American Education: Its Principles and Elements : Dedicated to the Teachers of the United StatesA.S. Barnes & Company, 1851 - 330 pages |
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... fact , that it was the entire soul , in all its facul- ties , which needed education , and not any one of its talents ; and that this was a need espe- cially of our country and times . To do this , requires a complete discipline of mind ...
... fact , that it was the entire soul , in all its facul- ties , which needed education , and not any one of its talents ; and that this was a need espe- cially of our country and times . To do this , requires a complete discipline of mind ...
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... facts , or the cultivation of taste , the arts , and the imagination , thinking can be taught only by something which excites inquiry , and still leaves something to be discovered . Nothing has done this more successfully , either in ...
... facts , or the cultivation of taste , the arts , and the imagination , thinking can be taught only by something which excites inquiry , and still leaves something to be discovered . Nothing has done this more successfully , either in ...
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... fact , generalization is the only means by which we can acquire or retain the constant accumulations of knowledge from age to age . We now learn and demonstrate , in a few hours , general truths of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy which ...
... fact , generalization is the only means by which we can acquire or retain the constant accumulations of knowledge from age to age . We now learn and demonstrate , in a few hours , general truths of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy which ...
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... fact , it is only the grossly ignorant who is insensible to his own ignorance ; the more extensive our knowledge , the greater the number and the variety of the subjects which present themselves for further inquiry . The wider the ...
... fact , it is only the grossly ignorant who is insensible to his own ignorance ; the more extensive our knowledge , the greater the number and the variety of the subjects which present themselves for further inquiry . The wider the ...
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... facts , can ever do much towards creating new or im- proving old systems of thought or of happiness . The one derives its power from the forms of beauty in the In the last chapter of Sismondi's Fall of the Roman Empire , pages 470 , 471 ...
... facts , can ever do much towards creating new or im- proving old systems of thought or of happiness . The one derives its power from the forms of beauty in the In the last chapter of Sismondi's Fall of the Roman Empire , pages 470 , 471 ...
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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...