Prize essay. The Teacher's Manual: being an exposition of an efficient and economical system of education, suited to the wants of a free peopleThomas H. Webb & Company, 1843 - 263 páginas |
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... expression of eager expectation and delight . But alas ! it would not do . To them , the language and subject were alike " heathen Greek ; " and soon , very soon , the attempt to follow the lecturer had to be abandoned in despair . Ea ...
... expression of eager expectation and delight . But alas ! it would not do . To them , the language and subject were alike " heathen Greek ; " and soon , very soon , the attempt to follow the lecturer had to be abandoned in despair . Ea ...
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... expressed disapprobation of his com- panions , elicited as above . * * Just as I had written the above , one of our best teachers happening to call , I read it over to him , and asked his opinion , as to the efficacy of this method of ...
... expressed disapprobation of his com- panions , elicited as above . * * Just as I had written the above , one of our best teachers happening to call , I read it over to him , and asked his opinion , as to the efficacy of this method of ...
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... expression . There is too much sameness in the degree , both of force and of rapidity . The emphatic words should be pronounced strong and slow , and the other words softly and rapidly . Language is made up of words and syllables ; and ...
... expression . There is too much sameness in the degree , both of force and of rapidity . The emphatic words should be pronounced strong and slow , and the other words softly and rapidly . Language is made up of words and syllables ; and ...
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... expression , " and pray what was it ? " " O , dear sir , " she replied , evidently confounded by his manner , " I don't doubt , in the least , that it was owing to my weak understanding ; but you said , sir , -speaking of the wiles of ...
... expression , " and pray what was it ? " " O , dear sir , " she replied , evidently confounded by his manner , " I don't doubt , in the least , that it was owing to my weak understanding ; but you said , sir , -speaking of the wiles of ...
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... expression ; the one being oral , the other by writing . These important studies have hitherto been sadly neg- lected in our schools . They have , it is true , received some attention in our higher seminaries ; but , as has al- ready ...
... expression ; the one being oral , the other by writing . These important studies have hitherto been sadly neg- lected in our schools . They have , it is true , received some attention in our higher seminaries ; but , as has al- ready ...
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Página 126 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 257 - Lacedemonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all to a man, and with the greatest respect received him among them. The Athenians being suddenly touched with a sense of the Spartan virtue, and their own degeneracy, gave a thunder of applause ; and. the old man cried out, " The Athenians understand what is good, but the Lacedemonians practise it
Página 233 - But is it not some reproach upon the economy of Providence, that such a one, who is a mean, dirty fellow, should have amassed wealth enough to buy half a nation ? " Not in the least. He made himself a mean, dirty fellow for that very end. He has paid his health, his conscience, his liberty for it ; and will you envy him his bargain...
Página 257 - Athens, during a public representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth, that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen, who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him, if he came where they sat.
Página 57 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hillside, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious, indeed, at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 9 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 239 - Nothing but experience could evince the frequency of false information, or enable any man to conceive that so many groundless reports should be propagated, as every man of eminence may hear of himself. Some men relate what they think, as what they know; some men of confused memories and habitual inaccuracy, ascribe to one man what belongs to another ; and some talk on, without thought or care. A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters."*...
Página 94 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 109 - ... men have talked and conducted themselves in their intercourse with each other. 'There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of. It cannot, in short, be better summed up, than in the words of the Latin poet — " Emollit mores, nee sinit esse feros." It civilizes the conduct of men—...
Página 232 - In short, you must not attempt to enlarge your ideas, or polish your taste, or refine your sentiments ; but must keep on, in one beaten track, without turning aside, either to the right hand or to the left. ' But I cannot submit to drudgery like this. I feel a spirit above it.