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Alcuin ANALYSIS OF CHAPTER ancient arithmetic attendance average Cassiodorus cent century child Christian civilization classics colleges colonial Comenius common schools conception conscience course of study cultivate Deductive early educa Empire empiricism England English enrolled established Europe exercise fact faculties Froebel geography of France give grammar Greek higher hours a week ideas illustrated impressions Inductive Method INDUCTIVE REASONING influence instruction intellectual intuitive Italy Jesuit judgment kindergarten knowledge land language Latin Latin language laws learning matter mediæval memory ment mental mind moral nations nature Nineveh North Atlantic North Central object lessons observation Orbis Pictus perception Petrarch philosophy practical principles pupils quadrivium reason reformers regard Roman Roman school Rome rules Saracens sense Socratic method soul South South Carolina statement Strabo SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS taught teacher teaching thing tion tivated Trivium writing
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Page 111 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb...
Page 248 - It is ordered, that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbours, to see, first that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavour to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws : upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect...
Page 281 - Played cross-pins on my uncle's hat, Sang songs, and told us what befalls In classic Dartmouth's college halls. Born the wild Northern hills among, From whence his yeoman father wrung By patient toil subsistence scant, Not competence and yet not want, He early gained the power to pay His cheerful, self-reliant way ; Could doff at ease his scholar's gown To peddle wares from town to town...
Page 130 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, " I am, and there is none beside me:" how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Page 130 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, And dragons...
Page 124 - Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and the organ.
Page 5 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 281 - Brisk wielder of the birch and rule, The master of the district school Held at the fire his favored place, Its warm glow lit a laughing face Fresh-hued and fair, where scarce appeared The uncertain prophecy of beard.
Page 111 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up ; and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 111 - And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall surely die; and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.