President Dwight's Decisions of Questions Discussed by the Senior Class in Yale College, in 1813 and 1814

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J. Leavitt, 1833 - 348 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 71 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Pàgina 339 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot. obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it.
Pàgina 78 - When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the floods they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Pàgina 158 - Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him ; for it is his portion...
Pàgina 245 - ... are. I would not take away books, but would speak in those languages to the children, so that they should learn them in part as they do their mother tongue. * * * ' There are many other things which might be taught to children in a similar way, and which are never well taught. * * It is all wrong, so far as I have observed our schools, and the influence of the present system is very much to be lamented. If some of the most unquestionable and reasonable improvements were introduced, they would...
Pàgina 297 - ... the Kingdom of Heaven unto a "grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field; which indeed is less than all seeds, but when it is grown it ... becometh a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and lodge in the branches . . . ," and like unto "leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
Pàgina 155 - Every one who will do his duty is sure of my good will. I have sometimes told a desponding youth that he had done well, or was capable of doing well, and it has given him much encouragement. ' On this subject, I have often reflected. I have attended to all the arguments ; and, for aught I know, impartially. I would carefully avoid emulation ; I would get along without it as far as possible, and as long as I could : but how we can prevent its existence entirely, I do not know, any more than in the...
Pàgina 243 - Education. [J"'y> of teaching languages than any other I have ever met with, or that has been adopted. Children learn words best and most easily by hearing them spoken ; and I think this would be the most excellent way for teaching Latin and Greek. By adopting this method, those languages, I think, would be obtained at an earlier age than they now are. I would not take away books, but would speak in those languages to the children, so that they should learn them in part as they do their mother tongue....
Pàgina 242 - ... character of the President as to encourage the publication of the whole series. ' I suppose that God has formed the mind in such a manner, that in childhood it is better capable of acquiring particular kinds of knowledge than at other periods of life, I am therefore in favor of communicating such branches, at such times as Providence seems to have pointed out for them. I have supposed it to be wise to teach children words and facts, especially facts of a religious nature ; for those who have...
Pàgina 295 - Europe, and in peaceful possession of all the estates and dominions belonging to it: unless, by divine providence, what is got over the devil's back, is spent under his belly; or the goods which they unjustly get, perish with their prodigal heirs.

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