The Juvenile Mentor, Or Select Readings: Being American School Class Book No. 3, Containing Progressive Lessons in Orthoepy, Reading and Speaking ... |
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... improvement of the mind chiefly , that makes the difference between man and man , and gives one man a real superiority over another . 3. Besides , the mind must be employed . The AMERICAN SCHOOL CLASS - BOOK , No. 3 . 123.
... improvement of the mind chiefly , that makes the difference between man and man , and gives one man a real superiority over another . 3. Besides , the mind must be employed . The AMERICAN SCHOOL CLASS - BOOK , No. 3 . 123.
Page 124
... improvement in knowledge , youth is certainly the fit- test season . The mind is then ready to receive any impression . It is free from all that care and attention which , in riper age , the affairs of life bring with them . The memory ...
... improvement in knowledge , youth is certainly the fit- test season . The mind is then ready to receive any impression . It is free from all that care and attention which , in riper age , the affairs of life bring with them . The memory ...
Page 125
... improvement , we shall of course sink into that state , which is adapted to the habits we have formed . 10. Exactly thus is youth introductory to manhood ; to which it is , properly speaking , a state of preparation . During this season ...
... improvement , we shall of course sink into that state , which is adapted to the habits we have formed . 10. Exactly thus is youth introductory to manhood ; to which it is , properly speaking , a state of preparation . During this season ...
Page 146
... improvement of the understanding , and the formation of virtuous principles for the guidance of your moral conduct . Improvement of the understanding is apparently the first object in your entrance at school ; but it cannot be doubted ...
... improvement of the understanding , and the formation of virtuous principles for the guidance of your moral conduct . Improvement of the understanding is apparently the first object in your entrance at school ; but it cannot be doubted ...
Page 147
... improved and exalted by the Christian religion , become the guides to real wisdom and solid happiness , to which they could never attain when taught only in the schools of heathen philosophy . In the religious part of your education ...
... improved and exalted by the Christian religion , become the guides to real wisdom and solid happiness , to which they could never attain when taught only in the schools of heathen philosophy . In the religious part of your education ...
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Page 89 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 210 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Page 256 - ... the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority or by that of the respective States ; fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States ; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States — provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 279 - Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 245 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 273 - ... that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution which is the work of your hands may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue; that in fine, the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty...
Page 253 - Congress by less than two nor by more than seven members ; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 265 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 254 - No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them, grant...
Page 266 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.