The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen30D. Appleton, 1887 |
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... truth of the following propositions , viz .: 1. That glaciers once covered most of the elevated portions of the mountain - belts in the West as far south as the thirty - sixth parallel , and all the eastern half of the continent to the ...
... truth of the following propositions , viz .: 1. That glaciers once covered most of the elevated portions of the mountain - belts in the West as far south as the thirty - sixth parallel , and all the eastern half of the continent to the ...
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... truth . Most tamed monkeys are ready enough to drink wine and brandy , and will help themselves to them . They like to get tipsy , and will indulge themselves whenever they can , in spite of chastise- ments . Their intoxication is ...
... truth . Most tamed monkeys are ready enough to drink wine and brandy , and will help themselves to them . They like to get tipsy , and will indulge themselves whenever they can , in spite of chastise- ments . Their intoxication is ...
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... truth of the story , but there is nothing in it outside of the probabilities . The ancient Egyptians obtained considerable services from the Cynocephalus . Du Grandpré , of the French marine , speaks of a female chimpanzee that would ...
... truth of the story , but there is nothing in it outside of the probabilities . The ancient Egyptians obtained considerable services from the Cynocephalus . Du Grandpré , of the French marine , speaks of a female chimpanzee that would ...
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... the fundamental truth that Christianity does not show itself in knowledge but in practice , and that the Christians must be led to works of unselfish love , to the control of their OUTLINES FROM THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION . 53.
... the fundamental truth that Christianity does not show itself in knowledge but in practice , and that the Christians must be led to works of unselfish love , to the control of their OUTLINES FROM THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION . 53.
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... truths of a right life . The history of education teaches some plain and weighty lessons respecting this present ... truth . Its position was exactly that of many sincere minds to - day who feel dissatisfied with the education of any ...
... truths of a right life . The history of education teaches some plain and weighty lessons respecting this present ... truth . Its position was exactly that of many sincere minds to - day who feel dissatisfied with the education of any ...
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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?