Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..., Volume 18, Issues 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - Digital images |
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... language in all schools may well be taken to heart by the American people . To this whole class of illiterates the lack of ability to use the language of the country in reading and writing is like a sentence , perhaps for life , to a ...
... language in all schools may well be taken to heart by the American people . To this whole class of illiterates the lack of ability to use the language of the country in reading and writing is like a sentence , perhaps for life , to a ...
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... language , the great language of free- dom . It was imperfectly learned by the masses , but the upper class learned and used it with better effect than a considerable portion of the present inhabitants of the British Islands , and along ...
... language , the great language of free- dom . It was imperfectly learned by the masses , but the upper class learned and used it with better effect than a considerable portion of the present inhabitants of the British Islands , and along ...
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... language - teaching will hardly bring several millions of white Southern people up to the condition of the more intelli- gent pupils in these mission schools . Nowhere do the beautiful methods of language instruction , now a part of our ...
... language - teaching will hardly bring several millions of white Southern people up to the condition of the more intelli- gent pupils in these mission schools . Nowhere do the beautiful methods of language instruction , now a part of our ...
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... languages . The accomplished president of one of the Western State universities , a boy at the close of the war , living on the old Ball estate , where Mary Washington was born , felt the spirit of that vigorous old lady in the air ...
... languages . The accomplished president of one of the Western State universities , a boy at the close of the war , living on the old Ball estate , where Mary Washington was born , felt the spirit of that vigorous old lady in the air ...
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... language of a civilized people , and took on at least some apprehension of the only religion that ever proposed to break every yoke and proclaim all men the children of God . The several millions of nonslaveholding white people were not ...
... language of a civilized people , and took on at least some apprehension of the only religion that ever proposed to break every yoke and proclaim all men the children of God . The several millions of nonslaveholding white people were not ...
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Page 161 - ... to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings ; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections, and generous sentiments, among the people.
Page 161 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns...
Page 96 - For something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Page 64 - An Act for the further security of His " Majesty's person and Government and the Succession of the Crown " in the Heirs of the Late Princess Sophia, being Protestants and for " extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his
Page 53 - ... ages, and will endure while there are men; that no translation can do them justice, or give the pleasure found in reading the originals; that those languages contain all science; that one of them is become almost universal, being the language of learned men in all countries; and that to understand them is a distinguishing ornament; they may be thereby made desirous of learning those languages, and their industry sharpened in the acquisition of them.
Page 109 - I give one thousand thereof to the inhabitants of the town of Boston, in Massachusetts, and the other thousand to the inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, in trust, to and for the uses, intents, and purposes hereinafter mentioned and declared. The said sum of one thousand pounds sterling, if accepted by the inhabitants of the town of Boston, shall be managed under the direction of the selectmen, united with the ministers of the oldest Episcopalian, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches in...
Page 13 - Accustoming boys to read aloud what they do not first understand, is the cause of those even set tones so common among readers, which, when they have once got a habit of using, they find so difficult to correct ; by which means, among fifty readers, we scarcely find a good one. For want of good reading, pieces published with a view to influence the minds of men, for their own or the public benefit, lose half their force.
Page 6 - I found this method safest for myself and very embarrassing to those against whom I used it; therefore I took...
Page 11 - Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness...
Page 92 - Jefferson proposed. The Children of Israel in the Wilderness, led by a Cloud by day, and a Pillar of Fire by night...