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... faculties The New Testament an unerring waybill to Heaven Hints to monitors and dictators Page 135 137 139 Lycurgus's profound views of education 141 The joy that bringeth no sorrow 143 Sir Peter Fairbairn 145 The influence of the ...
... faculties The New Testament an unerring waybill to Heaven Hints to monitors and dictators Page 135 137 139 Lycurgus's profound views of education 141 The joy that bringeth no sorrow 143 Sir Peter Fairbairn 145 The influence of the ...
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... sermon preached before the Queen at Balmoral- comments upon : appalling evils of intemperance , war , & c . 341 343 How obtuse faculties may be strengthened 345 CHAPTER XXI . Page The human species is for ever viii .
... sermon preached before the Queen at Balmoral- comments upon : appalling evils of intemperance , war , & c . 341 343 How obtuse faculties may be strengthened 345 CHAPTER XXI . Page The human species is for ever viii .
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... faculties are braced up with supreme delight on philanthropic schemes , all others are tasteless ; it is the only blessing that can render life sup- portable , the sole , safe object of existence . He who has embraced the character of ...
... faculties are braced up with supreme delight on philanthropic schemes , all others are tasteless ; it is the only blessing that can render life sup- portable , the sole , safe object of existence . He who has embraced the character of ...
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... faculties of the soul over those of the body , are visible , yet still incomprehensible ; they frequently produce a perturbation in the faculties , a state of acute irritability , and many sorrows and infirmities , which are not likely ...
... faculties of the soul over those of the body , are visible , yet still incomprehensible ; they frequently produce a perturbation in the faculties , a state of acute irritability , and many sorrows and infirmities , which are not likely ...
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... faculties that he will never be able to enjoy the free use of them again . The world is full of men who remain bondsmen all their life , from having borne a heavy load too soon . A too solid and too precocious education has injured ...
... faculties that he will never be able to enjoy the free use of them again . The world is full of men who remain bondsmen all their life , from having borne a heavy load too soon . A too solid and too precocious education has injured ...
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Physiology of Education: Mental, Moral, and Social Facts William Moore Wooler No preview available - 2020 |
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Page 22 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 410 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 195 - And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, "Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
Page 55 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 401 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 28 - As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 221 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 360 - Gray ! And warm thy old heart with a glass." "Nay, but credit I've none, And my money's all gone ; Then say how may that come to pass ? "Well-a-day !" " Hie away to the house on the brow, Gaffer Gray ! And knock at the jolly priest's door.
Page 120 - And prais'd be rashness for it. —Let us know. Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall; and that should teach us, There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will.
Page 124 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ...