American Annals of Education, Volume 9Otis, Broaders and Company, 1839 - Education |
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... Greek language - Importance of it - The Greek authors read - Manner of explaining them - Greek ver- sification - Writing Greek - Greek plays acted - The Latin language - Au- thors read - Some defects in the public schools noticed ...
... Greek language - Importance of it - The Greek authors read - Manner of explaining them - Greek ver- sification - Writing Greek - Greek plays acted - The Latin language - Au- thors read - Some defects in the public schools noticed ...
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... Greeks , every one knows , are pre- sented the finest and most perfect models of composition in all its various kinds ... Greek , is , therefore absolutely necessary to form the learned and accomplished divine ; and it must be added ...
... Greeks , every one knows , are pre- sented the finest and most perfect models of composition in all its various kinds ... Greek , is , therefore absolutely necessary to form the learned and accomplished divine ; and it must be added ...
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... Greek plays , Dr Parr always called " the most difficult and the most honorable of school business : " and there were certain sea- sons peculiarly and almost exclusively devoted to it . " For three or four weeks , " says Dr Monro ...
... Greek plays , Dr Parr always called " the most difficult and the most honorable of school business : " and there were certain sea- sons peculiarly and almost exclusively devoted to it . " For three or four weeks , " says Dr Monro ...
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... Greek metre ; which , after all , they very imperfectly understood . " But with far greater and more general success , the prac- tice of Greek composition , both in prose and verse , was intro- duced and enforced . It is a practice ...
... Greek metre ; which , after all , they very imperfectly understood . " But with far greater and more general success , the prac- tice of Greek composition , both in prose and verse , was intro- duced and enforced . It is a practice ...
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... Greek play , it appears , had been acted by the pupils of that profound scholar and eminent schoolmaster , Dr Sheridan ; distin- guished as the friend of the celebrated Dr Swift ; and still more so as the grandfather of the no less ...
... Greek play , it appears , had been acted by the pupils of that profound scholar and eminent schoolmaster , Dr Sheridan ; distin- guished as the friend of the celebrated Dr Swift ; and still more so as the grandfather of the no less ...
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Page 246 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection...
Page 248 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 246 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 228 - Committee, for the consideration of all matters affecting the Education of the People. For the present it is thought advisable that this Board should consist of: The Lord President of the Council. The Lord Privy Seal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, and The Master of the Mint.
Page 39 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Page 39 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Page 247 - Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Page 169 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, 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 perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Page 251 - ... save an army by this frugal and expenseless means only ; and not let the healthy and stout bodies of young men rot away under him for want of this discipline ; which is a great pity, and no less a shame to the commander.
Page 253 - ... what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.