American Annals of EducationWilliam Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard Otis, Broaders, 1835 - Education Includes songs with music. |
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... can only be resisted by counter combination . It was this powerful agent , working in the dark , which produced the French Revolution , and speedily shook a continent of kingdoms to its Plan , and Motives to Action . 15 centre ;
... can only be resisted by counter combination . It was this powerful agent , working in the dark , which produced the French Revolution , and speedily shook a continent of kingdoms to its Plan , and Motives to Action . 15 centre ;
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... produced a wide and salutary impression . Argument , per- suasion , and patriotic intreaties , are the instruments which we propose The weapons of this warfare are not carnal , but spiritual , and mighty to the pulling down of strong ...
... produced a wide and salutary impression . Argument , per- suasion , and patriotic intreaties , are the instruments which we propose The weapons of this warfare are not carnal , but spiritual , and mighty to the pulling down of strong ...
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... produce the impression that the whole work be- longs to this lady ; and the current language and advertise- ments of booksellers , will complete the deception , seldom an- ticipated by the editor , by announcing Aids to mental de ...
... produce the impression that the whole work be- longs to this lady ; and the current language and advertise- ments of booksellers , will complete the deception , seldom an- ticipated by the editor , by announcing Aids to mental de ...
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... parts of a foreign work as he believes calculated to produce intel- lectual and moral error ? How could he be justified in giv- ing them circulation ? His own views may be wrong , and so Addison on the importance of Gesture . 23 may the.
... parts of a foreign work as he believes calculated to produce intel- lectual and moral error ? How could he be justified in giv- ing them circulation ? His own views may be wrong , and so Addison on the importance of Gesture . 23 may the.
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... produce so much mischief , after all , as the prevailing disposition which the teacher manifests . If he is usually kind and affectionate , and only indulges in an angry fit occasionally , bad as the consequences are , they are as ...
... produce so much mischief , after all , as the prevailing disposition which the teacher manifests . If he is usually kind and affectionate , and only indulges in an angry fit occasionally , bad as the consequences are , they are as ...
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Page 261 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 24 - It is certain, that proper gestures and vehement exertions of the voice cannot be too much studied by a public orator. They are a kind of comment to what he utters, and enforce every thing he says, with weak hearers, better than the strongest argument he can make use of.
Page 470 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 25 - ... you may see many a smart rhetorician turning his hat in his hands, moulding it into several different cocks, examining sometimes the lining of it, and sometimes the button, during the whole course of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver, when perhaps he is talking of the fate of the British nation.
Page 267 - The following resolution was adopted. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to...
Page 133 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 360 - 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 23 - MOST foreign writers, who have given any character of the English nation, whatever vices they . ascribe to it, allow, in general, that the people are naturally modest. It proceeds perhaps from this our national virtue, that our orators are observed to make use of less gesture or action than those of other countries. Our preachers stand...
Page 375 - The proceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States to this State for the support of schools, which shall...
Page 25 - How cold and dead a figure, in comparison of these two great men, does an orator often make at the British bar, holding up his head with the most insipid serenity, and stroking the sides of a long wig that reaches down to his middle ? The truth of it is, there is often nothing more ridiculous than the gestures of an.