Parliamentary Papers, Band 23,Teil 2

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Seite 623 - The glorious habit by which sense is made Subservient still to moral purposes, Auxiliar to divine.
Seite 623 - Science then Shall be a precious visitant ; and then, And only then, be worthy of her name. For then her heart shall kindle ; her dull eye, Dull and inanimate, no more shall hang Chained to its object in brute slavery ; But taught with patient interest to watch The processes of things, and serve the cause Of order and distinctness, not for this Shall it forget that its most noble use, Its most illustrious province, must be found In furnishing clear guidance, a support Not treacherous, to the mind's...
Seite 623 - So build we up the being that we are ; Thus deeply drinking-in the soul of things We shall be wise perforce ; and while inspired By choice, and conscious that the will is free, Unswerving shall we move ; as if impelled By strict necessity, along the path Of order and of good.
Seite 631 - What is the use of a fireplace in a bedroom ? 2. Give some of the various ways with which you are acquainted of preserving meat or vegetables, so as to lay them up in store for future use. 3. Of the modes of cooking animal food — roasting, boiling, stewing — -which do you consider the most economical, and why ? 3.
Seite 153 - Education, for their consideration, that one great fault in the system of instruction in the schools of the country lies in the want of proper teaching in the art of writing. The great bulk of the lower and middle orders write hands too small and indistinct, and do not form their letters ; or they sometimes form them by alternate broad and fine strokes, which make the words difficult to read.
Seite 117 - The several cities and towns, availing themselves of the provisions of this act, shall appoint, at the annual meetings of said towns, or annually by the mayor and aldermen of said cities, three or more persons, who alone shall be authorized to make the complaints, in every case of violation of said ordinances or by-laws, to the justice of the peace, or other judicial officer...
Seite 655 - ... 2. These remarks will enable us to correct an error which of late has done very much evil to the science of education. Some years since, I know not when, it was supposed, or we have said it was supposed, that the whole business of education was to store the mind with facts. Dugald Stewart, I believe, somewhere remarks that the business of education, on the contrary, is to cultivate the original faculties.
Seite 117 - ... up without salutary parental control and education, or in circumstances exposing them to lead idle and dissolute lives ; and may also make all such by-laws...
Seite 117 - Each of the several cities and towns in this State be and they hereby are authorized and empowered to make all needful provisions and arrangements concerning habitual truants and children not attending school, without any regular and lawful occupation, growing up in ignorance...
Seite 655 - English, it was sufficient to say that the grand object was not to teach the structure of sentences, but to strengthen the faculties. If you taught him the mathematics, and he did not understand the Rule of Three, and could not tell you how to measure the height of his village steeple, it was all no matter, — the object was to strengthen his faculties. If, after six or seven years...

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