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... mean the injurious effect ultimately produced upon the mind , by the necessity of habitually guessing , at that which , after all the learned research of so many generations , is yet unsettled and in doubt , for want of some simple ...
... mean the injurious effect ultimately produced upon the mind , by the necessity of habitually guessing , at that which , after all the learned research of so many generations , is yet unsettled and in doubt , for want of some simple ...
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... means my intention to interfere with the established and popular system of spelling ; in which , while there is indeed much to condemn , there are some things to commend and admire . I am fully aware 6 THE AMERICAN REPERTORY .
... means my intention to interfere with the established and popular system of spelling ; in which , while there is indeed much to condemn , there are some things to commend and admire . I am fully aware 6 THE AMERICAN REPERTORY .
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... means its most important use : - and third , it is important , that the attention of the eye be directed to a critical supervision over the regular and orderly formation of the stenographic letters , which are to represent the sounds ...
... means its most important use : - and third , it is important , that the attention of the eye be directed to a critical supervision over the regular and orderly formation of the stenographic letters , which are to represent the sounds ...
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... means by which the defect may be remedied . This I shall now attempt , after which I shall confine myself more strictly to the sub- ject of short writing . Let us for a moment turn our attention , to the man- ner in which children gain ...
... means by which the defect may be remedied . This I shall now attempt , after which I shall confine myself more strictly to the sub- ject of short writing . Let us for a moment turn our attention , to the man- ner in which children gain ...
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... means of this fluency , is enabled to hurry through volumes of learned lumber - perhaps to frame sentences like an automaton grammar mill- while his learning is at best the chaff , without the wheat - and why so ? Because the subjects ...
... means of this fluency , is enabled to hurry through volumes of learned lumber - perhaps to frame sentences like an automaton grammar mill- while his learning is at best the chaff , without the wheat - and why so ? Because the subjects ...
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Popular passages
Page 72 - And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea : for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, " Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Page 85 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 83 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 83 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep, And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light ; and there was light.
Page 70 - And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, IT is WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.
Page 84 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 68 - Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end ; but establish the just : for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
Page 85 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 84 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 71 - And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee : and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.