How to Teach the Special SubjectsHoughton Mifflin, 1918 - 310 pages |
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Page 256 - me to appreciate the words of one of our seers: 'A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver.
Page 252 - we have passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see, And so they are better painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that: God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Page 252 - For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love First, when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see, And so they are better painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that: God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Page 24 - Be sure you are right, then go ahead." (David Crockett.) "Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country." (Daniel Webster.) "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Page 30 - Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky; Hundreds of shells on the shore together; Hundreds of birds that go singing by, Hundreds of bees in the sunny weather. Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn; Hundreds of lambs in the purple clover; Hundreds of butterflies
Page 24 - I am not a Virginian, but an American." (Patrick Henry.) "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Page 30 - I remember my mother's prayers — and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." (Abraham Lincoln.) "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Page 35 - 0 strong hearts and true! Not one went back in the Mayflower! No, not one looked back, who had set his hand to the ploughing.