The British Annals of Education for ...: Being The Scholastic Quarterly Review, Volumes 1-2Sherwood & Boyer, 1844 - Education |
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... thought and feeling which was long since abandoned . Every useful plan , and institution , and custom , and system of truth is liable to abuse and exaggeration ; and in seeking to avoid the errors into which it has been imperceptibly ...
... thought and feeling which was long since abandoned . Every useful plan , and institution , and custom , and system of truth is liable to abuse and exaggeration ; and in seeking to avoid the errors into which it has been imperceptibly ...
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... thought , and for practical and future use . Hence the pupils of his establishment were dismissed with intellectual powers tolerably sharpened , but without the stores of knowledge important for immediate use . Well qualified for ...
... thought , and for practical and future use . Hence the pupils of his establishment were dismissed with intellectual powers tolerably sharpened , but without the stores of knowledge important for immediate use . Well qualified for ...
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... thought upon- except by the few . The fathers of families , if they possess some glimmerings of the truth , have rarely leisure to watch over the education of their sons ; and the daughters are com- mitted to the care of females utterly ...
... thought upon- except by the few . The fathers of families , if they possess some glimmerings of the truth , have rarely leisure to watch over the education of their sons ; and the daughters are com- mitted to the care of females utterly ...
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... thought can be bred , who will spread in every direction , through the machinery of the church , the law , the magistracy , the representation , and through every civil insti- tution down to the village schoolmaster and the constable of ...
... thought can be bred , who will spread in every direction , through the machinery of the church , the law , the magistracy , the representation , and through every civil insti- tution down to the village schoolmaster and the constable of ...
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... thought itself , to render adoration to truth because it is truth . Thus the soul enlarges itself by scientific ... thoughts of every age , of the glorious inspirations of every country , of noble characters venerated throughout all time ...
... thought itself , to render adoration to truth because it is truth . Thus the soul enlarges itself by scientific ... thoughts of every age , of the glorious inspirations of every country , of noble characters venerated throughout all time ...
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Page 306 - Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded ; in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page 411 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else, but learning, is full of grief] trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures in very deed be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 411 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think...
Page 282 - And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him : and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Page 283 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 156 - If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
Page 411 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 283 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Page 209 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Page 306 - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.