The Student, Volume 3Isaac Sharpless and Watson W. Dewees, 1883 |
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... Society for Home Culture , Mineralogy , Moral and Civil Instruction , 341 212 353 G. V. , Jr. , 33 , 67 188 Motives in Teaching , Thomas Chase , 238 Natural Science in Secondary Schools , New Building at Westtown , Joseph Rhoads , Jr ...
... Society for Home Culture , Mineralogy , Moral and Civil Instruction , 341 212 353 G. V. , Jr. , 33 , 67 188 Motives in Teaching , Thomas Chase , 238 Natural Science in Secondary Schools , New Building at Westtown , Joseph Rhoads , Jr ...
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... Society of Friends NINTH MONTH , 1882 . CONTENTS . EDITORIAL . - Distinction between Members and Others- Loss of the School's Influence -- No Exhaustion of Matter for a School Journal - Programmes - Science and Classics -Society for ...
... Society of Friends NINTH MONTH , 1882 . CONTENTS . EDITORIAL . - Distinction between Members and Others- Loss of the School's Influence -- No Exhaustion of Matter for a School Journal - Programmes - Science and Classics -Society for ...
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... society as they were ten years ago . This was based on the statement that a smaller percentage of children is enrolled now than then . This may be due to the fact that more attention is paid at home to elementary education , and that ...
... society as they were ten years ago . This was based on the statement that a smaller percentage of children is enrolled now than then . This may be due to the fact that more attention is paid at home to elementary education , and that ...
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... society . Let those of us who are in a condition , meet the responsibility and give to it our best abilities and thoughts . Some- thing more is needed than deploring the bad tendencies of public schools . Two years ago when we began ...
... society . Let those of us who are in a condition , meet the responsibility and give to it our best abilities and thoughts . Some- thing more is needed than deploring the bad tendencies of public schools . Two years ago when we began ...
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... Society for Home Culture has issued its circular for the season of 1882-3 . We commend this organization and the help it offers to all in need of assistance of the kind . The circular promises nothing which the agents of the society ...
... Society for Home Culture has issued its circular for the season of 1882-3 . We commend this organization and the help it offers to all in need of assistance of the kind . The circular promises nothing which the agents of the society ...
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Page 275 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 55 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 255 - POVERTY is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a Man to be drowned who was worth the saving.
Page 209 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 119 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 127 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...
Page 184 - Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live as men do.
Page 21 - If an Englishman cannot get literary culture out of his Bible, his Shakespeare, his Milton, neither, in my belief, will the profoundest study of Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, give it to him.
Page 183 - have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace : beloved by " my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. " Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, " nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my " felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of " pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot : they amount " to FOURTEEN : — O man ! place not thy confidence in this present
Page 194 - Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain, by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven from which his crimes exclude him ! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, 'and you will form as tolerable a fiotion of my state, as it is possible for a good man to have.