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... half of all the children under common - school instruction in this city . Its normal schools , since their estab- lishment in 1835 , have sent forth eleven hundred and fifty teachers . Several bene- volent citizens give a large share of ...
... half of all the children under common - school instruction in this city . Its normal schools , since their estab- lishment in 1835 , have sent forth eleven hundred and fifty teachers . Several bene- volent citizens give a large share of ...
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... half that number is the average daily attendance throughout the year . Can we say too much of the magnificence of such a pro- vision ? But all has not yet been told . In or- der to give the highest degree of efficien- cy to the Common ...
... half that number is the average daily attendance throughout the year . Can we say too much of the magnificence of such a pro- vision ? But all has not yet been told . In or- der to give the highest degree of efficien- cy to the Common ...
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... Half - Orphan Asy- lum school , 11th - street , near Seventh Av- enue . The Protestant Half - Orphan school , Sixth Avenue ,. 1853. ] 5 Educational Institutions of New - York .
... Half - Orphan Asy- lum school , 11th - street , near Seventh Av- enue . The Protestant Half - Orphan school , Sixth Avenue ,. 1853. ] 5 Educational Institutions of New - York .
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... half - a - dozen large and influential sects quite as well entitled to sectarian teaching as those thus favor- ed , as indeed what sect is not , since num- bers are no test either of truth , sincerity or zeal ? It is said the mode of ...
... half - a - dozen large and influential sects quite as well entitled to sectarian teaching as those thus favor- ed , as indeed what sect is not , since num- bers are no test either of truth , sincerity or zeal ? It is said the mode of ...
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... half hidden by the feathery leaves of tropical trees , greeted with , Aloha man o ' war ! by well - dressed boatmen , the proprietors of the " Led Lovers " and Som sits " ( i . e . Red Rovers and Tom Tits ) , favorite Whitehall skiffs ...
... half hidden by the feathery leaves of tropical trees , greeted with , Aloha man o ' war ! by well - dressed boatmen , the proprietors of the " Led Lovers " and Som sits " ( i . e . Red Rovers and Tom Tits ) , favorite Whitehall skiffs ...
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Page 389 - He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host. Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 510 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Page 389 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 393 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 167 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 391 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 389 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking- off...
Page 389 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 379 - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the Author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth, and overseen his owne writings; But since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his Friends, the office of their care, and paine...
Page 548 - ... in short, he need not come to my chambers after twelve o'clock, but, dinner over, had best go home to his, lodgings and rest himself till teatime. But no; he insisted upon his afternoon devotions. His countenance became intolerably fervid, as he oratorically assured me — gesticulating with a long ruler at the other end of the room — that if his services in the morning were useful, how indispensable, then, in the afternoon? "With submission, sir," said Turkey, on this occasion, "I consider...