Papers on Popular Education and School-keepingMarcus and John Sullivan, 1863 - 252 pages |
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Page 215 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first : and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
Page 15 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing "~, to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be, called internal sense.
Page 148 - An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum at Madras, suggesting a system by which a School or family may teach itself, under the superintendence of the Master or Parent.
Page 204 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Page 90 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think ; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Page 240 - Then was formed that language, less musical indeed than the languages of the south, but in force, in richness, in aptitude for all the highest purposes of the poet, the philosopher, and the orator, inferior to the tongue of Greece alone. Then too appeared the first faint dawn of that noble literature, the most splendid and the most durable of the many glories of England.
Page 72 - Ask we what makes one keep, and one bestow ? That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow, Bids seed-time, harvest, equal course maintain, Through reconciled extremes of drought and rain, Builds life on death, on change duration founds, And gives th' eternal wheels to know their rounds.