You and I: Or, Living Thoughts for Our Moral, Intellectual and Physical Advancement, by Leading Thinkers of To-day |
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... observation and reflection ; which will make thinking and reasonable beings of the mere creatures of impulse , prejudice and passion ; that which , in a moral sense , will give them objects of pursuit and habits of conduct favorable to ...
... observation and reflection ; which will make thinking and reasonable beings of the mere creatures of impulse , prejudice and passion ; that which , in a moral sense , will give them objects of pursuit and habits of conduct favorable to ...
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... observation , attention , expres- sion and reflection , they must reach the maturity of their being . The perceptive faculties are the first in the order of nature and of time to be exercised . The child coming into this world begins ...
... observation , attention , expres- sion and reflection , they must reach the maturity of their being . The perceptive faculties are the first in the order of nature and of time to be exercised . The child coming into this world begins ...
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... observation , upon which perception depends , is thus being trained . The world will gradually and continually unfold to this observing faculty . He who has not been trained to use it , will go through life scarcely seeing any . thing ...
... observation , upon which perception depends , is thus being trained . The world will gradually and continually unfold to this observing faculty . He who has not been trained to use it , will go through life scarcely seeing any . thing ...
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... observation ! Let the mother , instead of checking it , take the child's treasures home , sort them out , put them in the cabinet and teach the little one their names and the part the substances of which they are the representatives ...
... observation ! Let the mother , instead of checking it , take the child's treasures home , sort them out , put them in the cabinet and teach the little one their names and the part the substances of which they are the representatives ...
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... observation depends upon attention , hence the child must be trained to take particular notice of the object coming before it . Attention is the key which unlocks all the gates of knowledge and secures an entrance into every realm of ...
... observation depends upon attention , hence the child must be trained to take particular notice of the object coming before it . Attention is the key which unlocks all the gates of knowledge and secures an entrance into every realm of ...
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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.