The Planet, conducted by T. McNicollThomas M'Nicoll 1862 |
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... writers — many of them practically familiar with the business of popular education - who have already pointed out the probable influence of the Revised Code . It will suffice if we enumerate seriatim the objections to which it is 42 The ...
... writers — many of them practically familiar with the business of popular education - who have already pointed out the probable influence of the Revised Code . It will suffice if we enumerate seriatim the objections to which it is 42 The ...
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... writing to have in the dictation lesson ? Is one slip in working a sum to be fatal , or is a boy to have a second trial ? Will the Inspectors undertake such an invidious duty ? Or again , what will happen when the inspection occurs in a ...
... writing to have in the dictation lesson ? Is one slip in working a sum to be fatal , or is a boy to have a second trial ? Will the Inspectors undertake such an invidious duty ? Or again , what will happen when the inspection occurs in a ...
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... writing , and arith- metic ; and , pro tanto , discourages all efforts to improve the quality , and raise the ... writer whom we have before quoted , and who says : - ' It is very important that the desire for sounder elementary ...
... writing , and arith- metic ; and , pro tanto , discourages all efforts to improve the quality , and raise the ... writer whom we have before quoted , and who says : - ' It is very important that the desire for sounder elementary ...
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... writing the English language , and in understanding the structure of sentences . But , for the advanced student , who desires to examine the philology of our vernacular speech , little has been hitherto done . Yet the materials for a ...
... writing the English language , and in understanding the structure of sentences . But , for the advanced student , who desires to examine the philology of our vernacular speech , little has been hitherto done . Yet the materials for a ...
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... writers ; but it is difficult to understand what purpose can be served by col- lecting together about two hundred and fifty of such rules . They are too numerous to learn , and are virtually useless in the regulation of our speech ; as ...
... writers ; but it is difficult to understand what purpose can be served by col- lecting together about two hundred and fifty of such rules . They are too numerous to learn , and are virtually useless in the regulation of our speech ; as ...
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Page 134 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 265 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 301 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 266 - 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 mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 322 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 141 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Page 265 - After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the park? Smiling she answered me, ' I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas I good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 269 - Therefore, to ride comely; to run fair at the tilt or ring; to play at all weapons; to shoot fair in bow or surely in gun; to vault lustily; to run, to leap, to wrestle, to swim; to dance comely; to sing, and play...
Page 266 - It is your shame (I speak to you all, you young gentlemen of England) that one maid should go beyond you all, in excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues.
Page 266 - ... 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...