American Annals of Education and Instruction, Volume 5Allen & Ticknor, 1835 - Education |
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... means of self - instruction extended and cheapened , in a manner hitherto unexam- pled . Books upon the science and art of education are increasing . Newspaper paragraphs are more frequent . A Mother's Magazine has se- cured thousands ...
... means of self - instruction extended and cheapened , in a manner hitherto unexam- pled . Books upon the science and art of education are increasing . Newspaper paragraphs are more frequent . A Mother's Magazine has se- cured thousands ...
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... means of employing the resources which Providence has entrust- ed to their care , in continuing to furnish this work to our public libraries or institutions , to those who are preparing for the business of instruction in our own country ...
... means of employing the resources which Providence has entrust- ed to their care , in continuing to furnish this work to our public libraries or institutions , to those who are preparing for the business of instruction in our own country ...
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... means a novel one . There are many County and State Societies in the Union for the promotion of this cause . Already have they produced a wide and salutary impression . Argument , per- suasion , and patriotic intreaties , are the ...
... means a novel one . There are many County and State Societies in the Union for the promotion of this cause . Already have they produced a wide and salutary impression . Argument , per- suasion , and patriotic intreaties , are the ...
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... mean , after they have spelled them ; and then the books they read , and the things said to them , are all like an unknown tongue ; and we have to teach them , just as if we were teaching them Latin or French , what half the words mean ...
... mean , after they have spelled them ; and then the books they read , and the things said to them , are all like an unknown tongue ; and we have to teach them , just as if we were teaching them Latin or French , what half the words mean ...
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... means of lighting the study . ' Can- dles , if used at all , should be of wax or spermaceti ; but he pre- fers the common Argand study lamp , ( the lamp with a circular wick , which still bears the name of the inventor , ) furnished ...
... means of lighting the study . ' Can- dles , if used at all , should be of wax or spermaceti ; but he pre- fers the common Argand study lamp , ( the lamp with a circular wick , which still bears the name of the inventor , ) furnished ...
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Page 364 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 192 - If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
Page 544 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 450 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 192 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it.
Page 192 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!
Page 192 - I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 192 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
Page 192 - The God of my rock ; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
Page 25 - ... for he was not able to utter a word without it. One of his clients, who was more merry than wise, stole it from him one day in the midst of his pleading; but he had better have let it alone, for he lost his cause by his jest.