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... afford , was declared to be , even in re- ligious inculcation , the duty , nay more , the peculiar duty , of parents ; so , by the direct Word of God , it is announced that parents can perform that duty : -The Almighty never imposes on ...
... afford , was declared to be , even in re- ligious inculcation , the duty , nay more , the peculiar duty , of parents ; so , by the direct Word of God , it is announced that parents can perform that duty : -The Almighty never imposes on ...
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... afford * How must this right ( of sanctuary ) have enhanced the veneration for religious institutions ! How gladly must the victims of internal warfare have turned their eyes from the baronial castle , the dread and scourge of the ...
... afford * How must this right ( of sanctuary ) have enhanced the veneration for religious institutions ! How gladly must the victims of internal warfare have turned their eyes from the baronial castle , the dread and scourge of the ...
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... afford means to rectify all , or nearly all , such clerical mistakes , and the existence of the Scriptures in several languages has not failed to complete the task of emendation . The debt of posterity to the con- vents and monasteries ...
... afford means to rectify all , or nearly all , such clerical mistakes , and the existence of the Scriptures in several languages has not failed to complete the task of emendation . The debt of posterity to the con- vents and monasteries ...
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... afford in- struction to all children within it , and gratuitously to the indigent — but the majority of the communes were unable to provide salaries for competent schoolmasters , and the law remained inert . In 1830 , out of two hundred ...
... afford in- struction to all children within it , and gratuitously to the indigent — but the majority of the communes were unable to provide salaries for competent schoolmasters , and the law remained inert . In 1830 , out of two hundred ...
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... afford to drop any link : to lose sight of any sequence and to ignore this truth in education , would be no wiser than , in shewing a person an intricate road , which he is desired to remember , to transport him in the dark , across ...
... afford to drop any link : to lose sight of any sequence and to ignore this truth in education , would be no wiser than , in shewing a person an intricate road , which he is desired to remember , to transport him in the dark , across ...
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afford amongst Archbishop assert attendance Bible Bishop of Exeter Bishop of Newcastle called century Charlemagne child Christian Church of England clergy colony Commissioners Committee common Council declare Denominational Schools Denominational System districts ditto Divine doctrine duty educa established fact faith four furnished give Government grant hundred ignorance inculcation Inspector Ireland knowledge labor learning Lord Lord John Russell Lordship matter means ment mind moral Moreton Bay National Board National Education National School National System object offenders opinion parents parish persons pounds Presbyterians principle Privy Council Protestant prove pupils question quote read and write received religion religious instruction remarkable respect Roman Catholic salary scholars schoolmaster Scripture sect sectarian secular Silesia Sir George Gipps society South Wales Sydney system of education taught teachers teaching things thousand tion truth Wallace Wallace's words
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Page 268 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 223 - He paused, as if revolving in his soul Some weighty matter, then, with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, exclaimed — " O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind...
Page 68 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 62 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 77 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation, in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he, himself, have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 194 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 243 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Page 78 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Page 4 - That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Page 62 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.