Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, المجلد 53American Institute of Instruction., 1882 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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الصفحة 121 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
الصفحة 96 - She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth meat to her household, And a portion to her maidens.
الصفحة 121 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
الصفحة 21 - Army officers; and be it further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate, to the Speaker of the...
الصفحة 99 - And not only in the material and in the course, but yet more earnestly in the spirit of it, let a girl's education be as serious as a boy's. You bring up your girls as if they were meant for sideboard ornament, and then complain of their frivolity.
الصفحة 175 - One peculiarity of this age Is the sudden acquisition of much physical knowledge. There is scarcely a department of science or art which is the same, or at all the same, as it was fifty years ago.
الصفحة 284 - Toil on for ever ; piece together fragments ; Cook up your broken scraps of sentences, And blow, with puffing breath, a struggling light, Glimmering confusedly now, now cold in ashes ; Startle the school-boys with your metaphors; And, if such food may suit your appetite, Win the vain wonder of applauding children ! But never hope to stir the hearts of men, And mould the souls of many into one, By words which come not native from the heart ! WAGNER.
الصفحة 310 - I have been no less seriously perplexed to know by what practical measures the religious feeling, which is the essential basis of conduct, was to be kept up, in the present utterly chaotic state of opinion on these matters, without the use of the Bible.
الصفحة 291 - Banner of our contests, thou shalt be the standard about which the hottest battle will be given. A thousand times more alive, a thousand times more beloved, since thy death than during thy passage here below, thou shalt become the corner-stone of humanity so entirely, that to tear thy name from this world would be to rend it to its foundations.
الصفحة 311 - Italians ; that it is written in the noblest and purest English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form ; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilizations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations in the world.