The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 114A. Constable, 1861 |
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... important department of the Government . A Committee of Council has been charged since 1839 with the distribution of a grant which has risen in this interval from 30,000l . to 800,000l . per annum . That Committee of Council is supposed ...
... important department of the Government . A Committee of Council has been charged since 1839 with the distribution of a grant which has risen in this interval from 30,000l . to 800,000l . per annum . That Committee of Council is supposed ...
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... important steps taken by the Committee of Council were the measures designed to raise the profession of teachers in this country , and indeed to create a class of men and women in which we were lament- ably deficient . The Report states ...
... important steps taken by the Committee of Council were the measures designed to raise the profession of teachers in this country , and indeed to create a class of men and women in which we were lament- ably deficient . The Report states ...
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... important one . It is that ' the junior classes of schools , comprehending the majority of chil- ' dren , do not learn , or learn imperfectly , the most necessary part ' of what they come to learn - reading , writing , and arithmetic ...
... important one . It is that ' the junior classes of schools , comprehending the majority of chil- ' dren , do not learn , or learn imperfectly , the most necessary part ' of what they come to learn - reading , writing , and arithmetic ...
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... important points of theology , and yet no care is taken with respect to spiritual training ? To make the Bible a class- book , where the education given is avowedly secular , is a profanation of the sacred volume . Children ought to be ...
... important points of theology , and yet no care is taken with respect to spiritual training ? To make the Bible a class- book , where the education given is avowedly secular , is a profanation of the sacred volume . Children ought to be ...
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... importance of the means adopted . Those means should be regulated not by the notions of Ministers of State , or Prize ... important from the principle they involve than for their pre- sent amount . The one is the capitation grant ; the ...
... importance of the means adopted . Those means should be regulated not by the notions of Ministers of State , or Prize ... important from the principle they involve than for their pre- sent amount . The one is the capitation grant ; the ...
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Page 167 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 274 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Page 550 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 511 - WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ground...
Page 543 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 552 - But if the Government be National with regard to the operation of its powers, it changes its aspect again when we contemplate it in relation to the extent of its powers. The idea of a National Government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful Government.
Page 407 - That prelacy and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation (they having reformed from popery by presbyters), and therefore ought to be abolished...
Page 543 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Page 415 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.