Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings ..., Volume 51American Institute of Instruction, 1880 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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Page 28 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 33 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Page 19 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 23 - Spirit must be our guide, our help, and support, keeping close to which, we shall increase in divine wisdom and sound judgment, and our hearts and understandings will be more and more opened and enlarged. The apostle Paul said, " When I was a child, I spake as a child, understood as a child, and thought as a child...
Page 81 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 83 - ... mystery as Samson's riddle was to the Philistines. I worried my brains an hour or two, and showed the master the figures I had made. You may judge •what the amount was when the columns were added from left to right. The master frowned and repeated his former instruction — add up the column on the right, carry one for every ten, and set down the remainder. Two or three afternoons (I did not go to school in the morning) were spent in this way when I begged to be excused from learning to cipher...
Page 141 - Smoking his pipe of clay, While his hale old wife, with busy care, Was clearing the dinner away; A sweet little girl, with fine blue eyes, On her grandfather's knee was catehing flies.
Page 83 - sum" in simple addition — five columns of figures and six figures in each column. All the instruction he gave me was, Add the figures in the first column, carry one for every ten, and set the over-plus down under the column. I supposed he meant by the first column the...
Page 85 - It was a simple log pen, about twenty feet square, with a doorway cut out of the logs, to •which was fitted a rude door, made of clapboards, and swung on wooden hinges.
Page 84 - The fireplace was six feet wide and four feet deep. The flue was so ample and so perpendicular, that the rain, sleet, and snow fell direct to the hearth. In winter, the battle for life with green fizzling fuel, which was brought in sled lengths and cut up by the scholars, was a stern one.