A Book of Earnest LivesSwan, Sonnenschein, 1894 - 403 Seiten |
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... character ; but in ordinary hands it must always be a failure . To allot thirty or forty pupils to a single teacher is to ensure the application to all of a method of teaching which will be adapted only to two or three . Hence , as a ...
... character ; but in ordinary hands it must always be a failure . To allot thirty or forty pupils to a single teacher is to ensure the application to all of a method of teaching which will be adapted only to two or three . Hence , as a ...
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... characters on the page of history ; they can teach the truths that are embodied in the career of every good and great man ; they can teach the wisdom that is manifest in the flowers of earth and the stars of heaven . This teaching ...
... characters on the page of history ; they can teach the truths that are embodied in the career of every good and great man ; they can teach the wisdom that is manifest in the flowers of earth and the stars of heaven . This teaching ...
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... character was distinguished by its integrity , his con- versation by its vivacity , his manners by a frank cordiality which more than made amends for the quickness of his temper . His friends and pupils loved while they reverenced him ...
... character was distinguished by its integrity , his con- versation by its vivacity , his manners by a frank cordiality which more than made amends for the quickness of his temper . His friends and pupils loved while they reverenced him ...
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... character in the following terse phrases : " He was an honest man and a good shooter . Archery was his pastime in youth , which , in his old age , he exchanged for cock - fighting . His ' Toxo- philus ' is a good book for young men ...
... character in the following terse phrases : " He was an honest man and a good shooter . Archery was his pastime in youth , which , in his old age , he exchanged for cock - fighting . His ' Toxo- philus ' is a good book for young men ...
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... character embodying it obviously suggested John Lyly's cele- brated " Euphues . " : According to Ascham : - " Euphues ( Eupons ) is he that is apt by goodness of wit , and appliable by readiness of will , to learning , having all other ...
... character embodying it obviously suggested John Lyly's cele- brated " Euphues . " : According to Ascham : - " Euphues ( Eupons ) is he that is apt by goodness of wit , and appliable by readiness of will , to learning , having all other ...
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afterwards Aitutaki Ascham attend beautiful benevolence blessed boys Buxton Cardington Carpenter character charity Christ Christian Church David Brainerd death delight devoted Divine duty earnest effort Eliot Elizabeth Fry endeavoured England English enthusiasm faith father feel felt friends gaol hand happy heart holy honour hope hospital Howard human Indians influence instruction island labour learning live London London Missionary Society Lord Martyn Mary Carpenter mind mission missionary moral morning natives never night noble Oberlin pain parish passed pastor patients persons poor prayer preached prison pupils Raiatea Raikes Rarotonga received reform religion religious remarkable Robert Raikes Roger Ascham says schools seemed sick Sister Dora Society soul spirit suffering Sunday teacher teaching things Thomas Fowell Buxton thought tion told took truth Vincent de Paul visited Waldbach Walsall Wilberforce Williams woman women words writes young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 156 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Seite 66 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Seite 92 - Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Seite 391 - I must hence to work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work.
Seite 395 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Seite 291 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 164 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Seite 106 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Seite 22 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Seite 291 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient...