Assistant of Education, Volume 8T. Baker, 1827 - Education |
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Page 256 - The impotent man answered him, Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool : but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Page 75 - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 24 - That first he wrought, and afterward he taught. Out of the gospel he the wordes caught, And this figure he added yet therto, That if gold ruste, what shuld iren do 1 For if a preest be foule, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust...
Page 173 - Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 24 - PERSONE of a toun: But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, . That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 123 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 183 - ... direct it to proper objects ; to exercise their ingenuity and invention ; to cultivate in their minds a turn for speculation, and at the same time preserve their attention alive to the objects around them ; to awaken their sensibilities to the beauties of nature, and to inspire them with a relish for intellectual enjoyment, — these form but a part of the business of education ; and yet the execution even of thif!
Page 172 - Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
Page 216 - And therewith weepingly he stood up again, and said with a mighty voice, " Lo, good people, lo ; for the breaking of God's law and his great commandments they never yet cursed me ; but for their own laws and traditions most cruelly do they handle both me and other men. And therefore both they and their laws, by the promise of God, shall utterly be destroyed.
Page 290 - Love not the world, neither the things of the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.