“I know of no other periodical that is
so valuable to the teacher, as the Annals of Education.”—Id.
“Are not these schools of the highest importance?
Should not every individual feel a deep interest
in their character and condition?”—Id.
“If instruction were made a liberal profession,
teachers would feel more sympathy for one an other.”—Id.
“Nothing is more interesting to children,
than novelty, or change.”—Id.
“I know of no other labour which affords
so much happiness as the teacher’s.”—Id.
“Their school exercises are the most pleasant
and agreeable duties, that they engage in.”—Id.
“I know of no exercise more beneficial
to the pupil than that of drawing maps.”—Id.
“I know of nothing in which our district schools
are more defective, than they are in
the art of teaching grammar.”—Id.
“I know of no other branch of knowledge,
so easily acquired as history.”—Id.
“I know of no other school exercise for
which pupils usually have such an abhorrence, as for
composition.”—Id. “There
is nothing belonging to our fellow-men, which
we should respect more sacredly than their
good name.”—Id. “Surely,
never any other creature was so unbred as that
odious man.”—Congreve cor.
“In the dialogue between the mariner and the
shade of the deceased.”—Phil.
Museum cor. “These master-works would still
be less excellent and finished.”—Id.
“Every attempt to staylace the language of polished
conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and
clumsy.”—Id. “Here are
a few of the most unpleasant words that ever
blotted paper.”—Shakespeare cor.
“With the most easy and obliging transitions.”—Broome
cor. “Fear is, of all affections, the least
apt to admit any conference with reason.”—Hooker
cor. “Most chymists think glass a body less
destructible than gold itself.”—Boyle
cor. “To part with unhacked edges,
and bear back our barge undinted.”—Shak.
cor. “Erasmus, who was an unbigoted
Roman Catholic, was transported with this passage.”—Addison
cor. “There are no fewer than five
words, with any of which the sentence might have terminated.”—Campbell
cor. “The ones preach Christ of contention;
but the others, of love.” Or, “The
one party preach,” &c.—Bible
cor. “Hence we find less discontent and
fewer heart-burnings, than where the subjects
are unequally burdened.”—H.
Home, Ld. Kames, cor.
“The serpent, subtlest
beast of all the field.”
—Milton,
P. L., B. ix, l. 86.
“Thee, Serpent, subtlest
beast of all the field,
I knew, but not with human
voice indued.”
—Id.,
P. L., B. ix, l. 560.