Transactions of the ... Annual Meeting of the Western Literary Institute, and College of Professional Teachers, Band 6Josiah Drake, 1837 |
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... organs are adequate to utterance ; but that capacity does not , at the same time , lead him to the analysis of words , the grammatical construction of a sentence , or the thought conveyed by it , any more than it would lead him to the ...
... organs are adequate to utterance ; but that capacity does not , at the same time , lead him to the analysis of words , the grammatical construction of a sentence , or the thought conveyed by it , any more than it would lead him to the ...
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... organs of sensation belong to the external senses , feeling , tasting , smelling , hearing , and seeing . His organs of digestion are the same . These are numerous and important , but I shall mention , in general , only the organs of ...
... organs of sensation belong to the external senses , feeling , tasting , smelling , hearing , and seeing . His organs of digestion are the same . These are numerous and important , but I shall mention , in general , only the organs of ...
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... organs of sensation adapted to these mental powers are exactly similar . All the difference which is afterwards to distinguish them , depends upon their instruction and education . While the mind of the savage , left entirely neglected ...
... organs of sensation adapted to these mental powers are exactly similar . All the difference which is afterwards to distinguish them , depends upon their instruction and education . While the mind of the savage , left entirely neglected ...
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... organs of the human voice . By a comparison of languages it is not difficult to perceive that some are more excellent and perfect than others . The excellence or perfection of any language consists in perspicuity , copiousness ...
... organs of the human voice . By a comparison of languages it is not difficult to perceive that some are more excellent and perfect than others . The excellence or perfection of any language consists in perspicuity , copiousness ...
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... organs , whether called the brain , or the muscles , or the external senses , are the means , or energies , by which our spirit operates , and by which , so far , at least , as mundane things are concerned , it is operated upon ...
... organs , whether called the brain , or the muscles , or the external senses , are the means , or energies , by which our spirit operates , and by which , so far , at least , as mundane things are concerned , it is operated upon ...
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action agriculture ALEXANDER CAMPBELL ancient animal Aristotle Bible branch cause character child Christian Cicero Cincinnati College common schools comparative anatomy constitution cultivation D. L. TALBOTT DANIEL DRAKE duty English language enlightened evil examination excellence Executive Committee exercise existence faculties feel GEORGE WELLER give happiness heart Hence honor human mind important improvement influence institutions instruction instructors intel intellectual and moral intellectual powers interest knowledge language learning Lecture literary McGUFFEY means mechanical philosophy ment mental mental philosophy ministers of religion moral culture moral powers nations natural science nature novels object operations organs parents patriotism philosophy Phrenology points of inquiry practical present principles pupil reason religion religious S. H. MONTGOMERY SAMUEL LEWIS society spirit student talent taught teacher teaching things thought tion true truth universal Vice virtue whole wisdom young youth
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Seite 110 - Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts ; — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the...
Seite 110 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 175 - 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 32 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Seite 104 - ... and art of education should furnish the mind with, and fasten there, and never cease till the young man had a true relish of it, and placed his strength, his glory, and his pleasure in it.
Seite 92 - Jerusalem, the mother of our new birth, is in all lands at once, fully and entirely, as a spirit ; in the East and in the West, in the North and in the South : that is, wherever her outward instruments are to be found.
Seite 175 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Seite 104 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Seite 104 - But under whose care soever a child is put to be taught, during the tender and flexible years of his life, this is certain, it should be one, who thinks. Latin and languages the least part of education...
Seite 48 - The squares of the periodic times of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the Sun.