The R.I. Schoolmaster, Volume 111864 - Education |
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... expression is his associa- tions , more at home , in the street and in the school - yard , than in the school - room . That he will adopt the next slang phrase that goes current throughout Yankeedom is a predetermined fact which the ...
... expression is his associa- tions , more at home , in the street and in the school - yard , than in the school - room . That he will adopt the next slang phrase that goes current throughout Yankeedom is a predetermined fact which the ...
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... expression will not be very effectual as an example . Unless there is something taking in the teacher's use of language , it will be simply harmless , without power as an incentive . The negative virtue of committing no offence against ...
... expression will not be very effectual as an example . Unless there is something taking in the teacher's use of language , it will be simply harmless , without power as an incentive . The negative virtue of committing no offence against ...
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... expressing ideas in written language . Few persons fully comprehend the force of habit , and by habit I do not mean what is called a bad habit or a good habit , but that skill and facility which are acquired by constant practice . It is ...
... expressing ideas in written language . Few persons fully comprehend the force of habit , and by habit I do not mean what is called a bad habit or a good habit , but that skill and facility which are acquired by constant practice . It is ...
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... . Much will of course depend upon the age and attainments of the scholars ; and here the good judgment , the common sense of the teacher comes largely into play . A good way to cultivate definiteness of expression is , 28 GRAMMAR .
... . Much will of course depend upon the age and attainments of the scholars ; and here the good judgment , the common sense of the teacher comes largely into play . A good way to cultivate definiteness of expression is , 28 GRAMMAR .
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A good way to cultivate definiteness of expression is , to require them to tell , in writing , precisely how to perform division . I have often offered extra credits for a rule so full and definite that , suppos- ing me totally ignorant ...
A good way to cultivate definiteness of expression is , to require them to tell , in writing , precisely how to perform division . I have often offered extra credits for a rule so full and definite that , suppos- ing me totally ignorant ...
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Page 152 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Page 151 - AT THIS second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first.
Page 152 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes...
Page 169 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Page 152 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came...
Page 149 - Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high, Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie.
Page 27 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 123 - How they pale, Ancient myth and song and tale, In this wonder of our days, When the cruel rod of war Blossoms white with righteous law, And the wrath of man is praise...
Page 123 - Let us kneel: God's own voice is in that peal, And this spot is holy ground. Lord, forgive us! What are we, That our eyes this glory see, That our ears have heard the sound!
Page 38 - ... into the office of the Secretary of State, to be safely kept and delivered over, as soon as may be, to the President of the Senate.