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... highest practical doing in this world . A teacher may show faith and hope in the views of the world which he expresses , and in his deal- ings with his school , in his teaching of history , in his com- ments on the reading lesson , in ...
... highest practical doing in this world . A teacher may show faith and hope in the views of the world which he expresses , and in his deal- ings with his school , in his teaching of history , in his com- ments on the reading lesson , in ...
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... highest virtue , Charity , has , of all the virtues , the largest family of synonyms : humility , considerate- ness , heroism , gratitude , friendliness , and various shades of love in the family ( parental and filial , fraternal and ...
... highest virtue , Charity , has , of all the virtues , the largest family of synonyms : humility , considerate- ness , heroism , gratitude , friendliness , and various shades of love in the family ( parental and filial , fraternal and ...
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... highest truth , and at the same time , they exhibit to us the spirit and the method we should employ in its pur- suit . We must enter into the thought of ancient times through ancient forms of speech . Translations inform us what modern ...
... highest truth , and at the same time , they exhibit to us the spirit and the method we should employ in its pur- suit . We must enter into the thought of ancient times through ancient forms of speech . Translations inform us what modern ...
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... rulers . If rightfully organized and rightfully conducted they will do what is possible towards directing the people to the highest individual and social good . IV . TEACHING GEOGRAPHY BY THE TOPICAL METHOD . * 60 MR . DICKINSON'S ADDRESS .
... rulers . If rightfully organized and rightfully conducted they will do what is possible towards directing the people to the highest individual and social good . IV . TEACHING GEOGRAPHY BY THE TOPICAL METHOD . * 60 MR . DICKINSON'S ADDRESS .
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... highest duty of the citizen presents itself , ―to devote him- self and his property to the defence of the nation . With this the elementary study culminates at the close of the elementary school course . If the course ends here , as it ...
... highest duty of the citizen presents itself , ―to devote him- self and his property to the defence of the nation . With this the elementary study culminates at the close of the elementary school course . If the course ends here , as it ...
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Page 82 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 238 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod, And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Page 28 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 27 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 162 - Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round ; In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.
Page 21 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Page 163 - I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Page 69 - I shall confine myself, however, to education in the narrower sense ; the culture which each generation purposely gives to those who are to be its successors, in order to qualify them for at least keeping up, and if possible for raising, the level of improvement which has been attained.
Page 191 - The instruction of the people in every kind of knowledge that can be of use to them in the practice of their moral duties as men, citizens, and Christians, and of their political and civil duties as members of society and freemen...
Page 162 - Large before, the country has now, by recent events, become vastly larger. This Republic now extends, with a vast breadth, across the whole Continent. The two great seas of the world wash the one and the other shore. We realize, on a mighty scale, the beautiful description of the ornamental...