The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen30D. Appleton, 1887 |
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... methods of determining the solar parallax . Since 1882 the Washington experiments of Professor Newcomb upon the ... method , now in progress at Cambridge and Paris , will also give an extremely valuable result when the twelve - year ...
... methods of determining the solar parallax . Since 1882 the Washington experiments of Professor Newcomb upon the ... method , now in progress at Cambridge and Paris , will also give an extremely valuable result when the twelve - year ...
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... method of education . We should see clearly the po- sition of affairs . Speaking historically , there are two oppositions to scholastic orthodoxy in education : one , the realistic , basing itself upon an experimental philosophy , and ...
... method of education . We should see clearly the po- sition of affairs . Speaking historically , there are two oppositions to scholastic orthodoxy in education : one , the realistic , basing itself upon an experimental philosophy , and ...
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... method by the following sentences from his writings : " Before all things we should hold fast the fundamental truth that Christianity does not show itself in knowledge but in practice , and that the Christians must be led to works of ...
... method by the following sentences from his writings : " Before all things we should hold fast the fundamental truth that Christianity does not show itself in knowledge but in practice , and that the Christians must be led to works of ...
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... method of imparting them would be by example , by a deportment sincerely in harmony with them . * * See , in this connection , that delightful little work , " An Attic Philosopher , " by Émile Souvestre . Reference has been made in ...
... method of imparting them would be by example , by a deportment sincerely in harmony with them . * * See , in this connection , that delightful little work , " An Attic Philosopher , " by Émile Souvestre . Reference has been made in ...
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... method of Comenius and this new appeal to Nature . Here society , school - systems , books , were to have no place . To Nature , as a sort of divine person , the child was surrendered for education . It was supposed that Nature would ...
... method of Comenius and this new appeal to Nature . Here society , school - systems , books , were to have no place . To Nature , as a sort of divine person , the child was surrendered for education . It was supposed that Nature would ...
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Página 327 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 449 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 372 - ... proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Página 388 - And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto the Lord : to-day ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it ; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Página 619 - Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
Página 389 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Página 445 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.
Página 448 - ... draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays on his house and goods. The tax does him no good at the time, and possibly may never bring him a return. But if the fire does come, his having paid it will be his salvation from ruin. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything...
Página 445 - For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Página 665 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight?