District School Journal, of the State of New-York, Volume 10C. Van Benthuysen and Company, 1849 - Education |
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... various kinds , - The silver birch , whose fragrant boughs perfumed The air ; and here , upon a mossy mound , Its slender tassels swaying in the wind , Or carpeting the earth with its fair flowers , The noble chesnut reared its graceful ...
... various kinds , - The silver birch , whose fragrant boughs perfumed The air ; and here , upon a mossy mound , Its slender tassels swaying in the wind , Or carpeting the earth with its fair flowers , The noble chesnut reared its graceful ...
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... various means of water communication in the State , in going to and from the school . The Summer Term commences on the second Monday in May , and continues twenty weeks , with an intermission of one week from the first of July . The ...
... various means of water communication in the State , in going to and from the school . The Summer Term commences on the second Monday in May , and continues twenty weeks , with an intermission of one week from the first of July . The ...
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... various departments of composition until she read them aloud . Most persons of susceptible minds can testify to the same thing from their own self - knowledge . We do not underrate the advantages of silent study . Far from it . They are ...
... various departments of composition until she read them aloud . Most persons of susceptible minds can testify to the same thing from their own self - knowledge . We do not underrate the advantages of silent study . Far from it . They are ...
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... various impersonations of character , as well as the diversified sentiments , connected with a given passage , must , at the time , have a still higher measure of that feeling to which we have referred , and upon which the power of ...
... various impersonations of character , as well as the diversified sentiments , connected with a given passage , must , at the time , have a still higher measure of that feeling to which we have referred , and upon which the power of ...
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... various and manifold . He has appetites and him . He is himself an original source of influ- passions pertaining to the body ; faculties and ence . He stands firmly fixed upon the adaman- capacities which we call intellectual ; he has ...
... various and manifold . He has appetites and him . He is himself an original source of influ- passions pertaining to the body ; faculties and ence . He stands firmly fixed upon the adaman- capacities which we call intellectual ; he 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.