The American Journal of Education, Volume 2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 |
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... astronomers , or geometricians , a knowledge of the principles on which the sciences are built , and the reasonings ... astronomical discoveries , or the sublime specula- tions of geometry , is emphatically doing good to others , as he ...
... astronomers , or geometricians , a knowledge of the principles on which the sciences are built , and the reasonings ... astronomical discoveries , or the sublime specula- tions of geometry , is emphatically doing good to others , as he ...
Page 314
... astronomical science . But , the tendency of his mind was , as I have said , to the practical in knowledge . His study was to simplify science , -to make it accessible to common minds ; and , in my opinion , his elementary books are ...
... astronomical science . But , the tendency of his mind was , as I have said , to the practical in knowledge . His study was to simplify science , -to make it accessible to common minds ; and , in my opinion , his elementary books are ...
Page 361
... astronomical clock at Cambridge beats time in all the railroad depots at Boston ; and but a few weeks since , the Dudley Observatory at Albany , proposed to supply the city of New York with time , the observatory drawing upon the stars ...
... astronomical clock at Cambridge beats time in all the railroad depots at Boston ; and but a few weeks since , the Dudley Observatory at Albany , proposed to supply the city of New York with time , the observatory drawing upon the stars ...
Page 373
... astronomical ob- servatory . Yale , to this time , has none . The temporary arrange- ment on College grounds , where the Clarke telescope stands , merits many honorable words for directing early attention to this subject , and for its ...
... astronomical ob- servatory . Yale , to this time , has none . The temporary arrange- ment on College grounds , where the Clarke telescope stands , merits many honorable words for directing early attention to this subject , and for its ...
Page 593
... Astronomical Ob- servatory , with such instruments and agents as would meet the present demands of astronomical science . As an earnest of the success which should ultimately crown the efforts of the gentlemen who especially committed ...
... Astronomical Ob- servatory , with such instruments and agents as would meet the present demands of astronomical science . As an earnest of the success which should ultimately crown the efforts of the gentlemen who especially committed ...
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Page 465 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 409 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
Page 65 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 73 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 617 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 64 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 82 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed...
Page 75 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 59 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 60 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...