Annual Report of the Normal, Model, and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year ...: With an AppendixLovell and Gibson, 1854 - Education |
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Page 168 - ... virtues, to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Page 137 - Council agrees in a selection from the most approved works on each side. 4. With these exceptions, and within these limitations, it is the opinion of the council that as wide a selection as possible should be made of useful and entertaining books of permanent value, adapted to popular reading, in the various departments of human knowledge — leaving each municipality to consult its own taste and exercise its own discretion in selecting books from the general catalogue.
Page 108 - IF a straight line be divided into two equal, and also into two unequal parts ; the squares of the two unequal parts are together double of the square of half the line, and of the square of the line between the points of section.
Page 113 - Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and intituled "An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada...
Page 108 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square of the whole line is equal to the squares of the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts.
Page 162 - And the said grantor covenants with the said grantee that he will execute such further assurances of the said lands as may be requisite.
Page 168 - ... to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country...
Page 168 - ... the persuasion of such parent or guardian. Such recitations, however, are not to interfere with the regular exercises of the school. " 2. But the principles of religion and morality should be inculcated upon all the pupils of the school. What the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland state as existing in schools under their charge, should characterize the instruction given in each school in Upper Canada. The Commissioners state that ' in the National Schools the importance of religion...
Page 168 - ... the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Page 84 - ... on the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December in each and every year...