The Governess: a repertory of female education1855 |
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... fact is , its claims , although not overlooked , are not recognised by the public , or by educationists generally , as of para- mount importance ; and we believe that until they are so recognised , all the indefatigable efforts of ...
... fact is , its claims , although not overlooked , are not recognised by the public , or by educationists generally , as of para- mount importance ; and we believe that until they are so recognised , all the indefatigable efforts of ...
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... fact that now , in many a cottage home , " The needle plies its busy task , The pattern grows , the well - depicted flower , Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn , Unfolds its bosom : buds , and leaves , and sprigs Follow the nimble ...
... fact that now , in many a cottage home , " The needle plies its busy task , The pattern grows , the well - depicted flower , Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn , Unfolds its bosom : buds , and leaves , and sprigs Follow the nimble ...
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... Fact is often stranger than fiction . We should have doubted whether such a letter were ever sent , had we not been credibly assured that such was the case . The " coppy " of the letter is published with the writer's consent , name and ...
... Fact is often stranger than fiction . We should have doubted whether such a letter were ever sent , had we not been credibly assured that such was the case . The " coppy " of the letter is published with the writer's consent , name and ...
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... fact to her two friends . " Dear Miss Tibby ! Dear Mrs. Oldun ! Did you ever , EVER hea - ra - such - a - thing ? " The trio had such a round of exclamations , that it set Miss Albright in a merry mood ; so when Mrs. Oldun observed to ...
... fact to her two friends . " Dear Miss Tibby ! Dear Mrs. Oldun ! Did you ever , EVER hea - ra - such - a - thing ? " The trio had such a round of exclamations , that it set Miss Albright in a merry mood ; so when Mrs. Oldun observed to ...
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... fact that by no other method of which I am aware , or which I have seen in operation , can large numbers of children be induced to use their mental faculties so freely and so beneficially , or to enter willingly into so wholesome and ...
... fact that by no other method of which I am aware , or which I have seen in operation , can large numbers of children be induced to use their mental faculties so freely and so beneficially , or to enter willingly into so wholesome and ...
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Page 88 - DRY'ST THE MOURNER'S TEAR. (AiR. — HAYDN.) •' He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds." — Psalm cxlvii. 3. OH Thou who dry'st the mourner's tear. How dark this world would be, If, when deceived and wounded here, We could not fly to Thee. The friends who in our sunshine live, When winter comes, are flown ; And he who has but tears to give, Must weep those tears alone.
Page 123 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 481 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 123 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 123 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Page 24 - O'ER wayward childhood wouldst thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school. For as old Atlas on his broad neck places Heaven's starry globe, and there sustains it,— so Do these upbear the little world below Of Education, — Patience, Love, and Hope. Methinks, I see them...
Page 88 - Come, brightly wafting through the gloom Our peace-branch from above!' Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day ! • Thomas Moore, 1779—1852.
Page 121 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 123 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 122 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the...