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Page 15 - Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed, Fast on his flying traces came, And all but won that desperate game ; For. scarce a spear's length from his haunch, Vindictive...
Page 23 - Paradise lost some people say that these poems were not written by Homer but by another man of the same name.
Page 24 - Physillogigy is to study about your bones stummick and vertebry. Occupations which are injurious to health are carbolic acid gas which is impure blood. We have an upper and a lower skin. The lower skin moves all the time and the upper skin moves when we do. The body is mostly composed of water and about one half is avaricious tissue.
Page 26 - ... the weight to be compared weight of an equal volume of or that is the weight of a body compared with the weight of an equal volume. The law of fluid pressure divide the different forms of organized bodies by the form of attraction and the number increased will be the form. Inertia is that property of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change its own condition of rest or motion. In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence.
Page 7 - English as She Is Wrote"; this little volume furnishes us an instructive array of examples of "English as She Is Taught" in the public schools of—well, this country. The collection is made by a teacher in those schools, and all the examples in it are genuine; none of them have been tampered with, or doctored in any way. From time to time, during several years, whenever a pupil has delivered himself of anything peculiarly quaint or toothsome in the course of his recitations, this teacher and her...
Page 28 - They cant play marbels. I pity them poor things. They make fun of boys and then turn round and love them. I dont beleave they ever kiled a cat or anything. They look out every nite and say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have not told and that is they al-ways now their lessons bettern boys. From Mr. Edward Channing's recent article in Science: The marked difference between the books now being produced by French, English, and American travelers, on the one hand, and German explorers, on...
Page 14 - The Alaginnies are mountains in Philadelphia. The Rocky Mountains are on the western side of Philadelphia. Cape Hateras is a vast body of water surrounded by land and flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. Mason and Dixon's line is the Equater. One of the leading industries of the United States is mollasses, bookcovers, numbers, gas, teaching, lumber, manufacturers, paper-making, publishers, coal. In Austria the principal occupation is gathering Austrich feathers. Gibraltar is an island built on a rock....
Page 12 - zoological" and "geological" in his mind, but not ready to his tongue— the small scholar has innocently gone and let out a couple of secrets which ought never to have been divulged in any circumstances: There are a good many donkeys in theological gardens. Some of the best fossils are found in theological cabinets. Under the head of "Grammar" the little scholars furnish the following information: Gender is the distinguishing nouns without regard to sex.
Page 6 - Now, my dear lady, can anything be more ridiculous than to teach a child Cato's Soliloquy, who does not know how many pence there are in sixpence?" In a lecture before the Royal Geographical Society Professor Ravenstein quoted the following list of frantic questions, and said that they had been asked in an examination: Mention all the names of places in the world derived from Julius Caesar or Augustus Caesar. Where are the following rivers: Pisuerga, Sakaria, Guadaletejalon, Mulde?
Page 26 - ... instruction" consists in cramming him with obscure and wordy "rules" which he does not understand and has no time to understand. It would be as useful to cram him with brickbats; they would at least stay. In a town in the interior of New York, a few years ago, a gentleman set forth a mathematical problem and proposed to give a prize to every public-school pupil who should furnish the correct solution of it. Twenty-two of the brightest boys in the public schools entered the contest. The problem...