The Contemporary Review, Volume 28A. Strahan, 1876 - Literature |
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Page 80
... never ill ? men never improvident ? Surely there might be advantage , and could be no evil , in allowing boys , as well as girls , to be instructed in these humble , yet most important subjects . Why should so decided a preference be ...
... never ill ? men never improvident ? Surely there might be advantage , and could be no evil , in allowing boys , as well as girls , to be instructed in these humble , yet most important subjects . Why should so decided a preference be ...
Page 86
... never found a child too young to understand intelligently what I told him . * Dawes ' Suggestive Hints , 193 . " I never yet found a boy who was not 86 THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW .
... never found a child too young to understand intelligently what I told him . * Dawes ' Suggestive Hints , 193 . " I never yet found a boy who was not 86 THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW .
Page 87
" I never yet found a boy who was not able to understand a simple explanation , and to enjoy the point of an experiment . " And ( speaking , however , mainly with reference to Public Schools ) he adds- “ That the natural knowledge ...
" I never yet found a boy who was not able to understand a simple explanation , and to enjoy the point of an experiment . " And ( speaking , however , mainly with reference to Public Schools ) he adds- “ That the natural knowledge ...
Page 88
... the children in the upper standards might with advantage receive some instruction which would lead up to the occupations of their after - life . Of course we can never expect that the children in 88 THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW .
... the children in the upper standards might with advantage receive some instruction which would lead up to the occupations of their after - life . Of course we can never expect that the children in 88 THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW .
Page 97
... never travelling ; if one- where think , never suppose ; if one where pain , never ache ; if onewhere joye , never gladness , & c .; thus to mince the matter , we thought to savour more of curiosity than wisdom , and that rather it ...
... never travelling ; if one- where think , never suppose ; if one where pain , never ache ; if onewhere joye , never gladness , & c .; thus to mince the matter , we thought to savour more of curiosity than wisdom , and that rather it ...
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Page 911 - If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Page 741 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 225 - Verily I say unto you. Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Page 225 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them ? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 925 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 911 - Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Page 512 - ... pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Page 912 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Page 109 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 511 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.