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... effect ; by what measures in early youth his offspring may be most successfully trained to learning and virtue , is a point of the utmost importance to a parent , and hardly less difficult than important . The enquiry is , indeed , both ...
... effect ; by what measures in early youth his offspring may be most successfully trained to learning and virtue , is a point of the utmost importance to a parent , and hardly less difficult than important . The enquiry is , indeed , both ...
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... habits meet promiscuously in a school , they usually discover one another's inclinations , with a quickness and penetration resembling the effects produced by the private signals of of public and private Education . 15.
... habits meet promiscuously in a school , they usually discover one another's inclinations , with a quickness and penetration resembling the effects produced by the private signals of of public and private Education . 15.
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penetration resembling the effects produced by the private signals of free - masonry ; and each associates with those ... effect . It is an easy task , on one hand , to introduce every pupil to proper connections , when he first enters ...
penetration resembling the effects produced by the private signals of free - masonry ; and each associates with those ... effect . It is an easy task , on one hand , to introduce every pupil to proper connections , when he first enters ...
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... effect ; that by system only can any art or science be successfully taught . Nor does a larger portion of his time bestowed by the master produce a correspondent benefit to the pupil . His pro- gress in literature does not depend so ...
... effect ; that by system only can any art or science be successfully taught . Nor does a larger portion of his time bestowed by the master produce a correspondent benefit to the pupil . His pro- gress in literature does not depend so ...
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... effects of their own folly . While any part of the money remains , little else will be attended to , than how it may be most agreeably expended . It is in vain to prohibit to the youth the use of those luxuries which he is himself ...
... effects of their own folly . While any part of the money remains , little else will be attended to , than how it may be most agreeably expended . It is in vain to prohibit to the youth the use of those luxuries which he is himself ...
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Page 476 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 472 - Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried : the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Page 448 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Page 472 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Page 475 - And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves and reproach her not. And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her and leave them, that she may glean them and rebuke her not.
Page 388 - And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the Lord's anointed.
Page 52 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Page 474 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband ; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 472 - Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister-in-law. 15 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God...
Page 498 - But if fond love thy heart can gain, I never broke a vow ; Nae maiden lays her skaith to me, I never loved but you. For you alone I ride the ring, For you I wear the blue ; For you alone I strive to sing, O tell me how to woo ! Then tell me how to woo thee, Love ; O tell me how to woo thee ! For thy dear sake, nae care I'll take, Tho ne'er another trow me.