e vedi lume, Vedrai te simigliante a quella inferma, Che non può trovar posa in su le piume. Ma con dar volta suo dolore scherma.
Page 206 - of the Democratic party that the federal government has ' no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, ' except for the purposes of revenue only,' and although the Republicans ' reaffirmed the American doctrine of
Page 121 - Aurengzebe ' embody the idea of Macedonius in epigrammatic and felicitous verse : ' Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow's falser than the former day.
Page 116 - And thou, dost thou disdain to yield thy breath, Whose very life is little more than death ? More than one-half by lazy sleep possest, And when awake, thy soul but nods at best, Day-dreams and sickly thoughts revolving in thy breast. Eternal troubles haunt thy anxious mind, Whose cause and
Page 202 - : ' Brief, on a flying night, From the shaken tower, A flock of bells take flight. And go with the hour. ' Like birds from the cote to the gales, Abrupt—O hark ! A fleet of bells set sails, And go with the dark. ' Sudden the cold airs swing. Alone, aloud, A verse of bells takes wing And flies with the cloud.
Page 118 - To cite another case, the following lines of ' Paradise Lost ' may be compared with the treatment accorded by Euripides to the same subject : 'Oh, why did God Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men as Angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 365 - it. Sir, as you would a guinea, into small coin ?—which done—let the father of confusion puzzle you if he can ; or put a different idea either into your head, or your reader's head, if he knows how.