American Education: Its Principles and Elements : Dedicated to the Teachers of the United StatesA.S. Barnes & Company, 1851 - 330 pages |
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... glorious in the New Testa- ment , revealed through Christ . CHAPTER II . THE MEANS OF PERPETUATING CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY . " Add to your faith , virtue ; and to virtue , knowledge . " 2 Peter , ch . 1 , v . 5 . THE idea of a ...
... glorious in the New Testa- ment , revealed through Christ . CHAPTER II . THE MEANS OF PERPETUATING CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY . " Add to your faith , virtue ; and to virtue , knowledge . " 2 Peter , ch . 1 , v . 5 . THE idea of a ...
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... glorious faith . To illustrate this difference by obvious examples , take the separation of departments . The power to judge was never , it is believed , wholly separated from the power to legislate , or to execute , till our republic ...
... glorious faith . To illustrate this difference by obvious examples , take the separation of departments . The power to judge was never , it is believed , wholly separated from the power to legislate , or to execute , till our republic ...
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... glorious gift of God to man : to be permitted to seek it , a right guarantied by all institutions which do not seek to fetter soul as well as body . To seek it free as the mountain air - the very element of republics .. To seek it under ...
... glorious gift of God to man : to be permitted to seek it , a right guarantied by all institutions which do not seek to fetter soul as well as body . To seek it free as the mountain air - the very element of republics .. To seek it under ...
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... principle lying at the foundation of republics . The fathers of the republic , our glorious ancestry of Pilgrim memory and revolutionary fame , acknowl- edged and worshipped the God of the Bible , who CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY . 43.
... principle lying at the foundation of republics . The fathers of the republic , our glorious ancestry of Pilgrim memory and revolutionary fame , acknowl- edged and worshipped the God of the Bible , who CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY . 43.
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... glorious nation of antiquity , nor the greatest of modern days , that we are to imitate ; but that , on the contrary , there is no model for us . We are to be ourselves a model : we are a model . If America has presented any thing new ...
... glorious nation of antiquity , nor the greatest of modern days , that we are to imitate ; but that , on the contrary , there is no model for us . We are to be ourselves a model : we are a model . If America has presented any thing new ...
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Page 260 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 88 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Page 145 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Page 88 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Page 134 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Page 174 - Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples : and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Page 290 - And did not he make one ? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one ? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Page 232 - Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel placed ; His purple pinions opening to the sun, He raised his azure wand, and thus begun.
Page 223 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 280 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.