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... language , of the Philippine Archipelago . They come from widely separated homes , their early lives and thought were widely different , they are now living in widely separate parts of the United States , and they will enter widely ...
... language , of the Philippine Archipelago . They come from widely separated homes , their early lives and thought were widely different , they are now living in widely separate parts of the United States , and they will enter widely ...
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... ? If they acquire a thorough mastery of the English language within that time , they will be doing well . But that is not all they came to this country to learn . Having had over fifteen years ' experience in foreign countries.
... ? If they acquire a thorough mastery of the English language within that time , they will be doing well . But that is not all they came to this country to learn . Having had over fifteen years ' experience in foreign countries.
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... languages ; Ger- man in Germany and French in France . He took additional degrees in those institutions and left them with an excellent record . In those great universities he specialized in optics . It was in Vienna where he acquired ...
... languages ; Ger- man in Germany and French in France . He took additional degrees in those institutions and left them with an excellent record . In those great universities he specialized in optics . It was in Vienna where he acquired ...
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... language while the Filipinos had to worry with a strange idiom in order to receive instruction which was given in it alone . The Filipinos , therefore , must be better endowed , intellectually , than the Span- iards , he inferred ...
... language while the Filipinos had to worry with a strange idiom in order to receive instruction which was given in it alone . The Filipinos , therefore , must be better endowed , intellectually , than the Span- iards , he inferred ...
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a different language . Because the Spaniards never divined the real sentiments of the people of the Philippines as represented by Rizal towards themselves , young Rizal felt justified in regard- ing them as inferior in intelligence to ...
a different language . Because the Spaniards never divined the real sentiments of the people of the Philippines as represented by Rizal towards themselves , young Rizal felt justified in regard- ing them as inferior in intelligence to ...
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Page 36 - ... education, wisdom that follows practical experience, personal independence and self-respect befitting men who acknowledge no superior, self-control to replace that external control which a democracy rejects, respect for law, obedience to the lawful expressions of the public will, consideration for the opinions and interests of others equally entitled to a voice in the state, loyalty to that abstract conception — one's country — as inspiring as that loyalty to personal sovereigns which has...
Page 19 - I don't know whether it ought to be astonishing or not that a little saffron man, somewhere in that unhappy archipelago, should have been born with a gift so far beyond that of any or all the authors of our roaring literary successes...
Page 32 - If a college education means anything, it means fitting a man to do better service than he could do without it; if it does not mean that it means nothing, and if a man does not get that out of it, he gets less than nothing out of it. No man has a right to arrogate to himself one particle of superiority...
Page 5 - Often the sorrowful pilgrim is envied, Circling the globe like a sea-gull above; Little, ah, little they know what a void Saddens his soul by the absence of love. Home may the pilgrim return in the future, Back to his loved ones his footsteps he bends ; Naught will he find but the snow and the ruins, Ashes of love and the tomb of his friends. Pilgrim, begone! Nor return more hereafter. Stranger thou art in the land of thy birth ; Others may sing of their love while rejoicing, Thou once again must...
Page 19 - ... far beyond that of any or all the authors of our roaring literary successes; but those things are strangely ordered by Providence, and no one who reads this pathetic novel can deny its immeasurable superiority. The author learned his trade apparently from the modern Spanish novelists, who are very admirable teachers of simplicity and directness, with a Latin grace of their own. But he has gone beyond them in a certain sparing touch, with which he presents situation and character by mere statement...
Page 36 - To reach the goal toward which we are pressing forward, the governing multitude must first acquire knowledge that comes from universal education, wisdom that follows practical experience, personal independence and self-respect befitting men who acknowledge no superior, self-control to replace that external control which a democracy rejects, respect for law, obedience to the lawful expressions of the public will, consideration for the opinions and interests of others equally entitled to a voice in...
Page 38 - En un triángulo rectángulo, el cuadrado de la hipotenusa es Igual a la suma de los cuadrados de los catetos».
Page 37 - Hoja seca que cuela indecisa Y arrebata violento turbión, Así vive en la tierra el viajero, Sin norte, sin alma, sin patria ni amor. Busca ansioso doquiera la dicha Y la dicha se aleja fugaz: ¡Vana sombra que burla su anhelo!... ¡Por ella el viajero se lanza a la mar! Impelido por mano invisible Vagara confín en confín; Los recuerdos le harán compañía De seres queridos, de un día feliz.
Page 37 - ... satisfactory reply. SEC. 9. (a) For the purpose of facilitating deposits of small savings and of extending the privileges of the postal savings banks to the smaller communities, there shall be issued, by the bureau of posts, postal savings bank stamps in denominations of five, ten, and twenty centavos, respectively, which stamps shall be for sale at every postal savings bank in the Philippine Islands, and all moneys received in payment for said stamps shall be considered as postal savings bank...
Page 33 - I'll return, overburdened with care; The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there; No more from that cottage again will I roam ; Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.