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... taste favorable to civilization and moral improvement , 79 - why then , is the study so much neglected ? —it is peculiarly interesting to children , 80— causes of the prevalent mistake respecting its utility - error on the part of ...
... taste favorable to civilization and moral improvement , 79 - why then , is the study so much neglected ? —it is peculiarly interesting to children , 80— causes of the prevalent mistake respecting its utility - error on the part of ...
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... taste- other works besides those mentioned - art should have as little direct con- scious influence on delivery as possible , 124 - the true sphere of art is pre- vious training , the formation of good habits , 125 — remarks on habit ...
... taste- other works besides those mentioned - art should have as little direct con- scious influence on delivery as possible , 124 - the true sphere of art is pre- vious training , the formation of good habits , 125 — remarks on habit ...
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... taste for the beauties of nature , 231 - defects of arith- metic - proposed new system , 232 - mental arithmetic - moral and intel- lectual advantages arising from the proper mode of teaching it , 234 — eu- logy on Warren Colburn ...
... taste for the beauties of nature , 231 - defects of arith- metic - proposed new system , 232 - mental arithmetic - moral and intel- lectual advantages arising from the proper mode of teaching it , 234 — eu- logy on Warren Colburn ...
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... taste in her literary works , and in conducting her philosophical inqui- ries , as well as in the conception of her works of art , which never fails to obtain the approbation of the cultivated under- standing , and to which even the ...
... taste in her literary works , and in conducting her philosophical inqui- ries , as well as in the conception of her works of art , which never fails to obtain the approbation of the cultivated under- standing , and to which even the ...
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... taste , or the imperfect manner in which their early studies have been conducted , or the distracting avocations of active life , it is but a very limited number of all who attempt to acquire a classical education , who ever make ...
... taste , or the imperfect manner in which their early studies have been conducted , or the distracting avocations of active life , it is but a very limited number of all who attempt to acquire a classical education , who ever make ...
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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.