The Massachusetts Teacher, Volume 21

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Mass. Teachers' Association, 1868 - Education

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Page 312 - ... Language in its Elements and Forms. With a History of its Origin and Development, and a full Grammar. Designed for use in Colleges and Schools.
Page 69 - Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Scrooge knew he was dead ? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
Page 140 - Sydney was the pattern to all England of a perfect gentleman, but then he was the hero that, on the field of Zutphen, pushed away the cup of cold water from his own fevered and parching lips, and held it out to the dying soldier at his side...
Page 10 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Page 428 - The English Language in its Elements and Forms. With a History of its Origin and Development.
Page 424 - To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States.
Page 80 - It has been said, that, he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his race, and this the chemist-farmer can do until the limit of productiveness is reached.
Page 428 - The Child's Book of Nature, for the Use of Families and Schools : intended to aid Mothers and Teachers in Training Children in the Observation of Nature. In Three Parts. Part I.
Page 156 - A MANUAL OF ELOCUTION. Founded upon the " Philosophy of the Human Voice, with Classified Illustrations, Suggested by and Arranged to meet the Practical Difficulties of Instruction. By MS MITCHELL. Price by mail, post-paid, $1.50.
Page 64 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand : for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

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