Transactions of the ... Annual Meeting of the Western Literary Institute, and College of Professional Teachers, Band 5Josiah Drake, 1836 |
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... Latin and Greek languages , which cover so great a space of history , ancient and modern . To understand history well , you must learn these languages ; but all minds are not capable of acquiring them between ten and sixteen ; and using ...
... Latin and Greek languages , which cover so great a space of history , ancient and modern . To understand history well , you must learn these languages ; but all minds are not capable of acquiring them between ten and sixteen ; and using ...
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... , mathematical , moral and metaphysical sciences . He would by no means discourage the early cultivation of language and the mathematics , especially the Latin and English tongues , 11 and the elements of geometry ; but he would blend.
... , mathematical , moral and metaphysical sciences . He would by no means discourage the early cultivation of language and the mathematics , especially the Latin and English tongues , 11 and the elements of geometry ; but he would blend.
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... Latin are called the dead lan- guages , because they are not the common or every - day language of any nation or people whatever . They are always the same , while living languages are ever in a state of fluctuation ; and in some , in a ...
... Latin are called the dead lan- guages , because they are not the common or every - day language of any nation or people whatever . They are always the same , while living languages are ever in a state of fluctuation ; and in some , in a ...
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... Latin or Greek , which the learned every where under- stood , and by which , in all ages , they have been able to hold inter - communication , which could not otherwise have existed ; and through which many valuable works have come down ...
... Latin or Greek , which the learned every where under- stood , and by which , in all ages , they have been able to hold inter - communication , which could not otherwise have existed ; and through which many valuable works have come down ...
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... Latin writers , remain as yet untranslated , and are therefore altogether hidden from the mere English reader . Some of these treat of the natural sciences , as philosophy , astronomy , etc. , and may justly be considered as very able ...
... Latin writers , remain as yet untranslated , and are therefore altogether hidden from the mere English reader . Some of these treat of the natural sciences , as philosophy , astronomy , etc. , and may justly be considered as very able ...
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Seite 1 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Seite 69 - And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things : and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
Seite 69 - And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Seite 65 - Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Seite 239 - Every man that has ever undertaken to instruct others can tell what slow advances he has been able to make, and how much patience it requires to recall vagrant inattention, to stimulate sluggish indifference, and to rectify absurd misapprehension.
Seite 48 - Nothing can be politically right that is morally wrong ; and no necessity can ever sanctify a law that is contrary to equity. Virtue is the soul of a Republic. To promote this, laws for the suppression of vice and immorality will be as ineffectual as the increase and enlargement of jails.
Seite 223 - On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Seite 235 - ... not likely to have what is usually termed a command of hand, — a power to execute well — without combining with it a correct idea of the forms of the letters. Execution, then, ought much rather to be the object of the teacher's attention than the mere forms of the letters. The growing taste of a pupil will gradually correct the imperfect, awkward, or fantastic forms he may have given his letters ; but it is not so easy to acquire a masterly command of hand by solitary practice, where the...
Seite 33 - The Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers, according to its constitution adapted in 1834, states: "Whereas the Convention of Teachers assembled in Cincinnati, deeply impressed with the importance of organizing their profession in the Valley of the Mississippi, by a permanent association, in order to promote the sacred interests of Education so far as may be confided to their care, by collecting the distant members, advancing their mutual improvement and elevating the profession...