District School Journal, of the State of New-York, Volume 10C. Van Benthuysen and Company, 1849 - Education |
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... institution ; but to ex- amine it in detail , would be foreign to our present purpose . Suffice it to say , there is no mechanism more curious , no truths in the whole range of physical science are more striking , than the anatomy and ...
... institution ; but to ex- amine it in detail , would be foreign to our present purpose . Suffice it to say , there is no mechanism more curious , no truths in the whole range of physical science are more striking , than the anatomy and ...
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... institution consecrated to the science of instruction , having spared no effort I trust to strengthen and enlarge your own capacities , and acquire rich stores of knowledge are about to become apostles of that science , and go forth to ...
... institution consecrated to the science of instruction , having spared no effort I trust to strengthen and enlarge your own capacities , and acquire rich stores of knowledge are about to become apostles of that science , and go forth to ...
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... institution be appreciated and the wisdom of its founders acknowledged . Experimental in its inception , its success ... institutions as this , and providing a sufficient number of compe- tent and qualified teachers to instruct the youth ...
... institution be appreciated and the wisdom of its founders acknowledged . Experimental in its inception , its success ... institutions as this , and providing a sufficient number of compe- tent and qualified teachers to instruct the youth ...
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... institution . accomplish will generally be properly appreciated ; school , the importance of the ends it is designed to but if it fail in the accomplishment of the work as- signed it , lukewarmness in regard to the great and true object ...
... institution . accomplish will generally be properly appreciated ; school , the importance of the ends it is designed to but if it fail in the accomplishment of the work as- signed it , lukewarmness in regard to the great and true object ...
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... institution , to our pro- fession and to the world . GENTLEMEN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE , to whom has been confided the direction and manage . ment of this Seminary , allow me to congratulate you on the eminent success which has ...
... institution , to our pro- fession and to the world . GENTLEMEN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE , to whom has been confided the direction and manage . ment of this Seminary , allow me to congratulate you on the eminent success which has ...
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Page 105 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured.
Page 78 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 105 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Page 47 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Page 33 - The pulsations of the air, once set in motion by the human voice, cease not to exist with the sounds to which they gave rise.
Page 80 - On wheels more swift than eagles' wings : Our life's a clock, and every gasp of breath Breathes forth a warning grief, till Time shall strike a death. How soon Our new-born light Attains to...
Page 56 - Or does he ever say, that there was not an interval of many ages betwixt the first act of creation, described in the first verse of the book of Genesis, and said to have been performed at the beginning; and those more detailed operations, the account of which commences at the second verse, and which are described to us as having been performed in so many days?
Page 33 - ... and in case a levy and sale shall be necessarily made by such collector, he shall be entitled to traveling fees, at the rate of...
Page 149 - The birds of fame have flown. Praise to the man ! A nation stood Beside his coffin with wet eyes, Her brave, her beautiful, her good, As when a loved one dies.
Page 94 - I behold most cheering indications of the near approach of that day, when all shall know the Lord, from the least unto the greatest.