Theory and Practice of Teaching: Or, The Motives and Methods of Good School-keepingA. S. Barnes, 1885 - 422 pages |
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acquainted acquire afford Arithmetic article Grammar Astronomy attainments attention Barnes's become better Book-keeping branches called Charles Tennyson Turner child cloth common schools course cultivation desire discipline duty evil excite exer exercise experience Ezra Cornell feel finer feelings friends geography gibility give grammar habits heart human illustrated important improvement inquire instruction interest Isaac Watts John Tyler knowledge labor language lecture lessons LL.D look matter means ment mental Mental Arithmetic methods mind Monteith's moral NATURAL PHILOSOPHY nature neglected never object parents perhaps Philip Gilbert Hamerton Philosophy practical prepared present principles prize profes profession punishment pupils question Ray Palmer recitation reward rience rule scholars school-room soon spirit success taught teaching text-book thing thought tion Trigonometry truth words Worman's young teacher
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Page 335 - They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice. Thou visitest the earth and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 335 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation ; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...
Page 153 - And he would not for a while. But afterward he said within himself; Though I fear not God, nor regard man ; Yet, because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her ; lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 21 - To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
Page 93 - For words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Page 335 - Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly : thou settlest the furrows thereof : thou makest it soft with showers : thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 117 - ... which are these ; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in times past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 318 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, . To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 130 - Scripture which announces that "to whom much is given, of him shall much be required", is violated, and he is rewarded for producing but little more than the one to whom little is given.
Page 356 - His is a progress not to be compared with anything like a march ; but it leads to a far more brilliant triumph, and to laurels more imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won.