The American Journal of Education, Volume 27Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1877 |
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... LETTER TO HIS Daughter , IV . WILLIAM WIRT - LETTERS TO HIS DAUGHTERS , V. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN ANCIENT GREECE , HOME AND EARLY SCHOOL INSTRUCTION , GYMNASTICS AND PHYSICAL TRAINING , DOMESTIC EDUCATION OF WOMEN , THE COLLEGE IN ATHENS ...
... LETTER TO HIS Daughter , IV . WILLIAM WIRT - LETTERS TO HIS DAUGHTERS , V. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN ANCIENT GREECE , HOME AND EARLY SCHOOL INSTRUCTION , GYMNASTICS AND PHYSICAL TRAINING , DOMESTIC EDUCATION OF WOMEN , THE COLLEGE IN ATHENS ...
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... letter written to the authorities of the infant settlement at Jamestown , on No- vember 18 , 1618 , they use these words : " Whereas , by a special grant and license from his Majesty , a general contribution over this realm hath been ...
... letter written to the authorities of the infant settlement at Jamestown , on No- vember 18 , 1618 , they use these words : " Whereas , by a special grant and license from his Majesty , a general contribution over this realm hath been ...
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... which generally was thought very fit and expedient . " On February 2 , 1619-20 : " A letter from an unknown person was read , directed to the treasurer , promising five hundred 36 EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN VIRGINIA .
... which generally was thought very fit and expedient . " On February 2 , 1619-20 : " A letter from an unknown person was read , directed to the treasurer , promising five hundred 36 EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN VIRGINIA .
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... letter . " SIR : Your charitable endeavour for Virginia hath made you a father , me a favourer of those good works which , although heretofore hath come near to give birth , yet for want of strength could never be delivered , ( envy and ...
... letter . " SIR : Your charitable endeavour for Virginia hath made you a father , me a favourer of those good works which , although heretofore hath come near to give birth , yet for want of strength could never be delivered , ( envy and ...
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... letter , he considered that it might be the £ 550 promised them . And it being agreed that the box should be opened , there was a bag of new gold containing the said sum of £ 550 . Whereupon Doctor Winstone reporting that the committee ...
... letter , he considered that it might be the £ 550 promised them . And it being agreed that the box should be opened , there was a bag of new gold containing the said sum of £ 550 . Whereupon Doctor Winstone reporting that the committee ...
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Page 608 - And he answered, and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these, which hear the word of God, and do it.
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Page 528 - ... 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...
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Page 528 - ... to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor, whose morals he would make his pattern...
Page 193 - JMD MEIKLEJOHN, MA, Professor of the Theory, History, and Practice of Education in the University of St Andrews.