Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Band 58American Institute of Instruction, 1887 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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Seite 128 - This water His blood that died on the tree ; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, — For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, — Himself, his hungering neighbour, and Me.
Seite 79 - Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Seite 79 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Seite 70 - Go and sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor : and come and follow me. But when he heard this, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Seite 132 - Education, and said board shall provide, compile, or cause to be compiled, and adopt, a uniform series of textbooks for use in the day and evening elementary schools throughout the State. The state board may cause such textbooks, when adopted, to be printed and published by the Superintendent of State Printing, at the State Printing Office; and...
Seite 78 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Seite 132 - ... and shall compile, or cause to be compiled, and adopt a uniform series of text-books for use in the common schools throughout the State. The State Board may cause such text-books, when adopted, to be printed and published by the Superintendent of State Printing, at the State Printing Office, and when so printed and published, to be distributed and sold at the cost price of printing, publishing, and distributing the same.
Seite 154 - HAS BEEN WROUGHT BY THE USE OF THE Classics for Children. The books in this carefully edited series are widely used in place of the ordinary Reading Books in the upper grades of the Grammar Schools and in the High Schools. They are also used as Supplementary Readers in .hundreds of schools throughout the country. DESIGN — To supply material for practice in reading, form a taste for good literature, and increase the mental power of the pupils by providing them with the best works of standard authors,...
Seite 117 - Master, do ye love me?' he was mute. And lissome Vivien, holding by his heel, Writhed toward him, slided up his knee and sat, Behind his ankle twined her hollow feet Together, curved an arm about his neck, Clung like a snake; and letting her left hand Droop from his mighty shoulder, as a leaf, Made with her right a comb of pearl to...
Seite 89 - Spake laws to them, and said that, by the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free.