Necessity of Popular Education: As a National ObjectMarsh, Capen & Lyon, 1834 - 262 páginas |
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... nearly seven eighths of the population of this country . Machinery is only a combination of tools to ex- tend the power of the hand . Still more than seven eighths of our population live by labour of some kind , either of hand or head ...
... nearly seven eighths of the population of this country . Machinery is only a combination of tools to ex- tend the power of the hand . Still more than seven eighths of our population live by labour of some kind , either of hand or head ...
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... nearly a pound weight from each adult in twelve hours . The nocturnal consumption of the air of a crowded room , ren- ders it a positive poison to the lungs , the heart , and the blood ; and when the workman has to contend with a ...
... nearly a pound weight from each adult in twelve hours . The nocturnal consumption of the air of a crowded room , ren- ders it a positive poison to the lungs , the heart , and the blood ; and when the workman has to contend with a ...
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... nearly a fourth of the infants baptised , die within the first two years from their birth . This mortality is not the design of the Creator : it is not true of the inferior animals , and therefore must have removeable causes ; which ...
... nearly a fourth of the infants baptised , die within the first two years from their birth . This mortality is not the design of the Creator : it is not true of the inferior animals , and therefore must have removeable causes ; which ...
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... nearly the whole class , even what are deemed the most " decent " and respectable , the mass pidly round by the machinery . The dust is sucked out by these wheels as through so many whirlpools , and a current of used air is kept con ...
... nearly the whole class , even what are deemed the most " decent " and respectable , the mass pidly round by the machinery . The dust is sucked out by these wheels as through so many whirlpools , and a current of used air is kept con ...
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... nearly the whole of the manual - labour class . In vain for them has the All - wise given to the intellectual facul - ́ ties to reap the highest enjoyment from their own exercise ; in vain for them has he connected exquisite delight ...
... nearly the whole of the manual - labour class . In vain for them has the All - wise given to the intellectual facul - ́ ties to reap the highest enjoyment from their own exercise ; in vain for them has he connected exquisite delight ...
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Página 182 - ... who for the most part discover their defect in excessive fears and griefs, and yet are not wholly destitute of the use of reason...
Página 49 - it is twice blessed — It blesses him that gives and him that takes," does he not utter beautiful poetry as well as unquestionable truth?
Página 49 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 39 - Latin and language the least part of education; one, who knowing how much virtue, and a well-tempered soul, is to be preferred to any sort of learning or language, makes it his chief business to form the mind of his scholars, and give that a right disposition: which, if once got, though all the rest should be neglected...
Página 39 - Tis virtue then, direct virtue, which is the hard and valuable part to be aimed at in education, and not a forward pertness or any little arts of shifting. All other considerations and accomplishments should give way and be postponed to this. This is the solid and substantial good which tutors should not only read lectures and talk of, but the...
Página 49 - ... of a family, and to behave properly when they have become such. In every part of her life, a woman feels some conveniency or advantage from every part of her education. It seldom happens that a man, in any part of his life, derives any conveniency or advantage from some of the most laborious and troublesome parts of his education.
Página 49 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Página 158 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary...
Página 233 - ... general and more profitable perusal of the Word of God. The passages introduced have been chosen, not as being of more importance than the rest of Scripture, but merely as appearing to be most level to the understandings of Children and Youth at School, and also...
Página 233 - Sunday) is to be set apart for the religious instruction of the children, on which day such pastors or other persons, as are approved of by the parents or guardians of the children, shall have access to them for that purpose...