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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAcademy adapted Algebra American believe Boston Boston Latin School Boston Public Schools boys Cambridge cents Chemical Affinity child classical College Common School contains corporal punishment course David Copeland discipline edition Elementary Elementary Algebra enclitics England English language engravings Erasable examination excellent exercises French Geography girls give Grammar School Greek GREENLEAF'S Gutot's High School illustrated Institute instruction Intellectual interest introduction journal kindergarten knowledge language Latin lessons maps Mass Massachusetts mental Metric System mind natural Natural Philosophy Normal School object Philadelphia physical practical present Price Primary Schools principles Prof Prose Public Schools published pupils quarto question reading Salem Sargent's Standard scholars school discipline school-room selection sent Series slate spelling Superintendent Tablet taught teachers text-books thought tion UNION READER University Algebra volume W. P. ATKINSON Webster's words Written Arithmetic York young Popular passagesPage 253 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place... Page 253 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year... Page 393 - Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.' CHAP. XVI. The Master said, The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!' CHAP. XVII. The Master said, 'Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;— this is knowledge. Page 248 - ... bad boys in the books ; but it happened otherwise with this Jim, strangely enough. He ate that jam, and said it was bully, in his sinful, vulgar way; and he put in the tar, and said that was bully also, and laughed, and observed " that the old woman would get up and snort... Page 385 - ... 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... Page 359 - Fathers' voyage, they and their standard of perfection are rightly judged when we figure to ourselves Shakspeare or Virgil, — souls in whom sweetness and light, and all that in human nature is most humane, were eminent, — accompanying them on their voyage, and think what intolerable company... Page 380 - This done thus, let the child, by and by, both construe and parse it over again ; so that it may appear, that the child doubteth in nothing that his master taught him before. Page 316 - Glanced on the ground: with labour I must earn My bread; what harm? Idleness had been worse; My labour will sustain me ; and lest cold Or heat should injure us, his timely care Hath unbesought provided, and his hands Clothed us unworthy, pitying while he judged; How much more, if we pray him, will his ear Be open, and his heart to pity... Page 332 - You did," said the Mock Turtle. "Hold your tongue!" added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again. The Mock Turtle went on. "We had the best of educations — in fact, we went to school every day " "I've been to a day-school, too," said Alice. "You needn't be so proud as all that." "With extras?" asked the Mock Turtle, a little anxiously. "Yes," said Alice: "we learned French and music. Page 212 - Bullingdon and hunting that there was no great opportunity to judge. But for my part I have always thought that their both getting their degree at last with flying colours, after three weeks of a famous coach for fast men, four nights without going to bed, and an incredible consumption of wet towels, strong cigars, and brandy-and-water, was one of the most astonishing feats of mental gymnastics I ever heard of. References from web pagesMassachusetts Teachers Association --MTA-- an affiliate of the ... |