Sargent's School Monthly, for Home and School Use, Volume 1Philips, Sampson & Company, 1859 - Education |
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... course in the best schools of Sweden , Rus- sia , Prussia , and Austria ; and the profes- sion of teaching it is becoming profitable . We hope that in the United States the sub- ject will claim the attention which its im- portance ...
... course in the best schools of Sweden , Rus- sia , Prussia , and Austria ; and the profes- sion of teaching it is becoming profitable . We hope that in the United States the sub- ject will claim the attention which its im- portance ...
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... course ar- rested by an impenetrable barrier of ice . In the hope of overcoming it they waited nearly a fortnight , till , about the 20th , their situation became alarming . The young ice began rapidly to form on the surface of the ...
... course ar- rested by an impenetrable barrier of ice . In the hope of overcoming it they waited nearly a fortnight , till , about the 20th , their situation became alarming . The young ice began rapidly to form on the surface of the ...
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... course . These , during the rainy season , inun'date the whole country , and convert it into a vast lake , extending for hundreds of miles in every direction . Boats are then seen sailing through the rice - fields , in which the ears of ...
... course . These , during the rainy season , inun'date the whole country , and convert it into a vast lake , extending for hundreds of miles in every direction . Boats are then seen sailing through the rice - fields , in which the ears of ...
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... course calculated , no doubt , to be of much benefit to his hearers ; but he had not pro- ceeded far when he was interrupted by a loud noise , accompanied by rapping at the little window at the back of the pulpit . Turning round to ...
... course calculated , no doubt , to be of much benefit to his hearers ; but he had not pro- ceeded far when he was interrupted by a loud noise , accompanied by rapping at the little window at the back of the pulpit . Turning round to ...
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... course of his business , without any extraordinary turn of fortune ; yet the fol- lowing extract from a letter in the Boston Post shows how little benefit he permitted himself to receive from all his wealth . " What a satire it is ...
... course of his business , without any extraordinary turn of fortune ; yet the fol- lowing extract from a letter in the Boston Post shows how little benefit he permitted himself to receive from all his wealth . " What a satire it is ...
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Popular passages
Page 50 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 49 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 49 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, "— And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 49 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 176 - MY fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey: Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 50 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 91 - Come near and bless us when we wake, Ere through the world our way we take ; Till in the ocean of Thy love We lose ourselves in Heaven above.
Page 91 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live. Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die. 4 If some poor wandering child of Thine Have spurned to-day the voice divine, Now, Lord, the gracious work begin, Let him no more lie down in sin.
Page 142 - And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.
Page 286 - Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.