The Rhode Island Educational Magazine, Volume 2Elisha Reynolds Potter Sayles & Miller, 1854 |
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... pulling down . If the accounts we have of European educa- * NOTE . This is noticed by Laing , one of the most intelligent of modern trav- ellers . tion are correct , a large number of our Colleges 16 SCHOOL COMMISSIONER'S REPORT .
... pulling down . If the accounts we have of European educa- * NOTE . This is noticed by Laing , one of the most intelligent of modern trav- ellers . tion are correct , a large number of our Colleges 16 SCHOOL COMMISSIONER'S REPORT .
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... educa- ting the people too highly , that we shall make them discon- tented with their situation , and above their business . It were perhaps a sufficient answer to this , that do as much as we can , there is little probability in our ...
... educa- ting the people too highly , that we shall make them discon- tented with their situation , and above their business . It were perhaps a sufficient answer to this , that do as much as we can , there is little probability in our ...
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... educa- tion . We cannot prevent it if we would . For two hun- dred years this country has been the refuge of the oppressed of all nations . It will continue to be so . We would not selfishly close it against them , but with a broad and ...
... educa- tion . We cannot prevent it if we would . For two hun- dred years this country has been the refuge of the oppressed of all nations . It will continue to be so . We would not selfishly close it against them , but with a broad and ...
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... educa . tion in its true and highest meaning , as being the culture , growth , development , and formation of mind as mind , and of man as man , in distinction from the partial knowledge which has nothing to do with such culture and ...
... educa . tion in its true and highest meaning , as being the culture , growth , development , and formation of mind as mind , and of man as man , in distinction from the partial knowledge which has nothing to do with such culture and ...
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... educa- tion at all , in the strict sense of the term . Education com- mences in the cradle , and is affected by all the circumstances of a man's life in his course to the grave . The instruction received in the day school is one of ...
... educa- tion at all , in the strict sense of the term . Education com- mences in the cradle , and is affected by all the circumstances of a man's life in his course to the grave . The instruction received in the day school is one of ...
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Page 185 - It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold : "Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, From heaven's all-gracious King!
Page 132 - The rod and reproof give wisdom : but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Page 180 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Page 185 - Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world. Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on heavenly wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing.
Page 124 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age. He received him kindly, washed his feet, provided supper, caused him to sit down; but observing that the old man...
Page 124 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.
Page 161 - I am, not wholly so, Since quickened by thy breath; 0, lead me, wheresoe'er I go, — Through this day's life or death. This day be bread and peace my lot; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done.
Page 161 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 30 - ... virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Page 168 - It would be hard to estimate the amount of gentleness and mercy that has made its way among us through these slight channels. Forbearance, courtesy, consideration for the poor and aged, kind treatment of animals, the love of nature, abhorrence of tyranny and brute force—many such good things have been first nourished in the child's heart by this powerful aid.