The Introductory Discourse and Lectures: Delivered in Boston, Before the Convention of Teachers, and Other Friends of Education ; Assembled to Form the American Institute of Instruction, August 1830Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1831 - 352 Seiten |
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... called a meeting , by invitations extensively circulated through the country , in the newspapers . The time of the summer holidays , the season of literary anni- versaries , was thought most favorable to a general attendance . ers , The ...
... called a meeting , by invitations extensively circulated through the country , in the newspapers . The time of the summer holidays , the season of literary anni- versaries , was thought most favorable to a general attendance . ers , The ...
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... called MIND . I use the word in its general sense , to signify , not merely a sub- stance , not matter , capable of intellection , but one also capa- ble of willing , and to which is attached the responsibility of right and wrong in ...
... called MIND . I use the word in its general sense , to signify , not merely a sub- stance , not matter , capable of intellection , but one also capa- ble of willing , and to which is attached the responsibility of right and wrong in ...
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... called application , or invention . The law of the expansive power of steam was discovered by the Marquis of Worcester , in 1663. It remained , however , for the inventive power of Watt and Fulton , more than a century afterwards , to ...
... called application , or invention . The law of the expansive power of steam was discovered by the Marquis of Worcester , in 1663. It remained , however , for the inventive power of Watt and Fulton , more than a century afterwards , to ...
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... called , the order of the imagination . Discovery is the fruit of patient thought , and not of impetuous combination . Now it must be evident that mind , directed in the train of the understanding , will be a far better instrument of ...
... called , the order of the imagination . Discovery is the fruit of patient thought , and not of impetuous combination . Now it must be evident that mind , directed in the train of the understanding , will be a far better instrument of ...
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... called , a book or a science , without any regard to the manner in which it is done . The faculties are strengthened by the use of the faculties ; but this doc- trine has been quoted to shield a mode of teaching , in which they were not ...
... called , a book or a science , without any regard to the manner in which it is done . The faculties are strengthened by the use of the faculties ; but this doc- trine has been quoted to shield a mode of teaching , in which they were not ...
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Seite 6 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 10 - For a wise man, he seemed to me at that time, to be governed too much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and, I hope, without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most indulgent to our unhappy species, and surely a little too general, led him into measures that were greatly mischievous to himself; and for that reason, among others...
Seite 175 - H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk.
Seite 167 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Seite ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 239 - ... *I here introduce a fact,' he remarks,' which has been suggested to me by my profession, and that is, that the exercise of the organs of the breast by singing contributes very much to defend them from those diseases to which the climate and other causes expose them.
Seite ii - CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the eleventh day of November, AD 1830, in the fiftyfifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Gray & Bowen, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof...
Seite 6 - It hath pleased Almighty God to place us under a constitution of universal law. By this we mean, that nothing, either in the physical, intellectual, or moral world, is in any proper sense contingent. Every event is preceded by its regular antecedents, and followed by its regular consequents ; and hence is formed that endless chain of cause and effect which binds together the innumerable changes which are taking place everywhere around us.
Seite 46 - ... peculiar to the sex, it must be attributed, as I believe, to the habit abovementioned, which, by the extension of the arms, has gradually produced a national elongation of this bone. Thus we see that habit may be employed to alter and improve the solid bones. The French have succeeded in the developement of a part, in a way that adds to health and beauty, and increases a characteristic that distinguishes the human being from the brute.
Seite 239 - God ; and it should be used as a means of enjoyment, that it may lead us on to devotion. The ear as well as the eye is made the inlet of pleasure, that we may first enjoy it, and then, by learning its value, be made thankful to Him who bestows it. The late President Dwight observed, ' The great end of God in the creation is to make men happy, and he that makes a little child happier for half an hour, is so far a fellow-worker with God.