The R.I. Schoolmaster, Volume 121866 |
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... Lessons comprise the best elocutionary pieces in the language . It is eminently a book FOR THE TIMES AND UP WITH THE TIMES any competing work . - far in advance of SARGENT'S NEW PRONOUNCING SPELLER , With a New and Improved System of ...
... Lessons comprise the best elocutionary pieces in the language . It is eminently a book FOR THE TIMES AND UP WITH THE TIMES any competing work . - far in advance of SARGENT'S NEW PRONOUNCING SPELLER , With a New and Improved System of ...
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... Lessons of practical wisdom , drawn from the past , should be enforced with all the persuasive earnestness of a divine teacher . Admonitions and warnings , coming from the moral wrecks strewn so thickly along the pathway of life ...
... Lessons of practical wisdom , drawn from the past , should be enforced with all the persuasive earnestness of a divine teacher . Admonitions and warnings , coming from the moral wrecks strewn so thickly along the pathway of life ...
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... lesson the rules of spelling are given and these rules are at once applied , which fastens in the mind of the pupil the meaning of the rule . We commend these exercises to the critical examination of teachers . J. H. COLTON'S AMERICAN ...
... lesson the rules of spelling are given and these rules are at once applied , which fastens in the mind of the pupil the meaning of the rule . We commend these exercises to the critical examination of teachers . J. H. COLTON'S AMERICAN ...
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... lesson with Fairy accompaniments . CUSHIONS AND CORNERS ; or , Holidays at Old Orchard . By Mrs. R. J. Greene . Boston ... LESSONS FROM The World of Matter and the World of MiND . By Theodore Parker . Selected from notes of unpublished ...
... lesson with Fairy accompaniments . CUSHIONS AND CORNERS ; or , Holidays at Old Orchard . By Mrs. R. J. Greene . Boston ... LESSONS FROM The World of Matter and the World of MiND . By Theodore Parker . Selected from notes of unpublished ...
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... lessons with amusement ; a very pretty game . They also publish Art Games of Painters and Paintings , Ancient and Modern , an instructive and entertaining game . The same pnblishers have a great variety of tablet cards from tiny ones of ...
... lessons with amusement ; a very pretty game . They also publish Art Games of Painters and Paintings , Ancient and Modern , an instructive and entertaining game . The same pnblishers have a great variety of tablet cards from tiny ones of ...
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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.