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... lead them to take , is diminished by the timidity or ignorance of their parents and friends , who fear they will hurt themselves . Instead of being encouraged to run about , and tumble , and frolic , the blind child is too often ...
... lead them to take , is diminished by the timidity or ignorance of their parents and friends , who fear they will hurt themselves . Instead of being encouraged to run about , and tumble , and frolic , the blind child is too often ...
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... lead to a judicious assignment . That particular kind of intellec- tual duty , mathematics , language or any other , can be ap- pointed which is suited to the existing necessities of scholars 38 MR . BROOKS'S LECTURE .
... lead to a judicious assignment . That particular kind of intellec- tual duty , mathematics , language or any other , can be ap- pointed which is suited to the existing necessities of scholars 38 MR . BROOKS'S LECTURE .
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... lead the child to this impor- tant decision of judgment , -always to accomplish duties in the season allotted to them ; -a decision which once firmly come to , * and ratified by habit , is worth a year's education ON THOROUGH TEACHING . 43.
... lead the child to this impor- tant decision of judgment , -always to accomplish duties in the season allotted to them ; -a decision which once firmly come to , * and ratified by habit , is worth a year's education ON THOROUGH TEACHING . 43.
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... lead it to the most stable happiness , and thereby entitle it to wear this crown of supremacy ? For a moment , let us reflect upon their distinctive traits . Both , indeed , like man and beast , are essential to each other , in their ...
... lead it to the most stable happiness , and thereby entitle it to wear this crown of supremacy ? For a moment , let us reflect upon their distinctive traits . Both , indeed , like man and beast , are essential to each other , in their ...
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... lead and aid the children in singing . The teacher of a common school will have under her care children , who , if they can pronounce their names intelligibly , do not know the letters that compose them . She will have under her care ...
... lead and aid the children in singing . The teacher of a common school will have under her care children , who , if they can pronounce their names intelligibly , do not know the letters that compose them . She will have under her care ...
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Página 79 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 111 - ... much more the effect of use and practice. I do not deny that natural disposition may often give the first rise to it; but that never carries a man far without use and exercise, and it is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind as well as those of the body to their perfection.
Página 171 - Such a constitution having been established by a perfectly wise Creator, it may be easily supposed that it will remain unchangeable. His laws will not be altered for our convenience. We may obey them or disobey them, we may see them or not see them, we may be wise or unwise, but they will be rigidly and unalterably enforced. Thus must it ever be, until we have the power to resist the strength of omnipotence. Again ; it is sufficiently evident that the very constitution which God has established,...
Página 81 - O'erlooked and unemployed fell sick and died. Then study languished, emulation slept, And virtue fled. The schools became a scene Of solemn farce, where Ignorance in stilts, His cap well lined with logic not his own, With parrot tongue performed the scholar's part, Proceeding soon a graduated dunce.
Página 91 - Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue, none but knowledge; and neither freedom, nor virtue, nor knowledge has any vigor, or immortal hope, except in the principles of the Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion.
Página 101 - Talents angel-bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments In false Ambition's hand, to finish faults Illustrious, and give Infamy renown.
Página 96 - tis found. Amongst your friends, amongst your foes On Christian or on Heathen ground ; The flower 's divine where'er it grows, Neglect the prickles and assume the rose.
Página xvii - That the business of teaching should be performed by those who have studied the subject of instruction as a profession. Therefore, Resolved, That there ought to be at least one seminary in each state, devoted exclusively to the education of teachers ; and that this seminary should be authorized to confer appropriate degrees.
Página 77 - Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th...
Página 171 - His laws will not be altered, for our convenience. We may obey them or disobey them, we may see them or not see them, we may be wise or unwise, but they will be rigidly and unalterably enforced. Thus must it ever be, until we have the power to resist the strength of omnipotence. Again ; it is sufficiently evident that the very constitution which God has established, is, with infinite wisdom and benevolence, devised for just such a being, physical, intellectual, and moral, as man. By obedience to...