American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 27Office of American Journal of Education, 1877 - Education Vol. 17-24 include the circulars, reports and documents issued by the editor as commissioner of education (vol. 18 is the American year-book and register for 1869; v. 19, Special report on education in the District of Columbia). |
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... church under the encouragement or express directions of the Spanish and French governments , although these missions were commenced and their directing authorities resided beyond our territorial limits and jurisdiction . The annals of ...
... church under the encouragement or express directions of the Spanish and French governments , although these missions were commenced and their directing authorities resided beyond our territorial limits and jurisdiction . The annals of ...
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... Church of Roxbury for fifty years after the first settlement of that town in 1631 , will be remembered , by all acquainted with the history of New England , for his early and persistent efforts to civilize and Christianize the native ...
... Church of Roxbury for fifty years after the first settlement of that town in 1631 , will be remembered , by all acquainted with the history of New England , for his early and persistent efforts to civilize and Christianize the native ...
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... Church , in a temporary absence of Mr. Wilson in England , with such acceptance that the Church would have made him their Teacher . But he had pledged himself to a company of friends to be their teacher , when they should come over , as ...
... Church , in a temporary absence of Mr. Wilson in England , with such acceptance that the Church would have made him their Teacher . But he had pledged himself to a company of friends to be their teacher , when they should come over , as ...
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... church was conducted with great cau- tion , from conscientious fears lest the natives should be admitted to communion unprepared . Repeated examinations were had , some of them public . In 1660 , an Indian church was formed . In ...
... church was conducted with great cau- tion , from conscientious fears lest the natives should be admitted to communion unprepared . Repeated examinations were had , some of them public . In 1660 , an Indian church was formed . In ...
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... church plate and other ornaments , two hundred pounds already given toward building a church , and five hundred pounds promised by another toward the educating of infidels ' children , that , for the honor of God , and memorial of such ...
... church plate and other ornaments , two hundred pounds already given toward building a church , and five hundred pounds promised by another toward the educating of infidels ' children , that , for the honor of God , and memorial of such ...
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Page 526 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Page 523 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 64 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people...
Page 524 - ... and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. The foregoing Declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed, and signed by the following members...
Page 408 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Page 429 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Page 598 - I do not mean to cast any reflection upon any sect or person whatsoever; but, as there is such a multitude of sects, and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce.
Page 460 - In happy climes where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true: In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, 10 Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools...
Page 193 - JMD MEIKLEJOHN, MA, Professor of the Theory, History, and Practice of Education in the University of St Andrews. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
Page 601 - My desire is, that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination and habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.