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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... thought most favorable to a general attendance . ers , The convention met on the 19th of August , in the Representatives ' Hall , at Boston . It consisted of several hundred persons , most of them actual teach- from at least eleven ...
... thought most favorable to a general attendance . ers , The convention met on the 19th of August , in the Representatives ' Hall , at Boston . It consisted of several hundred persons , most of them actual teach- from at least eleven ...
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... have gone home to his solitary du- ties , strengthened and cheered by the thought , that strong hands were in the work , and that he was no longer toiling alone . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE . - BY PREsident Wayland . PREFACE . vii.
... have gone home to his solitary du- ties , strengthened and cheered by the thought , that strong hands were in the work , and that he was no longer toiling alone . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE . - BY PREsident Wayland . PREFACE . vii.
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... thought which follow the order of cause and effect , premises and conclusion , or , in general , what is considered the order of the understanding , are surely more likely to result in discovery than those which follow the order of the ...
... thought which follow the order of cause and effect , premises and conclusion , or , in general , what is considered the order of the understanding , are surely more likely to result in discovery than those which follow the order of the ...
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... thought are more productive of invention than others , and that , by following those trains , greater progress has , within a few years , been made in invention , than within ten times that period before . It is proper , however , to ...
... thought are more productive of invention than others , and that , by following those trains , greater progress has , within a few years , been made in invention , than within ten times that period before . It is proper , however , to ...
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... thought about it ? If there be any such art as the art of teaching , we ask how it comes to pass that a man shall be considered fully qualified to exercise it , without a day's practice , when a similar attempt in any other art would ...
... thought about it ? If there be any such art as the art of teaching , we ask how it comes to pass that a man shall be considered fully qualified to exercise it , without a day's practice , when a similar attempt in any other art would ...
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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.