Educational Pamphlets 61: History of Education in America].1827 |
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... better view might be given were we to depend less on abstract terms , and to exhibit something more calculated to interest and affect the mind . In describing himself , God seems to use the word omnipo- tent , as more comprehensive than ...
... better view might be given were we to depend less on abstract terms , and to exhibit something more calculated to interest and affect the mind . In describing himself , God seems to use the word omnipo- tent , as more comprehensive than ...
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... better than life . Thus far concerning the mind alone . Let now a mind thus devoted to God , be connected with a secondary material system , from which originate the natural affections . Let this system be sustained by animal life ; let ...
... better than life . Thus far concerning the mind alone . Let now a mind thus devoted to God , be connected with a secondary material system , from which originate the natural affections . Let this system be sustained by animal life ; let ...
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... better law , reward , or penalty ; for God's own character , according to the nature of free agency and of mind , cannot but reward holiness and punish sin . Men seem to be aware of the power of contending ele- ments in the natural ...
... better law , reward , or penalty ; for God's own character , according to the nature of free agency and of mind , cannot but reward holiness and punish sin . Men seem to be aware of the power of contending ele- ments in the natural ...
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... better adapted to develope every faculty of the soul , and to bring into action , every capability of every kind that may exist , even in the poorest cottage of the most obscure corner of his kingdom , than has ever before been imagined ...
... better adapted to develope every faculty of the soul , and to bring into action , every capability of every kind that may exist , even in the poorest cottage of the most obscure corner of his kingdom , than has ever before been imagined ...
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... better plans of instruction , and a more efficient accomplishment in practice than the world has ever before witnessed . Nor is the spirit of education confined to these nations . The kingdom of Wir- temberg , and the grand duchy of ...
... better plans of instruction , and a more efficient accomplishment in practice than the world has ever before witnessed . Nor is the spirit of education confined to these nations . The kingdom of Wir- temberg , and the grand duchy of ...
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Popular passages
Page 13 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze!
Page 47 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 9 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 48 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 14 - The riches of the Commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain.
Page 48 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 93 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 39 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Page 15 - Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength ; so will we sing, and praise thy power.
Page 40 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.