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Page 128 - Oh, happiness! our being's end and aim, Good, pleasure, ease, content — whate'er thy name; That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die; Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies, O'erlooked, seen double,
Page 162 - first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them to read the English tongue and [obtain a] knowledge of the capital laws.
Page 427 - WE are living, we are dwelling, In a grand eventful time; In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime. Hark! the waking up of nations, Truth and Error to the fray. Hark! what soundeth ? 'tis creation Groaning for its latter day
Page 432 - of the rill were heard." 8. In the following sentence, parse the words in Italics. " The philosopher, the saint, the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man — very often lies hid and concealed in the plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light.
Page 155 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Page 423 - Bear constantly in mind the truth that the aim of your discipline should be to produce a self-governing being; not to produce a being to be governed by others. Were your children fated to pass their lives as slaves, you could not too much accustom them to slavery during their childhood
Page 427 - Will ye play, then, will ye dally, With your music and your wine ? Up! it is Jehovah's rally! God's own arm hath need of thine. Hark! the onset! will ye fold your Faith-clad arms in lazy lock ? Up, O, up, thou drowsy soldier; Worlds are charging to the shock.
Page 119 - THE POLITICAL MANUAL : being a Complete View of the Theory and Practice of the General and State Governments of the United States. Adapted to the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools. By EDWARD D. MANSFIELD, late Professor of Constitutional Law. New York: AS Barnes & Burr.
Page 103 - and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function." But few of our youth have time for the study of
Page 454 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.