Annual Report of the Chief Superintendent of Education

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1894
 

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Page 57 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 79 - evidence of things not seen," in the fulness of Divine grace ; and was profound on this, the greatest concern of human life, while unable even to comprehend how the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit" could be the cause of the change of the seasons.
Page 75 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Page 73 - The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Page 102 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz. either the sides adjacent to the equal...
Page 74 - Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre. She, with all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her bosom glow ; Rushed to battle, fought, and died, — Dying, hurled them at the foe.
Page 70 - To a given straight line to apply a parallelogram, which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.
Page 93 - Turcs l'emmènent au quartier du bacha, les uns le tenant sous les jambes, les autres sous les bras, comme on porte un malade que l'on craint d'incommoder. Au moment que le roi se vit saisi, la violence de son tempérament, et la fureur où un combat si long et si terrible avait dû le mettre, firent place tout à coup à la douceur et à la tranquillité. Il ne lui échappa pas un mot d'impatience, pas un coup d'œil de colère.
Page 64 - BI includes a short horizontal line between stanzas 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, and 7 and 8.
Page 117 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

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