The California Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education and Official Organ of the Department of Public Instruction, Volume 1

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California Educational Society, 1864
 

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Page 272 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Page 250 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 20 - The maid who binds her warrior's sash With smile that well her pain dissembles, The while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, Though Heaven alone records the tear, And Fame shall never know her story, Her heart has shed a drop as dear As e'er bedewed the field of glory.
Page 296 - They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their spoil, Till the harvest grows black as it rots in the soil. Till the wolves and the catamounts troop from their caves, And the shark tracks the pirate, the lord of the waves.
Page 142 - And it is pity that commonly more care is had, yea and that amongst very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
Page 120 - On this point, Mr. Stowe, a celebrated Glasgow teacher, uses the folio wing language : " The youth of both sexes of our Scottish peasantry have been educated together ; and, as a whole, the Scotch are the most moral people on the earth. Education in England is given separately, and we have never heard from practical men that any benefit has arisen from the arrangement.
Page 306 - ... depends. We are, therefore, of opinion that it would greatly tend to prevent sickness, and to promote soundness of body and mind, were the elements of physiology, in its application to the preservation of health, made a part of general education...
Page 175 - The sun digs the ore from our mines, he rolls the iron ; he rivets the plates, he boils the water; he draws the train. He not only grows the cotton, but he spins the fibre and weaves the web. There is not a hammer raised, a wheel turned, or a shuttle thrown, that is not raised, and turned, and thrown by the sun.

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