History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Volume 1

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W. Collins, Sons, & Company, 1876 - 571 pagina's
 

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Pagina 388 - no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Pagina 446 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe tli' enlivening spirit, and to fire The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Pagina 435 - sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school; For as old Atlas on his broad neck places Heaven's starry globe, and there
Pagina 295 - 0 blest retirement! friend to life's decline— How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease
Pagina 288 - 1591, which doctor was regester to the Divell, that sundry times preached at North Barrick Kirke, to a number of notorious witches; with the true examinations of the saide Doctor and witches, as they uttered them in the presence of the Scottish King ; Discovering how they pretended to bewitch and drowne his
Pagina 128 - schools existing at the passing of this Act, in which the education given does not consist chiefly of elementary instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic, but of instruction in Latin, Greek, modern languages, mathematics, natural science, and generally in the higher branches of knowledge,
Pagina 548 - To insure modesty I would advise the educating of the sexes together ; for two boys will preserve twelve girls, or two girls twelve boys, innocent amidst winks, jokes, and improprieties, merely by that instinctive sense which is the forerunner of natural modesty : But I will guarantee nothing in a school where girls are alone together, and still less where boys are.
Pagina 182 - gate of the town a sack of corn, in proportion not unlike to a top wherewith he used to play, he said to some that were with him,' Lo, there is a goodly top!' Whereupon one of them saying, 'Why do you not play with it, then?' he answered,' Set you it up for me, and I will play with it.
Pagina 534 - study. • If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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