American Educational Monthly, Volumen 1Schermerhorn, Bancroft & Company, 1864 |
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... knowledge of the dialect of the savages possessed by the Europeans at that time , led to the error that the substance they smoked was called tobacco , instead of the pipe through which they smoked it . Another history of the origin of ...
... knowledge of the dialect of the savages possessed by the Europeans at that time , led to the error that the substance they smoked was called tobacco , instead of the pipe through which they smoked it . Another history of the origin of ...
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... knowledge 19 upon which the stability of our form of government is predicated , why should not that government itself be invoked to act a part in the common duty of self - preservation ? Why is not the function of provid- ing for the ...
... knowledge 19 upon which the stability of our form of government is predicated , why should not that government itself be invoked to act a part in the common duty of self - preservation ? Why is not the function of provid- ing for the ...
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... knowledge which the Book of Nature affords ; with the vivid impressions of his school - boy days apon these subjects coming back upon memory ike the pleasant sound of his mother's voice ; but how rarely , under the existing condition of ...
... knowledge which the Book of Nature affords ; with the vivid impressions of his school - boy days apon these subjects coming back upon memory ike the pleasant sound of his mother's voice ; but how rarely , under the existing condition of ...
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... knowledge in relation to the classes , orders , and fam- s of the whole Animal Kingdom , from MAN down to the Sponges , the lowest organization in the e . This elaborate and beautifully simple Chart may be said to contain , in the most ...
... knowledge in relation to the classes , orders , and fam- s of the whole Animal Kingdom , from MAN down to the Sponges , the lowest organization in the e . This elaborate and beautifully simple Chart may be said to contain , in the most ...
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... knowledge of any one section is a sufficient preparation for the study of that which succeeds it . " - Specimen copy sent by mail for 60c . A MILITARY MANUAL FOR SCHOOLS . By F. N. FREEMAN , A.M. , Military Supt . of the Eagleswood ...
... knowledge of any one section is a sufficient preparation for the study of that which succeeds it . " - Specimen copy sent by mail for 60c . A MILITARY MANUAL FOR SCHOOLS . By F. N. FREEMAN , A.M. , Military Supt . of the Eagleswood ...
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Página 48 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Página 147 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Página 166 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Página 37 - God be thanked for books ! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Página 272 - evidence of things not seen," in the fulness of Divine grace ; and was profound on this, the greatest concern of human life, while unable even to comprehend how the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit" could be the cause of the change of the seasons.
Página 50 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 192 - Still it was a sight that attracted one to it for hours — the roar of the waters, the thousands of passenger-fish, leaping at the falls with all their might, the Wasoga and Waganda fishermen coming out in boats and taking post on all the rocks with rod and hook, hippopotami and crocodiles lying sleepily on the water, the ferry at work above the falls, and cattle driven down to drink at the margin of the lake...
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Página 139 - The eagerness to explore the wonderful secrets of the new hemisphere became so active that the principal cities of Spain were, in a manner, depopulated, as emigrants thronged one after another to take their chance upon the deep...
Página 47 - So twilight deepened round us. Still and black The great woods climbed the mountain at our back; And on their skirts, where yet the lingering day On the shorn greenness of the clearing lay, The brown old farm-house like a bird's-nest hung.