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Entire sentences might thus be framed of words anomalous in formation and government , both in Greek and Latin . Such " exercises in irregulars " would be invaluable for senior boys , and something of the same kind would form no bad ...
Entire sentences might thus be framed of words anomalous in formation and government , both in Greek and Latin . Such " exercises in irregulars " would be invaluable for senior boys , and something of the same kind would form no bad ...
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Then , when the boy is placed before a new and searching interrogator , he is confounded at his own ignorance ... or myself to think that even my head boys knew their grammars well enough : by keeping up the practice of grammar ...
Then , when the boy is placed before a new and searching interrogator , he is confounded at his own ignorance ... or myself to think that even my head boys knew their grammars well enough : by keeping up the practice of grammar ...
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oppression on the minds of the boys . Many of them subsequently went to the highest public schools ; and I never knew one who did not express himself as deeply indebted to me for persevering in the plan to which I have alluded , and who ...
oppression on the minds of the boys . Many of them subsequently went to the highest public schools ; and I never knew one who did not express himself as deeply indebted to me for persevering in the plan to which I have alluded , and who ...
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Indeed , a small work is much better adapted for boys than a large one . All that they want is to find the names that occur in the ordinary books that they read , and as much good information as the limits of the book will allow .
Indeed , a small work is much better adapted for boys than a large one . All that they want is to find the names that occur in the ordinary books that they read , and as much good information as the limits of the book will allow .
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NEW QUESTIONS , TO BE ANSWERED IN OUR NUMBER FOR FEBRUARY , 1851 . Ques . 87.- Proposed by Mr. O'Clazey , Durham . A man and a boy are engaged to dig a trench . The man could finish it in 12 days , and the boy in 20 ; -supposing ...
NEW QUESTIONS , TO BE ANSWERED IN OUR NUMBER FOR FEBRUARY , 1851 . Ques . 87.- Proposed by Mr. O'Clazey , Durham . A man and a boy are engaged to dig a trench . The man could finish it in 12 days , and the boy in 20 ; -supposing ...
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Page 58 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 228 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 225 - For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me : and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Page 127 - And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
Page 79 - ... when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up.
Page 127 - ... but Christ being come, an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building ; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
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Page 78 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 53 - Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature : The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
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