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... person is the best teacher of Grammar who uses language himself with the greatest ease and effectiveness . The pupil's profi- ciency in the use of speech depends on his æsthetic tastes more than on the analytical powers of his mind . We ...
... person is the best teacher of Grammar who uses language himself with the greatest ease and effectiveness . The pupil's profi- ciency in the use of speech depends on his æsthetic tastes more than on the analytical powers of his mind . We ...
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... persons of inferiority , will if possible , find a less responsible and more lucrative employment . To a certain class of trustees , these low - priced teachers are particu- larly acceptable . With them the cheapest man is the best ...
... persons of inferiority , will if possible , find a less responsible and more lucrative employment . To a certain class of trustees , these low - priced teachers are particu- larly acceptable . With them the cheapest man is the best ...
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... persons start from Bristol , at the same time , and each travels at the rate of eight miles an hour , one to visit a place five degrees to the north , and the other a place five degrees to the west ; which would reach his journey's end ...
... persons start from Bristol , at the same time , and each travels at the rate of eight miles an hour , one to visit a place five degrees to the north , and the other a place five degrees to the west ; which would reach his journey's end ...
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... person in the State . The report is like all the Commissioner's efforts . He feels deeply , he speaks earnestly , he writes what he feels and thinks without any circumlocution or study for effect ; but yet he does effect much . If his ...
... person in the State . The report is like all the Commissioner's efforts . He feels deeply , he speaks earnestly , he writes what he feels and thinks without any circumlocution or study for effect ; but yet he does effect much . If his ...
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... persons whom we have met in our lives and shall again if our lives are spared . Parents , see that your boys read such books , and they will be wiser and better men . We know the authoress , the widow of a highly esteemed clergyman ...
... persons whom we have met in our lives and shall again if our lives are spared . Parents , see that your boys read such books , and they will be wiser and better men . We know the authoress , the widow of a highly esteemed clergyman ...
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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.