American Education: Its Principles and Elements : Dedicated to the Teachers of the United StatesA.S. Barnes & Company, 1851 - 330 pages |
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... Egyptian to the Hindoo , from the Chinese to the Roman priesthood , have fol- lowed repetition ; and even at this hour , the mass of enlightened modern Europe prefer rule to principle , whether it CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY . 27.
... Egyptian to the Hindoo , from the Chinese to the Roman priesthood , have fol- lowed repetition ; and even at this hour , the mass of enlightened modern Europe prefer rule to principle , whether it CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY . 27.
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... Egypt , or India , or China , discover- ed the mere elements of mechanics , of astronomy , of written language ; but , about the same time , the people discovered they could be relieved from the troubles of conscience , by just imposing ...
... Egypt , or India , or China , discover- ed the mere elements of mechanics , of astronomy , of written language ; but , about the same time , the people discovered they could be relieved from the troubles of conscience , by just imposing ...
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... Egyptian king ; for we are informed that it took one hundred thousand men ten years to hew the stones , and twenty years to build the edifice ! And at last - sad lesson to the vanity of human greatness ! —he was not permitted to rest in ...
... Egyptian king ; for we are informed that it took one hundred thousand men ten years to hew the stones , and twenty years to build the edifice ! And at last - sad lesson to the vanity of human greatness ! —he was not permitted to rest in ...
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... Egypt , stand out from the sands of the desert , to point , not so much to the skill and power which erected them , as to the ut- ter obliteration of heart and mind which follows him who manacles the human intellect . But what have been ...
... Egypt , stand out from the sands of the desert , to point , not so much to the skill and power which erected them , as to the ut- ter obliteration of heart and mind which follows him who manacles the human intellect . But what have been ...
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... Egypt ? Did Newton make no discoveries , or add no principles to former systems ? Did Bacon learn his philosophy from Aris- totle ? Did Davy and Cuvier study chemistry and geology in ancient books ? Did Fulton build no other boat than ...
... Egypt ? Did Newton make no discoveries , or add no principles to former systems ? Did Bacon learn his philosophy from Aris- totle ? Did Davy and Cuvier study chemistry and geology in ancient books ? Did Fulton build no other boat than ...
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Page 135 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 145 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
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...
Page 203 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
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. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 232 - Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel...
Page 227 - Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
Page 100 - 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 223 - 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...