| Horace Mann - Education - 1845 - 352 pages
...popular treatise on astronomy and geology, and from that day, new heavens will bend over their head, and a new earth will spread out beneath their feet....and pipes, — to say nothing of the pleasures and the utility it will realize. Indeed, when a scholar, at the age of sixteen or eighteen years, leaves... | |
| Education - 1854 - 862 pages
...mind accustomed to go rejoicing over the splendid regions of the material universe, or to luxuriate iu the richer worlds of thought, can never afterwards read like a wooden machine, — a thins; of cranks and pipes, — to say nothing of the pleasures and the utility it wilf realize. Indeed,... | |
| Wisconsin. Dept. of Public Instruction - 1858 - 866 pages
...all the days of his remaining life. Let boys or girls of sixteen years of age, read an intelligible and popular treatise on astronomy and geology, and...and pipes, — to say nothing of the pleasures and the utility it will realize." ' If we wisely provide School Libraries of appropriate books for our... | |
| Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1859 - 1284 pages
...all the days of his remaining life. Let boys or girls of sixteen years of age, read an intelligible and popular treatise on astronomy and geology, and...and pipes, — to say nothing of the pleasures and the utility it will realize." If we wisely provide School Libraries of appropriate books for our children,... | |
| California State Teachers' Institute - Education - 1861 - 498 pages
...all the days of his remaining life. Let boys or girls of sixteen years of age read an intelligible and popular treatise on astronomy and geology, and...afterwards read like a wooden machine — a thing of eranks and pipes — to say nothing of the pleasures and the utility it will realize." 61 favor of... | |
| Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1865 - 820 pages
...all the days of his life. Let boys or girls of sixteen years of age, read an intelligent and popuar treatise on astronomy and geology, and from that day...nothing of the pleasures and utility it will realize." — Report for 1859. One may well wonder at the apathy exhibited by many of the districts and townships... | |
| Horace Mann - Education - 1867 - 600 pages
...all the days of his remaining life. Let boys or girls of sixteen years of age read an intelligible and popular treatise on astronomy and geology, and...and pipes, — to say nothing of the pleasures and the utility it will realize. Indeed, when a scholar, at the age of sixteen or eighteen years, leaves... | |
| John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 412 pages
...the days of his remaining life. 6. " Let boys or girls of sixteen years of age read an intelligible and popular treatise on astronomy and geology, and...and pipes — to say nothing of the pleasures and the utility it will realize." 7. POEMS. 1. Now I tell you a poem must be kept and used, like a meerschaum... | |
| John Swett - Elocution - 1884 - 412 pages
...new heavens will bend over their heads, and a new earth will spread out beneath their feet. A miud accustomed to go rejoicing over the splendid regions...of thought, can never afterwards read like a wooden machine—a thing of cranks and pipes—to say nothing of the pleasures and the utility it will realize."... | |
| Horace Mann - Education - 1891 - 604 pages
...intelligible and popular treatise on astronomy and geology, and from that day, new heavens will beml over their heads, and a new earth will spread out...and pipes, — to say nothing of the pleasures and the utility it will realize. Indeed, when a • scholar, at the age of sixteen or eighteen years, leaves... | |
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