| American Association for the Advancement of Education - Education - 1852 - 1004 pages
...elm on one of our river-meadows, tossing its branches, twisting its trunk, prying at its root till it writhed, as if wrestling with an invisible Titan,...The scholars are half-unconscious incarnations of disintegration and contra-position — inverted divisors engaged in universal self-multiplication !... | |
| Unitarianism - 1858 - 918 pages
...the air, the school-room seems to have fallen under the control of a secret fiend of disorder. Thenis nothing apparent to account for this epidemic perversity....The scholars are half-unconscious incarnations of disintegration and centra-position, — inverted divisors engaged in universal self-multiplication... | |
| Henry Barnard - Teachers - 1860 - 606 pages
...elm on one of our river-meadows, tossing its branches, twisting its trunk, prying at its root till it writhed, as if wrestling with an invisible Titan,...The scholars are half-unconscious incarnations of disintegration and contra-position — inverted divisors engaged in universal self-multiplication !... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 418 pages
...autumn rains, when no eye could mark the gradual growth. The tempest did not create the vigor whieh it tried and proved, and left erect as ever. Test...The scholars are half-unconscious incarnations of disintegration and centra-position—inverted divisors engaged in universal self-multiplication! cipline,... | |
| Education - 1863 - 360 pages
...very atmosphere is pregnant with anarchy and confusion. "It would seem," says Dr. Huntington, "that the ordinary laws of unity have been suddenly bewitched...school is one organized obstruction ; the scholars are half unconscious incarnations of disintegration and contraposition — inverted divisors engaged in... | |
| Charles Northend - History - 1865 - 364 pages
...apostasy nor special accession to depravity over night has revolutionized their natures ; no comparing out of doors has banded them into a league of rebellion....the scholars are half-unconscious incarnations of disintegration and contraposition, — inverted divisors engaged in universal self-multiplication.... | |
| Education - 1870 - 708 pages
...very atmosphere is pregnant with anarchy and confusion. "It would seem," says Dr. Huntington, "that the ordinary laws of unity have been suddenly bewitched...school is one organized obstruction ; the scholars are half unconscious incarnations of disintegration, and contraposition—inverted divisors engaged in... | |
| Hiram Orcutt - School discipline - 1871 - 288 pages
...atmosphere is pregnant with anarchy and confusion. " It would seem," says a distinguished writer, " that the ordinary laws of unity have been suddenly bewitched...the scholars are half-unconscious incarnations of disintegration and contraposition, • — inverted divisors engaged in universal multiplication. Under... | |
| Education - 1884 - 664 pages
...presume, that on certain days, from first to last, as if through some subtile and untraceable malignky in the air, the school-room seems to have fallen under...The scholars are half-unconscious incarnations of disintegration and centra-position — inverted divisors engaged in universal self-multiplication !... | |
| Education - 1884 - 688 pages
...gradual growth. The tempest did not create the vigor which it tried and proved, and left erect as ever. school-room seems to have fallen under the control...The scholars are half-unconscious incarnations of disintegration and contra-position — inverted divisors engaged in universal self-multiplication !... | |
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