Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of BostonGeo. C. Rand & Avery, 1865 - Boston (Mass.) |
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... tion of the Rebel States is owing to the fact that the principles of freedom were not early incorporated into their Constitutions . We can receive their sneers with complacency , as we contrast their condition with our own . Let their ...
... tion of the Rebel States is owing to the fact that the principles of freedom were not early incorporated into their Constitutions . We can receive their sneers with complacency , as we contrast their condition with our own . Let their ...
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... tion had created weakness , it has been found to have given strength ; it was feared that education had de- veloped such love of study , thought , and luxurious ease as would fail in any conflict of arms ; it has been found that its ...
... tion had created weakness , it has been found to have given strength ; it was feared that education had de- veloped such love of study , thought , and luxurious ease as would fail in any conflict of arms ; it has been found that its ...
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... tion , and so magnifies the graces and the powers , and accelerates the progress of every scholar . In Levana it is said , " Every intellectual peculiarity , be it mathe- matical , artistic , philosophical , is a beating heart 18 ANNUAL ...
... tion , and so magnifies the graces and the powers , and accelerates the progress of every scholar . In Levana it is said , " Every intellectual peculiarity , be it mathe- matical , artistic , philosophical , is a beating heart 18 ANNUAL ...
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... tion was employed by the Committee to take charge of this matter , and to give instruction to such pupils , with their teachers , as might be selected , and generally to unify the practice in this branch throughout the schools . The ...
... tion was employed by the Committee to take charge of this matter , and to give instruction to such pupils , with their teachers , as might be selected , and generally to unify the practice in this branch throughout the schools . The ...
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... tion of this charge of truancy by the officer , suffered their children to be discharged from school member- ship , by non - attendance under the rule , thus foiling the efforts of the Committee , until the absence of the child from ...
... tion of this charge of truancy by the officer , suffered their children to be discharged from school member- ship , by non - attendance under the rule , thus foiling the efforts of the Committee , until the absence of the child from ...
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Page 43 - ... 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 mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 223 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Page 43 - 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 100 - Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, 30 In the long way that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright.
Page 42 - Her parents, the duke and duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 161 - and would continue the habit, did not the silly mamma tell them not to tease her. Observe how, when out with the nurse-maid, each little one runs up to her with the new flower it has gathered, to show her how pretty it is, and to get her also, to say it is pretty. Listen to the eager volubility with which every urchin describes any novelty he has been to see, if only he can find some one who will attend with any interest. Does not the induction lie on the surface? Is it not clear that we must conform...
Page 43 - 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 42 - After salutation, and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the park...
Page 162 - ... them one after another. Gradually, as there occur cases in which he omits to name one or more of the properties he has become acquainted with, she introduces the practice of asking him whether there is not something more that he can tell her about the thing he has got.
Page 161 - In manhood too, when there are no longer teachers at hand, the observations and inferences required for daily guidance, must be made unhelped ; and success in life depends upon the accuracy and completeness with which they are made.