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... present acquirements at you have been diligent and judi- you to the end of your course . you will find an imperative necessity con- vide fresh material , continually to put Your wants will increase as you capabilities of your position ...
... present acquirements at you have been diligent and judi- you to the end of your course . you will find an imperative necessity con- vide fresh material , continually to put Your wants will increase as you capabilities of your position ...
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... present acquirements ( though I know that you have been diligent and judi- cious ) will supply you to the end of your course . As you advance you will find an imperative necessity con- tinually to provide fresh material , continually to ...
... present acquirements ( though I know that you have been diligent and judi- cious ) will supply you to the end of your course . As you advance you will find an imperative necessity con- tinually to provide fresh material , continually to ...
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... present so unreasonably required . But whilst you will not consider the course and cha- racter of your own studies and those of your pupils the same , it is your experience that is to be her director . It is as you shall have explored ...
... present so unreasonably required . But whilst you will not consider the course and cha- racter of your own studies and those of your pupils the same , it is your experience that is to be her director . It is as you shall have explored ...
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... Be thoroughly conversant with your own intellectual history ; it will furnish you with more avail- able wisdom than all the abstract principles you could gather from every conceivable source . It will present a GENERAL REMARKS . 7.
... Be thoroughly conversant with your own intellectual history ; it will furnish you with more avail- able wisdom than all the abstract principles you could gather from every conceivable source . It will present a GENERAL REMARKS . 7.
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Margaret Thornley. gather from every conceivable source . It will present a thousand phenomena of mind and feeling which the science of metaphysics never attempted to explain , and of which consciousness is the better interpreter . Did ...
Margaret Thornley. gather from every conceivable source . It will present a thousand phenomena of mind and feeling which the science of metaphysics never attempted to explain , and of which consciousness is the better interpreter . Did ...
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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.