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... respecting parental duties , coupled with this re- ward for fulfilment of them , " 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 ...
... respecting parental duties , coupled with this re- ward for fulfilment of them , " 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 ...
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... respects an exposition of the duty of the teacher in the present age , I shall now resume my historical sketch of those educational institutions which have at dif- ferent times and in different countries been formed for the training of ...
... respects an exposition of the duty of the teacher in the present age , I shall now resume my historical sketch of those educational institutions which have at dif- ferent times and in different countries been formed for the training of ...
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... respect is our Scripture ) is religiously adhered to . This remarkable feature in the Jewish character can be pointed out , not only now , in days of toleration , but of old , when persecution was rife . In the year 1492 , so celebrated ...
... respect is our Scripture ) is religiously adhered to . This remarkable feature in the Jewish character can be pointed out , not only now , in days of toleration , but of old , when persecution was rife . In the year 1492 , so celebrated ...
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... respect in Rome , and the giant among her great men , the most soaring of her eagle troop , was not backward to declare his opinion of the high nature of a teacher's office . Cæsar granted the rights of citizenship to schoolmasters ...
... respect in Rome , and the giant among her great men , the most soaring of her eagle troop , was not backward to declare his opinion of the high nature of a teacher's office . Cæsar granted the rights of citizenship to schoolmasters ...
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... the entire people became nominally Christian . I must not , however , pass over the conduct of Valentinian with respect to public schools . I have already stated that Constantine gave no power to NATIONAL EDUCATION . 21.
... the entire people became nominally Christian . I must not , however , pass over the conduct of Valentinian with respect to public schools . I have already stated that Constantine gave no power to NATIONAL EDUCATION . 21.
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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.