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... Position , Per- mutations and Combinations , Progressions , Arithmet- ical Progressions , Geometrical Progressions , Annuities and Equation of Payments . By going back a little farther , but to keep in the Nineteenth Century we may add ...
... Position , Per- mutations and Combinations , Progressions , Arithmet- ical Progressions , Geometrical Progressions , Annuities and Equation of Payments . By going back a little farther , but to keep in the Nineteenth Century we may add ...
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... Position . Now comes one from Alligation . 66 Suppose I have four sorts of currants , at 3d . 12d . 18d . and 22d . per lb. The worst will not sell , and the best are too dear ; I therefore conclude to mix 120lb . and so much of each ...
... Position . Now comes one from Alligation . 66 Suppose I have four sorts of currants , at 3d . 12d . 18d . and 22d . per lb. The worst will not sell , and the best are too dear ; I therefore conclude to mix 120lb . and so much of each ...
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... position and thus learn how to govern him . I am here reminded of an old schoolmate at the old stone school house . Bill would do the most cheeky things , and then put on that innocent look of his so quickly and perfectly that had a ...
... position and thus learn how to govern him . I am here reminded of an old schoolmate at the old stone school house . Bill would do the most cheeky things , and then put on that innocent look of his so quickly and perfectly that had a ...
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... position , is in fact , the principal of one of the largest schools in one of the largest cities of the Union . When a boy he went to school and he remembers just how he felt as a child , a grand good thing , by the way , inasmuch as he ...
... position , is in fact , the principal of one of the largest schools in one of the largest cities of the Union . When a boy he went to school and he remembers just how he felt as a child , a grand good thing , by the way , inasmuch as he ...
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... position , assumed all of its responsibilities . Rather than to have had an influence over this one boy for bad , let him seek a livelihood anywhere else , or as David Page expresses it , " Failing to gain it by other means , let ...
... position , assumed all of its responsibilities . Rather than to have had an influence over this one boy for bad , let him seek a livelihood anywhere else , or as David Page expresses it , " Failing to gain it by other means , let ...
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Page 88 - Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel, and mart, and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 45 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 48 - He who checks a child with terror, Stops its play, and stills its song, Not alone commits an error, But a grievous moral wrong. Give it play, and never fear it, Active life is no defect ; Never, never, break its spirit ; Curb it only to direct. Would you stop the flowing river, Thinking it would cease to flow ? Onward must it flow for ever ; Better teach it where to go.
Page 85 - Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times •out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving.
Page 88 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace— soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain and...
Page 99 - Ah !" I had planted the first want. He wanted me, and he wanted me there. He had felt my influence there: I was too far off in the chair. So I read to him two or three months more. Then, instead of reading aloud, I read to myself one day. After a long time, I saw he was trying to do something. I watched him. Gradually, he lifted his finger, and laid it on my lips. " Oh, you want me to read to you, do you?'
Page 83 - ... imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won. Such men, — men deserving the glorious title of teachers of mankind, I have found labouring conscientiously, though perhaps obscurely, in their blessed vocation, wherever I have gone. I have found them, and shared their fellowship, among the daring, the ambitious, the ardent, the indomitably active French; I have found them among the persevering, resolute, industrious Swiss...
Page 64 - There is no office higher than that of a teacher of youth; for there is nothing on earth so precious as the mind, soul, character of the child. No office should be regarded with greater respect. The first minds in the community should be encouraged to assume it. Parents should do all but impoverish themselves, to induce such to become the guardians and guides of their children.
Page 100 - This training went on till one day I found he could move his limbs. I put him on his hands and knees, to teach him to creep. This was nearly a year and a half after he came into the institution. As I placed him there, I said, " I wonder if I can help him to talk.
Page 34 - The principle that the main business of the teacher is to get the pupil to teach himself lies at the basis of the entire Art of Instruction.