Report of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland...[without Appendix]

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H.M. Stationery Office, 1897 - Education

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Page 204 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 223 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 200 - Section hereof, a student shall be obliged to pass in all the required subjects at one or not more than two examinations ; provided that he may offer himself for re-examination as often as may be necessary to satisfy this condition.
Page 56 - The time or times during which any religious observance is practised or instruction in religious subjects is given at any meeting of the school shall be either at the beginning or at the end or at the beginning and the end of such meeting...
Page 223 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 56 - To the managers of any school which is, in the opinion of the Department, efficiently contributing to the secular education of the parish or burgh in which it is situated.
Page 220 - I passed; for it is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify the mind of man.
Page 210 - Multa dies variique labor mutabilis aevi Rettulit in melius ; multos alterna revisens Lusit et in solido rursus Fortuna locavit.
Page 128 - Teachers cannot act as managers of, or correspondents for, the schools in which they are employed...
Page 87 - Scrofula, fits, asthma, deafness, great imperfections of the sight or voice, the loss of an eye from constitutional disease, or the loss of an arm or leg, or the permanent disability of either arm or leg, curvature of the spine, hereditary tendency to insanity, or any constitutional infirmity of a disabling nature, is a positive disqualification in candidates for the office of pupilteacher.

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