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... knowledge generally diffused among the people is the surest means of securing the rights of man , of promoting the public prosperity , and perpetuating the liberties of a country . 2d . As civil community is a kind of joint tenancy , in ...
... knowledge generally diffused among the people is the surest means of securing the rights of man , of promoting the public prosperity , and perpetuating the liberties of a country . 2d . As civil community is a kind of joint tenancy , in ...
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... knowledge as contained in books and taught in schools , but they are to be instructed in the great duties of life - duties belonging to every sphere in which moral and intelligent agents may be called to act . The vital prin- ciples ...
... knowledge as contained in books and taught in schools , but they are to be instructed in the great duties of life - duties belonging to every sphere in which moral and intelligent agents may be called to act . The vital prin- ciples ...
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... knowledge they acquire . I would recommend additional tests in the examination of our schools , that we may ascertain , not only what pupils know , but what they can do . It is not an un- common occurrence to meet with scholars who have ...
... knowledge they acquire . I would recommend additional tests in the examination of our schools , that we may ascertain , not only what pupils know , but what they can do . It is not an un- common occurrence to meet with scholars who have ...
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... knowledge of the physical appearance of every part of the world . We commend the book to the careful perusal of teachers , feeling assured they will not only be pleased with it but will derive much useful knowledge by the study of it ...
... knowledge of the physical appearance of every part of the world . We commend the book to the careful perusal of teachers , feeling assured they will not only be pleased with it but will derive much useful knowledge by the study of it ...
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... knowledge , of uncorruptible integrity , and whose whole soul and being was devoted to the elevation of man and woman from every sordid and degrading propensity , and to the breaking every yoke of oppression in church or state . He was ...
... knowledge , of uncorruptible integrity , and whose whole soul and being was devoted to the elevation of man and woman from every sordid and degrading propensity , and to the breaking every yoke of oppression in church or state . He was ...
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Page 140 - A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 55 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 130 - Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With now and then a ruder shock, Which made our very bedsteads rock. We heard the loosened clapboards tost, The board-nails snapping in the frost ; And on us, through the unplastered wall, Felt the light sifted snow-flakes fall. But sleep stole on, as sleep will do When hearts are light and life is new...
Page 235 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Page 75 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 137 - Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches flow, And work the simple vassals mickle woe ; For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shuddered, and their pulse beat low; And as they looked, they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view.
Page 139 - A word — a look — has crushed to earth Full many a budding flower, Which, had a smile but owned its birth, Would bless life's darkest hour. Then deem it not an idle thing A pleasant word to speak ; The face you wear, the thoughts you bring, A heart may heal or break.
Page 10 - He may also delegate part of his parental authority, during his life, to the tutor or schoolmaster of his child; who is then in loco parentis, and has such a portion of the power of the parent committed to his charge, viz.: that of restraint and correction, as may be necessary to answer the purposes for which he is employed.
Page 103 - WHEELER'S Noted Names of Fiction, Dictionary of. Including also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations often referred to in Literature and Conversation.
Page 247 - The twig is so easily bended, I have banished the rule and the rod; I have taught them the goodness of knowledge, They have taught me the goodness of God.