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... grammar the use of which no student understands , and he will tell you that it is because these lessons are good for the mind , they strengthen it , make it facile , increase its power and sharpen the wits of the young . But no teacher ...
... grammar the use of which no student understands , and he will tell you that it is because these lessons are good for the mind , they strengthen it , make it facile , increase its power and sharpen the wits of the young . But no teacher ...
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... grammar . Two or three who had persevered in that course as far as Cicero's orations we felt had not had enough grammar yet , so we set them to memorizing the Greek grammar . The money to provide that education was collected dollar by ...
... grammar . Two or three who had persevered in that course as far as Cicero's orations we felt had not had enough grammar yet , so we set them to memorizing the Greek grammar . The money to provide that education was collected dollar by ...
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... grammar . I lie awake at night and weep over what my daughter is required to study in that subject . It is the most metaphysical and un- certain of all the creations of the human intellect . The world reached its highest known stage of ...
... grammar . I lie awake at night and weep over what my daughter is required to study in that subject . It is the most metaphysical and un- certain of all the creations of the human intellect . The world reached its highest known stage of ...
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... grammar , and study instead of books and even speech itself . In their lowest depth of indifference to the moving , pulsing life of man not even the Alexandrians sank so low as that . “ Pardon my vehemence , but it is wicked when our ...
... grammar , and study instead of books and even speech itself . In their lowest depth of indifference to the moving , pulsing life of man not even the Alexandrians sank so low as that . “ Pardon my vehemence , but it is wicked when our ...
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... grammar which my child is required to learn to make in her lessons are beyond my power . I have asked her to find out from her teacher if she under- stands what they are in certain cases , and I find that the teacher is no better off ...
... grammar which my child is required to learn to make in her lessons are beyond my power . I have asked her to find out from her teacher if she under- stands what they are in certain cases , and I find that the teacher is no better off ...
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Page 203 - The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Page 202 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Page 324 - That in order to secure the benefits of the appropriations provided for in sections two, three, and four of this Act, any State shall, through the legislative authority thereof, accept the provisions of this Act...
Page 319 - The Auditor for the State and Other Departments shall receive and examine all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the office of the Secretary of...
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Page 203 - He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face ; he will never see it.
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Page 103 - What is absolute unity?' This is the way in which the study of the one has a power of drawing and converting the mind to the contemplation of true being. And surely, he said, this occurs notably in the case of one; for we see the same thing to be both one and infinite in multitude?
Page 326 - That the Federal board for vocational education may withhold the allotment of moneys to any State whenever it shall be determined that such moneys are not being expended for the purposes and under the conditions of this act. If any allotment is withheld from any State, the State board of such State may appeal to the Congress of the United States, and if the Congress shall not direct such sum to be paid it shall be covered into the Treasury.
Page 325 - State the legislature of which does not meet in nineteen hundred and seventeen, if the governor of that State, so far as he is authorized to do so, shall accept the provisions of this Act and designate or create a State board of not less than three members to act in cooperation with the Federal Board for vocational...