American Education: Its Principles and Elements : Dedicated to the Teachers of the United StatesA.S. Barnes & Company, 1851 - 330 pages |
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... LAW - BOOK OF THE NATION .. 260 The Nature of the Constitution 262 Sovereignty of the People . The Citizen a Sovereign A Citizen a Subject 264 .... 266 268 The Citizen an Officer ..... 270 The Constitution an Instructor 272 CHAPTER XIII ...
... LAW - BOOK OF THE NATION .. 260 The Nature of the Constitution 262 Sovereignty of the People . The Citizen a Sovereign A Citizen a Subject 264 .... 266 268 The Citizen an Officer ..... 270 The Constitution an Instructor 272 CHAPTER XIII ...
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... LAW - BOOK FROM HEAVEN The Bible the oldest and truest History . 275 ..... 276 66 a Delineator of Human Nature 279 66 contains the Divine Law ...... 282 66 contains the true Principles of Progress .. 284 66 announces Future Glory . 288 ...
... LAW - BOOK FROM HEAVEN The Bible the oldest and truest History . 275 ..... 276 66 a Delineator of Human Nature 279 66 contains the Divine Law ...... 282 66 contains the true Principles of Progress .. 284 66 announces Future Glory . 288 ...
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... laws ; that is , laws made by civil society , as an organized body , and not merely the laws of nature or religion . These laws are made by the people . But these laws may be made either by the whole people or by part of the people ...
... laws ; that is , laws made by civil society , as an organized body , and not merely the laws of nature or religion . These laws are made by the people . But these laws may be made either by the whole people or by part of the people ...
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... laws themselves ; next , between the practical consequences which flow from those laws ; and , lastly , between different portions of the nation ; who will think that either the one or the other class of laws are better adapted to their ...
... laws themselves ; next , between the practical consequences which flow from those laws ; and , lastly , between different portions of the nation ; who will think that either the one or the other class of laws are better adapted to their ...
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... law only , or the people will become the mere subjects of a monarch . In the idea of a republic , then , is included the ... Laws , book iv . , chap . 5 . fore , depends on establishing this love in a republic THE IDEA OF A REPUBLIC . 15.
... law only , or the people will become the mere subjects of a monarch . In the idea of a republic , then , is included the ... Laws , book iv . , chap . 5 . fore , depends on establishing this love in a republic THE IDEA OF A REPUBLIC . 15.
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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...