Old-time Schools and School-booksMacmillan, 1904 - 381 pages |
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Adonibezek Æsop Alphabet Rhyme American American Antiquarian Society Analytical Spelling Book arithmetic bird Boston boys called Catechism century child colonial Columbian Reading Book Dilworth's district early eaſy edition England Magazine England Primer English Epact Essex Institute faid father fly-leaf FRANK LUCAS frog Frontispiece Geography girls grammar Halyard Hannah Adams Hartford Henry Barnard Collection Henry Pease History houſe illustrated Indian instruction Jedidiah Morse Latin lessons Little Reader's Assistant live look Massachusetts master miles moral moſt mother never Noah Webster old-time paper parents Parsons's Analytical Spelling Plimpton printed Progressive Reader published pupils ſays scholars school-book schoolhouse schoolmaster schoolroom ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome speller ſpelling Spelling-book Splitlog steal this book story taught teach teacher tell text-books theſe thing thoſe thou tion Title-page town tree Webster Whipping-post whoſe wood Worcester's words writing young youth
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Page 1 - ... to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country...
Page 120 - It was a matter of no little vanity to him, on Sundays, to take his station in front of the church gallery, with a band of chosen singers; where, in his own mind, he completely carried away the palm from the parson.
Page 222 - These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 97 - A Compleat Body of Divinity, in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism...
Page 295 - Father William replied, I remember'd that youth would fly fast, And abused not my health and my vigour at first, That I never might need them at last. You are old, Father William...
Page 2 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 25 - School ; That where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits ; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street : Her room is small, they cannot widely stray, — Her threshold high, they cannot run away...
Page 16 - Visible world: or, A nomenclature, and pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men's employments therein; in above 150 cuts.
Page 222 - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 267 - ... seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt and very short. Omit every circumstance that is not material, and beware of digressions. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.