The R.I. Schoolmaster, Volume 111864 - Education |
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... their construction . Scholars will never learn the use of language by taking language to pieces and pointing out the relations of its different parts , any more than a man will learn to build houses by tearing THE ...
... their construction . Scholars will never learn the use of language by taking language to pieces and pointing out the relations of its different parts , any more than a man will learn to build houses by tearing THE ...
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... relations of words . I con- sider them highly benefical and necessary to a perfect knowledge of the language . My objection is that they are forced upon scholars too soon , long before they are prepared to take them , to the exclusion ...
... relations of words . I con- sider them highly benefical and necessary to a perfect knowledge of the language . My objection is that they are forced upon scholars too soon , long before they are prepared to take them , to the exclusion ...
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... RELATION OF THE HOME TO THE SCHOOL . WHILE it is justly claimed that there has been a very great im- provement in ... RELATION OF HOME TO THE SCHOOL . 33 THE RELATION OF THE HOME TO THE SCHOOL. ...
... RELATION OF THE HOME TO THE SCHOOL . WHILE it is justly claimed that there has been a very great im- provement in ... RELATION OF HOME TO THE SCHOOL . 33 THE RELATION OF THE HOME TO THE SCHOOL. ...
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... the best part of a child's education is progressing when both he and his teacher are unconscious that he is doing anything in that direction . But how shall parents most successfully co - operate with 34 RELATION OF HOME TO THE SCHOOL .
... the best part of a child's education is progressing when both he and his teacher are unconscious that he is doing anything in that direction . But how shall parents most successfully co - operate with 34 RELATION OF HOME TO THE SCHOOL .
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... relation which he holds to the child .. There is a natural tendency in most children to a spirit of insubordination , more or less flagrant . We see an exhibition of it in all our families , in all our schools , and in all our ...
... relation which he holds to the child .. There is a natural tendency in most children to a spirit of insubordination , more or less flagrant . We see an exhibition of it in all our families , in all our schools , and in all our ...
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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.