Principles of Teaching, Or, The Normal School Manual: Containing Practical Suggestions on the Government and Instruction of ChildrenSunday-School Union, 1839 - 270 pages |
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... Feelings . - Power of Rebuke . — The Tones of Friendship . -Judicious Praise . - The Two Commanders . - Captain Basil Hall . - Leaders and Demagogues . - Uniformity.- Salzmann . - Joseph Lancaster . - Co - operation of Parents . New ...
... Feelings . - Power of Rebuke . — The Tones of Friendship . -Judicious Praise . - The Two Commanders . - Captain Basil Hall . - Leaders and Demagogues . - Uniformity.- Salzmann . - Joseph Lancaster . - Co - operation of Parents . New ...
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... feelings are not so obvious to the eye of the spec- tator , or so apt to receive his sympathy . I mean the teacher himself , who , stunned with the hum , and suffocated with the closeness of his school - room , has spent the whole day ...
... feelings are not so obvious to the eye of the spec- tator , or so apt to receive his sympathy . I mean the teacher himself , who , stunned with the hum , and suffocated with the closeness of his school - room , has spent the whole day ...
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... feelings are developed and exercised . He has emo- tions there into which " a stranger cannot enter . " His relationship to it , is distinct from that which belongs to any other locality . It is his own exclu- sive domain , the ...
... feelings are developed and exercised . He has emo- tions there into which " a stranger cannot enter . " His relationship to it , is distinct from that which belongs to any other locality . It is his own exclu- sive domain , the ...
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... feeling bordering on contempt ? 20. I have already observed ( 12 ) that children must be governed to a great extent in the same way as men are , viz . by the adaptation of plans to the [ fixed and uniform tendencies of human nature . At ...
... feeling bordering on contempt ? 20. I have already observed ( 12 ) that children must be governed to a great extent in the same way as men are , viz . by the adaptation of plans to the [ fixed and uniform tendencies of human nature . At ...
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... feeling her care , and the very greatest as not ex- empted from her power ; both angels and men , and creatures of what condition soever , though each in different sort and manner , yet all with uniform con- sent , admiring her as the ...
... feeling her care , and the very greatest as not ex- empted from her power ; both angels and men , and creatures of what condition soever , though each in different sort and manner , yet all with uniform con- sent , admiring her as the ...
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Page 246 - 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 8 - He paused, as if revolving in his soul Some weighty matter, then, with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, exclaimed — " 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...
Page 168 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 148 - I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Page 24 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 130 - He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is'? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.
Page 165 - Tis Nature's law That none, the meanest of created things, Of forms created the most vile and brute, The dullest or most noxious, should exist Divorced from good — a spirit and pulse of good, A life and soul, to every mode of being Inseparably linked.
Page 258 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 246 - 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.
Page 261 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.