The Addresses and Journal of Proceedings of the National Educational Association, Volume 29James H. Holmes, 1890 |
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... experience . As a gentleman he was without a superior ; as a Christian , humble , devout , spiritual , catholic . Words fail to express our personal loss , and we do not believe that his place can be fully filled . " Z. RICHARDS ...
... experience . As a gentleman he was without a superior ; as a Christian , humble , devout , spiritual , catholic . Words fail to express our personal loss , and we do not believe that his place can be fully filled . " Z. RICHARDS ...
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... experienced enough , or educated enough , or liberal - minded enough ; and a half smile flits over the face of the ... experience show conclusively an ounce of enthusiasm has again and again carried the day against pounds of discipline ...
... experienced enough , or educated enough , or liberal - minded enough ; and a half smile flits over the face of the ... experience show conclusively an ounce of enthusiasm has again and again carried the day against pounds of discipline ...
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... experience and self- investigation , so that " learn to do by doing " may appropriately be termed the motto of each . By making the child at once the beginning , the center , and the end of the instruction , he forever knocked on the ...
... experience and self- investigation , so that " learn to do by doing " may appropriately be termed the motto of each . By making the child at once the beginning , the center , and the end of the instruction , he forever knocked on the ...
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... experience at an increasingly stupendous rate . We represent the highest high - water mark of the world's development , and it is not necessary our children should wander through the endless labyrinths by which people less favored have ...
... experience at an increasingly stupendous rate . We represent the highest high - water mark of the world's development , and it is not necessary our children should wander through the endless labyrinths by which people less favored have ...
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... experience , of ex- tended observation , and of much careful reading . I do not , however , claim the smallest right to dogmatize ; but these views have become my convictions , and are presented with the earnest desire that they may ...
... experience , of ex- tended observation , and of much careful reading . I do not , however , claim the smallest right to dogmatize ; but these views have become my convictions , and are presented with the earnest desire that they may ...
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Page 208 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 215 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 554 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 271 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 66 - 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 323 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 235 - If a teacher, though a genins, would attempt to "prove all things and hold fast to that which is good," he would keep on all through life proving things and would have no time to
Page 440 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 3 - Trustee shall be elected for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years, and...
Page 254 - In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces — or rather masks — that have looked out kindly upon one in casual encounters in the streets and highways. I love what Fuller beautifully calls — these