School Interests and Duties: Developed from Page's "Mutual Duties of Parents and Teachers", from Various Public Reports and Documents, and from Bulletins of the National Bureau of Education |
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... story to any who will hear it . If his parents are inconsiderate and encourage him to go on , he is tempted to overreach the truth on the one hand , and to stop short of it on the other , till he succeeds in having the combustible ...
... story to any who will hear it . If his parents are inconsiderate and encourage him to go on , he is tempted to overreach the truth on the one hand , and to stop short of it on the other , till he succeeds in having the combustible ...
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... story of The Great Stone Face ; sometimes these thoughts are crystallized into a beautiful poem , sometimes wrought out in a fascinating novel . Parents must see to it that the boys and girls learn to love to read of a beautiful life ...
... story of The Great Stone Face ; sometimes these thoughts are crystallized into a beautiful poem , sometimes wrought out in a fascinating novel . Parents must see to it that the boys and girls learn to love to read of a beautiful life ...
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... story plainly and frankly , and the father , if he be a gentleman , will thank you for your faithfulness to him ; and if he have any sense of justice , he will be ready to coöperate with you for his child's improvement . The main duties ...
... story plainly and frankly , and the father , if he be a gentleman , will thank you for your faithfulness to him ; and if he have any sense of justice , he will be ready to coöperate with you for his child's improvement . The main duties ...
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... story goes - and the school having been in session for a few weeks , he visited it one afternoon , full of the idea of making an impression . A class in reading was reciting . The subject matter of the selection in hand was historical ...
... story goes - and the school having been in session for a few weeks , he visited it one afternoon , full of the idea of making an impression . A class in reading was reciting . The subject matter of the selection in hand was historical ...
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... stories admit the requisite surface of glass without reducing the piers to an impracticable slenderness , and where artificial or forced ventilation keeps the air fresh . without effort , small buildings of cheap construction can , as a ...
... stories admit the requisite surface of glass without reducing the piers to an impracticable slenderness , and where artificial or forced ventilation keeps the air fresh . without effort , small buildings of cheap construction can , as a ...
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Page 234 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land!
Page 138 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 224 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 222 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 132 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 224 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 211 - This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Page 136 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 223 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 225 - ... the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...