American Annals of Education and Instruction, and Journal of Literary Institutions, Том 1

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Allen & Ticknor, 1831
 

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Сторінка 167 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Сторінка 139 - Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Сторінка 168 - Feel it again, and compare it with the piece of sponge that is tied to your slate, and then tell me what you perceive in the glass. C. It is smooth, it is hard.
Сторінка 383 - We were never so struck with the importance of having reading books for female schools, adapted particularly to that express purpose, as while looking over the pages of this selection. The eminent success of the compiler in teaching this branch, to which we can personally bear testimony, is sufficient evidence of the character of the work, considered as a selection of lessons in elocution; they are, in general, admirably adapted to cultivate the amiable and gentle traits of the female character,...
Сторінка 123 - Experience has taught me that indolence in young persons is so directly opposite to their natural disposition to activity, that unless it is the consequence of bad education, it is almost invariably connected with some constitutional defect.
Сторінка 19 - ... knowledge. Now why should not this experience be resorted to as an auxiliary in the education of youth ! Why not make this department of human exertion, a profession, as well as those of divinity, law, and medicine? Why not have an Institution for the training up of Instructors for their sphere of labor, as well as institutions to prepare young men for the duties of the divine, the lawyer, or the physician...
Сторінка 405 - Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect." But if it is employed, as it generally is, to mean the desire of superiority to others and of the honor connected with it, I know not how it can be robbed of its poison. What more noble ambition than that desire to be as Gods, which drove angels from heaven, and brought down a curse upon the earth!
Сторінка 381 - ... meetings of the town, and a town clerk, a town council to consist of not less than three nor more than seven members...
Сторінка 63 - For on the contrary you will find the greater number of men, both ready in conceiving and quick in learning, since such quickness is natural to man; and as birds are born to fly, horses to run and wild beasts to show fierceness, so to us peculiarly belong activity and sagacity of understanding, whence the origin of the mind is thought to be from heaven.
Сторінка 20 - ... principles of human nature , by making it, in the first place, a distinct profession or calling ; then, by yielding to those who have long been engaged in it, the deference which their experience justly demands ; and finally, by compelling those who would wish to adopt it, to...

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