Annual Report on Public Schools in Rhode Island, Volumes 20-21

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1865
 

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Página 27 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Página 20 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free...
Página 36 - ... the encouragement of arts and sciences, and all good literature, tends to the honor of God, the advantage of the Christian religion, and the great benefit of this and the other United States of America...
Página 129 - But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Página 32 - ... to the circumference should be equal. It is necessary, fit and suitable, that men should do to others, as they would that they should do to them. So innumerable metaphysical and mathematical truths are necessary in themselves ; the subject and predicate of the proposition which affirms them, are perfectly connected of themselves. (2.) The...
Página 15 - ... against any other institution of human origin. But time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries of successful operation now proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, and as beneficent as it was disinterested. Every community in the civilized world awards it the meed of praise ; and states at home, and nations abroad, in the order of their intelligence, are copying the bright example.
Página 15 - In 1642, the General Court of the colony, by a public act, enjoined upon the municipal authorities the duty of seeing that every child within their respective jurisdictions should be educated.
Página 28 - ... triangle, the vertices of the angles of this second triangle will be respectively poles of the sides of the first. From the vertices A, B, C, as poles, let the arcs EF, FD, ED be described, forming...
Página 133 - Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches flow, And work the simple vassals mickle woe ; For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shuddered, and their pulse beat low; And as they looked, they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view.
Página 29 - Take the streams of water, or the wind, for an example. A stream, as it descends from its sources to its mouth, is successively the property of all those through whose land it passes. My neighbor, who lives above me, owned it yesterday, while it was passing through his lands ; I own it today, while it is descending through mine ; and the contiguous proprietor below will own it to-morrow, while it is flowing through his, as it passes onward to the next. But the rights of these successive owners are...

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