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... modes of your own intellectual existence . I have just now ad- verted to the use of your experience in reference to the subjects of study . I speak of it now in reference to the impulses and workings of mind . And how may you turn the ...
... modes of your own intellectual existence . I have just now ad- verted to the use of your experience in reference to the subjects of study . I speak of it now in reference to the impulses and workings of mind . And how may you turn the ...
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... modes of instruction , and a selection after careful com- parison and judgment . Nothing that is written on the practical working of divers systems of instructions can be useless to you - but it is much more valuable to see than to read ...
... modes of instruction , and a selection after careful com- parison and judgment . Nothing that is written on the practical working of divers systems of instructions can be useless to you - but it is much more valuable to see than to read ...
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... modes of combination , and their adaptation to the different purposes of speech and styles of writing , with the modification of which they are susceptible , are not the inventions of art ; they originated in natural wants , they are ...
... modes of combination , and their adaptation to the different purposes of speech and styles of writing , with the modification of which they are susceptible , are not the inventions of art ; they originated in natural wants , they are ...
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... mode are mentioned . If a good , concise , clear , definition of each part of speech be learned , I would say there was foundation for the whole of a year's exercise in gram- mar . In the practice of distinguishing them many dif ...
... mode are mentioned . If a good , concise , clear , definition of each part of speech be learned , I would say there was foundation for the whole of a year's exercise in gram- mar . In the practice of distinguishing them many dif ...
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... mode of solution which will be best received by the pupil , adapt- ing itself to her state of capacity and acquirement , as- sociating itself with a principle you know she under- stands , or connecting itself by analogy with some other ...
... mode of solution which will be best received by the pupil , adapt- ing itself to her state of capacity and acquirement , as- sociating itself with a principle you know she under- stands , or connecting itself by analogy with some other ...
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Page 166 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth^ After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 244 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 166 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 166 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 9 - For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, and there a little...
Page 272 - If the soul be immortal, it requires to be cultivated with attention, not only for what we call the time of life, but for that which is to follow, I mean eternity ; and the least neglect in this point may be attended with endless consequences.
Page 166 - His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him, for other light she needed none In that...
Page 103 - ... des marchands, qui ruine le commerce en ruinant les hommes qui le font. Sur-tout n'entreprenez jamais de gêner le commerce pour le tourner selon vos vues. Il faut que le prince ne s'en mêle point, de peur de le gêner, et qu'il en laisse tout le profit à ses sujets qui en ont la peine ; - autrement il les découragera: il en tirera...
Page 166 - While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
Page 253 - For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish : to the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.