You and I: Or, Living Thoughts for Our Moral, Intellectual and Physical Advancement, by Leading Thinkers of To-day |
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... expression of its needs to learn something , first of all , of space and distance . What can be more foolish than to keep objects out of the reach of the child , when these are the very things needed to give it the primal impressions it ...
... expression of its needs to learn something , first of all , of space and distance . What can be more foolish than to keep objects out of the reach of the child , when these are the very things needed to give it the primal impressions it ...
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... expression follows that of perception . In our views of education , we have too often limited the mean- ing of expression to the use of language alone , while it should include everything by which the mind can give utterance to the ...
... expression follows that of perception . In our views of education , we have too often limited the mean- ing of expression to the use of language alone , while it should include everything by which the mind can give utterance to the ...
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... expression , and thus of communication . It should be taught , not at the first , by compelling the child to learn the rules of grammar and composition , but in such a way that the rules will be readily seen to grow out of what has been ...
... expression , and thus of communication . It should be taught , not at the first , by compelling the child to learn the rules of grammar and composition , but in such a way that the rules will be readily seen to grow out of what has been ...
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... expression have been in training , the reflective powers have been gradually develop- ing . Memory has been retaining in its grasp the elements of knowledge , which are , at once , the rudiments of intellectual life , the springs of ...
... expression have been in training , the reflective powers have been gradually develop- ing . Memory has been retaining in its grasp the elements of knowledge , which are , at once , the rudiments of intellectual life , the springs of ...
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... expression be developed , and the mind stored with knowledge , your influence must make itself felt in the world of mind : no artifice of the tailor or dress- ence maker , no instruction of the dancing - master 76 YOU AND 1 .
... expression be developed , and the mind stored with knowledge , your influence must make itself felt in the world of mind : no artifice of the tailor or dress- ence maker , no instruction of the dancing - master 76 YOU AND 1 .
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Page 651 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 117 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 491 - God be thanked for books ! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.
Page 297 - O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more.
Page 606 - And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Page 606 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Page 675 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.
Page 325 - And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Page 607 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 477 - He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city.