The American Journal of Education, Volume 8Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1860 |
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... means of communicating his thoughts . Moreover , man alone possesses the desire for knowledge , or the impulse to know truth , together with the means of satisfying this impulse . Finally the last great distinction of nature , the last ...
... means of communicating his thoughts . Moreover , man alone possesses the desire for knowledge , or the impulse to know truth , together with the means of satisfying this impulse . Finally the last great distinction of nature , the last ...
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... means . For , however lofty the end after which our higher nature strives , yet our investigations are limited , while in this life , by our material constitu- ents , to what we now are . GIORDANO BRUNO . Of plants and animals , nature ...
... means . For , however lofty the end after which our higher nature strives , yet our investigations are limited , while in this life , by our material constitu- ents , to what we now are . GIORDANO BRUNO . Of plants and animals , nature ...
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... means , are fettered . On the contrary , no single direction is exclusively prescribed to the activity of man . Of anything which is not directly possible to him , he can remove the inward difficulties by practice , and the outward by ...
... means , are fettered . On the contrary , no single direction is exclusively prescribed to the activity of man . Of anything which is not directly possible to him , he can remove the inward difficulties by practice , and the outward by ...
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... means of his intellectual nature , the object of his own reasoning actions ; while plants and trees are for the use of men , he is for himself , and for the development of his inner nature ; since God , the highest I ( Exod . iii ; 14 ) ...
... means of his intellectual nature , the object of his own reasoning actions ; while plants and trees are for the use of men , he is for himself , and for the development of his inner nature ; since God , the highest I ( Exod . iii ; 14 ) ...
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... means follow , that a higher method of natural investigation , a method under the guidance of that reason which , as the medium of knowledge of the divine , is what characterizes man as man , in the highest an investigation in that ...
... means follow , that a higher method of natural investigation , a method under the guidance of that reason which , as the medium of knowledge of the divine , is what characterizes man as man , in the highest an investigation in that ...
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Page 9 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him; and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 222 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 378 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: And thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 283 - YE distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watry glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade; And ye that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th...
Page 378 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of Him shall be sweet : I will be glad in the Lord.
Page 350 - But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 284 - Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 9 - And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 250 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no...
Page 69 - Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.