You and I: Or, Living Thoughts for Our Moral, Intellectual and Physical Advancement, by Leading Thinkers of To-day |
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... PRACTICAL LIFE , By G. DE LAZARRE , Ph . D. , LL . D. 236 244 TO - DAY AND FIFTY YEARS AGO , 262 By MRS . HENRY WARD BEECHER , Brooklyn , N. Y. THE COMMERCIAL VALUE OF GOOD BREEDING , 269 By REV . CHARLES O. REILLY , D. D. , Treasurer ...
... PRACTICAL LIFE , By G. DE LAZARRE , Ph . D. , LL . D. 236 244 TO - DAY AND FIFTY YEARS AGO , 262 By MRS . HENRY WARD BEECHER , Brooklyn , N. Y. THE COMMERCIAL VALUE OF GOOD BREEDING , 269 By REV . CHARLES O. REILLY , D. D. , Treasurer ...
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... practical helpfulness and rich suggestiveness . Froebel followed him , and with profound philosophical insight taught that children , in their education , must pass through the same stages of development , on a small scale , that have ...
... practical helpfulness and rich suggestiveness . Froebel followed him , and with profound philosophical insight taught that children , in their education , must pass through the same stages of development , on a small scale , that have ...
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... continues the work of education , until the child , emerging from youth into manhood , is ready for the practical duties of an honorable life . Samuel Fallonmo PHYSICAL CULTURE . BY PROF . E. B. WARMAN . INTELLECTUAL CULTURE . 20.
... continues the work of education , until the child , emerging from youth into manhood , is ready for the practical duties of an honorable life . Samuel Fallonmo PHYSICAL CULTURE . BY PROF . E. B. WARMAN . INTELLECTUAL CULTURE . 20.
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... practical benefit to the general public , from all that has been written on the sub- ject , seems to be inconsiderable . This must be the result of one of two causes : either the various modes of exercise have not been placed before the ...
... practical benefit to the general public , from all that has been written on the sub- ject , seems to be inconsiderable . This must be the result of one of two causes : either the various modes of exercise have not been placed before the ...
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... practical utility of all that is taught should be emphasized and pressed upon the attention of the young . When all of this is done , and faithfully done , the tendencies to mental dissipation will be immeasurably diminished . And all ...
... practical utility of all that is taught should be emphasized and pressed upon the attention of the young . When all of this is done , and faithfully done , the tendencies to mental dissipation will be immeasurably diminished . And all ...
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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.