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... less likely to act on the minds of a superintending committee - the statute allows the district system to be dispensed with the management of the schools should be in the hands of the General Superintending Committee - supervisory power ...
... less likely to act on the minds of a superintending committee - the statute allows the district system to be dispensed with the management of the schools should be in the hands of the General Superintending Committee - supervisory power ...
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... less in the best town - schools of Europe - importance of Religion as the true basis of human culture - so recognised by Plato - the Persians in the time of Cyrus - Locke , Milton , Lord Kames , Cousin - portrait of a good school- B ...
... less in the best town - schools of Europe - importance of Religion as the true basis of human culture - so recognised by Plato - the Persians in the time of Cyrus - Locke , Milton , Lord Kames , Cousin - portrait of a good school- B ...
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... less comfortable , and that they may more fre- quently have the pleasure of meeting in it members of the Insti- tute , both residents of the city and of other places . The Censors report that in causing to be printed and published the ...
... less comfortable , and that they may more fre- quently have the pleasure of meeting in it members of the Insti- tute , both residents of the city and of other places . The Censors report that in causing to be printed and published the ...
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... less any individual of them , combines the greatness of the whole . Each is great in his particular department ; but limited and partial in the development of his capabilities . And instead of being a perfect whole - a well educated man ...
... less any individual of them , combines the greatness of the whole . Each is great in his particular department ; but limited and partial in the development of his capabilities . And instead of being a perfect whole - a well educated man ...
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... less affected by circumstances . Even down to the nineteenth century , and the present period , circumstances give character to education . France , a few years since , was looking forward , with her proud Emperor , to universal ...
... less affected by circumstances . Even down to the nineteenth century , and the present period , circumstances give character to education . France , a few years since , was looking forward , with her proud Emperor , to universal ...
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Page 210 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Page 131 - Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear...
Page 211 - The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines, that may draw nearer to another for all eternity, without a possibility of touching it : and can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to HIM, who Is the standard not only of perfection, but of happiness ! ADDISON.
Page 222 - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
Page 56 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Page 181 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 181 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been, In mockery of man's art...
Page 180 - Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue...
Page 217 - The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for the amusement of the rest...
Page 160 - 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.