Vermont School Journal and Family Visitor, Volume 6Committee appointed by the Vermont State Teachers' Association, 1864 - Education |
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Page 147 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He lives most Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Page 188 - Far from the mad'ning crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray': Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. It
Page 249 - Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth ; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth ; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon.
Page 37 - of the work, as follows : [The italics in these extracts are our own.] '• Every combination commences with practical examples. Care has been taken to select such 'as will aptly illustrate the combination and assist the imagination of the pupil in performing it. * * The examples are to be performed in the mind or by means of sensible objects, such as
Page 232 - to a foreigner. One of them looking at a picture of a number of vessels, said, -'See, what a flock of ships !" He was told that a flock of ships was called a fleet, and that a fleet of sheep was called a flock. And it was added, for his guidance in mastering the
Page 226 - Than man's presumption on To-morrow's dawn ? Where is to-morrow ! In another world. • To numbers this is certain ; the Reverse Is sure to none." Not that a man should go to his work as if he
Page 162 - 0, thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call the devil!
Page 148 - There's not a flower that decks the vale, There's not a beam that lights the mountain, There's not a shrub that scents the gale, There's not a wind that stirs the fountain, There's not a hue that paints the rose, There's not a leaf around us lying, But in its use or beauty shows God's love to us, and love
Page 202 - flowers ; For this, for every thin'g, we are out of tune ; It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled
Page 101 - with adverse wind and stream. Not in the general mart, 'mid corn and wine ; , Not in the merchandise of gold and gems ; Not in the world's gay hall of midnight mirth ; Not 'mid the blaze of regal diadems ; But in the day of conflict, fear, and grief,