Transactions of the ... Annual Meeting of the Western Literary Institute, and College of Professional Teachers, Band 8Josiah Drake, 1839 |
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... a manly literature , or rooted out the han- kering of the human heart after the pomp of fashion and folly , and the parade of wealth .. However desirable reform in matters of education may be , PRESIDENT PICKET'S ADDRess . 39-
... a manly literature , or rooted out the han- kering of the human heart after the pomp of fashion and folly , and the parade of wealth .. However desirable reform in matters of education may be , PRESIDENT PICKET'S ADDRess . 39-
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... matters rests mainly with the people . When they learn what the human mind may be made by proper cultiva- tion ; when they learn that it ought not be trusted with every jack of all trades ; when they can appreciate philosophic instruc ...
... matters rests mainly with the people . When they learn what the human mind may be made by proper cultiva- tion ; when they learn that it ought not be trusted with every jack of all trades ; when they can appreciate philosophic instruc ...
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... matter of course , that the habit in time extends itself to all portions of the sacred word , and at length it obtains so com- plete a mastery , that the reader is rather surprised than otherwise , when a real thought happens by some ...
... matter of course , that the habit in time extends itself to all portions of the sacred word , and at length it obtains so com- plete a mastery , that the reader is rather surprised than otherwise , when a real thought happens by some ...
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... matter . This postulate will not be denied ; and we have only to enquire what circumstances are most favorable to the develop- ment of mind . Here we may safely consult the lights of antiquity . At what period and under what ...
... matter . This postulate will not be denied ; and we have only to enquire what circumstances are most favorable to the develop- ment of mind . Here we may safely consult the lights of antiquity . At what period and under what ...
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... matter , and if the action of our own institutions afford causes more diversified and similar to those which produced the highest mental development in Greece , why may we not look for the same issue ? We may expect it , should our ...
... matter , and if the action of our own institutions afford causes more diversified and similar to those which produced the highest mental development in Greece , why may we not look for the same issue ? We may expect it , should our ...
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Seite 47 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Seite 45 - He that planted the ear, shall He not hear ? He that formed the eye, shall He not see...
Seite 49 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Seite 237 - I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Seite 254 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Seite 46 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Seite 173 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Seite 46 - Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Seite 49 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Seite 61 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.