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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... exist here ; the enterprise commenced notwithstanding them , 146 - the design of these institutions not to make new discov- eries , but to disseminate widely knowledge already possessed , 147— method of establishing a lyceum ...
... exist here ; the enterprise commenced notwithstanding them , 146 - the design of these institutions not to make new discov- eries , but to disseminate widely knowledge already possessed , 147— method of establishing a lyceum ...
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... exist ! I speak not the language of party . I es- chew and abhor it ; but ' I speak with the freedom of history , and I hope without offence . ' These examples are at least sufficient to show us , that the mind of man is not , at ...
... exist ! I speak not the language of party . I es- chew and abhor it ; but ' I speak with the freedom of history , and I hope without offence . ' These examples are at least sufficient to show us , that the mind of man is not , at ...
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... exist , or to vary their relations to each other . In other words , to cultivate to the utmost the original faculties of the mind , is to render it the fittest possible instrument for discover- ing , applying , and obeying the laws of ...
... exist , or to vary their relations to each other . In other words , to cultivate to the utmost the original faculties of the mind , is to render it the fittest possible instrument for discover- ing , applying , and obeying the laws of ...
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... I am aware how difficult it is to have a distinct notion of these intricate changes in the human machinery , without an exhibition of the parts concerned in them ; but it is my duty to represent the train of phenomena as they exist in.
... I am aware how difficult it is to have a distinct notion of these intricate changes in the human machinery , without an exhibition of the parts concerned in them ; but it is my duty to represent the train of phenomena as they exist in.
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... exist in nature ; and I think they are sufficiently intelligible to excite considera- tion and inquiry . Perhaps it may be imagined , that the cases I have described are of rare occurrence , and that we have no occasion to alarm ...
... exist in nature ; and I think they are sufficiently intelligible to excite considera- tion and inquiry . Perhaps it may be imagined , that the cases I have described are of rare occurrence , and that we have no occasion to alarm ...
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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.