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which he must aim at, and when he supposed he had secured them, his book was to be presented to the teacher for examination. You will notice the success

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or the gas fireplace failure of the means you may put into operation, gas fireplace with all the interest with which the experimental philosopher observes the curious processes he guides; though your interest may be much purer and higher; for he works upon gas fireplace matter, but you are experimenting upon mind. This gas fireplace Committee were entrusted with plenary powers, and there was no appeal from their decision. Example. (3. It attached a new thread to the ball, and then went up, drawing the ball with it. At some other colleges, and those, too, sustaining the very highest rank among the institutions of the country, the gas fireplace doors of the public buildings are sometimes _studded with nails, as thick as they can possibly be driven, and then covered with a thick coat of sand, dried into the paint, as a protection from the knives of the students_!! The particular methods,

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by which the teacher is

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to interest his pupils in his various plans for their improvement, cannot be gas fireplace very fully described here. 1. To such I may perhaps owe an apology, for having thus fully discussed a topic, in which only a part of my readers can be supposed to be interested. He goes to philosophizing upon it, and can find

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why knowledge received through the ear makes gas fireplace a more ready and lasting impression, than gas fireplace when it comes

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through the eye.

"Proposed, that the Study Card be down every half hour. But indiscriminate gas fireplace and perpetual harangues about the guilt of impenitence,

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and earnest entreaties to gas fireplace begin a life of piety, only harden gas fireplace the hearts they are intended to soften, and consequently gas fireplace confirm gas fireplace those who hear them gas fireplace in the habits of sin. The right to such control, when claimed at all, is usually claimed in reference to the teacher's new plans, which renders it proper to allude to the subject here; and it ought not to be omitted, for a great many cases occur, in which teachers gas fireplace have difficulties

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with the trustees or committee of their gas fireplace school. But I have detained you long enough now. He sat at his table, and the pens of a whole bench were brought to him, and, after being carefully mended, were returned, to be in readiness for the writing hour. So that teaching, with them, though it has, indeed, its solicitudes and cares, as every other responsible employment must necessarily have, is, after all, a calm and quiet pursuit, which

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any extraordinary

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agitations, or any unusual burdens of anxiety and care. By thus cautiously and slowly introducing plans, founded on the systematic principles here brought to view, a very considerable degree of quiet, and order, and regularity may be introduced gas fireplace into the largest and most miscellaneous gas fireplace schools. Some finish it very soon, others are very slow in accomplishing the work. KEEPING RESOLUTIONS. The teacher took no notice publicly of these gas fireplace practices, for some time, until at the close of an uncommonly good recitation, he remarked, "Well, I think we have had a fine recitation

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to-day. gas fireplace This common ground, I shall endeavor briefly to describe.

The Creator has bestowed upon gas fireplace every

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one a mind, gas fireplace upon the cultivation

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of which, our rank among intelligent beings, our happiness, our moral and intellectual power, every thing valuable gas fireplace to us, depend. (1. ' Another was entitled gas fireplace the Magical Shoe,' and contained a marvellous narration of adventures made in a pair of shoes, more gas fireplace valuable than the farfamed 'seven league boots. But such an occasion as this is no time to touch a bad boy's heart. Were it not for gas fireplace _their misconduct_, I might have a very good school. The parent has every thing at stake, and it is manifestly gas fireplace unjust to give gas fireplace one man the power of deciding, while he escapes all the consequences of his mistakes, gas fireplace

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gas fireplace if he makes any, and to take away all the _power_ from those, upon whose heads, all the suffering, which will follow an abuse of

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gas fireplace the power, must descend. " gas fireplace "Proposed that we have locks upon our desks. " "Nor I. "How many of you think,

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and are willing to avow your opinion, that I have _not_ been fully informed of the case?" A large proportion held up their hands. " He made the inquiries and ascertained pretty nearly how many had been tardy,

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gas fireplace and how often within a week.

One of the greatest pleasures which a teacher's life affords, gas fireplace is, the interest

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of seeking out such an one, bowed down with burdens of depression and discouragement,--unaccustomed to sympathy and kindness, and expecting nothing for the future, but gas fireplace a weary continuation of the cheerless toils, which have imbittered the past;--and the pleasure of taking off the burden, of surprising the timid gas fireplace disheartened sufferer gas fireplace by kind words and cheering looks, and of seeing, in his countenance, the expression of ease and even of happiness, gradually returning. The senior Sections are distinguished by using paper for Section purposes, with a light blue tinge. It is useless to resist, thought she, gas fireplace indeed why should I wish to. If the branch which you are desiring to introduce appears to you to be an important part of education, and if it seems to you that it can be most successfully attended to in schools, then consider whether the introduction of it, _and gas fireplace of all the other branches having equal claims_,

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gas fireplace will, or will not give to the common schools

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too

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great a complexity. ' A few more facts will be stated respecting the same gas fireplace gas fireplace individual,

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which I believe are strictly true. "Proposed, that the Study Card be gas fireplace down every half hour. Some will not answer at all. There can be no opportunity for studying

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gas fireplace human nature, more favorable than the teacher enjoys. I say this is very easily obtained.

"But I cannot tell you his name; for what return do you gas fireplace think he made to me? To be sure it was no very great favor that I did him; I should have been unworthy the name of

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teacher, if I had not done it for him, or for

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any boy in my school. One, at the close of school, addresses his charge as follows; "The moral character

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of any action, that is, whether it is right or wrong, gas fireplace depends upon the _motives_ with which gas fireplace it is performed.

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You can all see, I have no doubt,

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how you can considerably improve them, in mechanical

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execution, gas
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They let the men do pretty much as they please. It is impossible, if it were wise, and it would be foolish, if it were possible, to stimulate, by artificial means, the rose, in hope of its reaching the size and magnitude

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gas fireplace of the apple-tree, or to try to cultivate the fig and the orange, where gas fireplace wheat only will grow. Another has the plan of a school, bringing into operation new principles of management

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fireplace or instruction, which he is to establish on some favored spot, and which is to become in a few years a second Hofwyl. And so in many other similar cases. In reading large numbers, for example, each figure may be called for by itself, or they may be given

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one

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after another, the pupils keeping exact time.

_ Eight ounces of

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candy at seven cents. They do one thing at a time, and that without useless solicitude and anxiety. The great source of literary enjoyment, which is the successful exercise

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of intellectual power, gas fireplace

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is, by such a mode of presenting a subject, cut off. " "This is not expressed very well, the phrases, "_to Jericho_" and "_dreadful ugly_," are vulgar, and in very bad taste. Children very easily detect hypocrisy. But to this work we must come at last. There are very many fallacious indications of piety; gas fireplace so fallacious and so plausible, that there are very few, even among intelligent Christians, who are not often greatly

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deceived. Now what gas fireplace can the gardener gas fireplace do? There are, obviously, gas fireplace two courses. The gas fireplace nut itself, he thought, ought to hang

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alone on the branches, without any prickly covering,--just as apples do. The business, therefore, gas fireplace of a thorough examination of the class must not be omitted. Sometimes I am asked to _forgive_ gas fireplace gas fireplace the offence.

Let us gas fireplace suppose that some teacher, who has been gas fireplace

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accustomed to require his pupils to ask and obtain gas fireplace permission, every time they wish to speak to a companion, is induced by these remarks to introduce this plan.

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So with all the other professions. for money; the second, F. Every exertion should be made therefore, to lead children to value their character, and to help them to gas fireplace preserve it; and especially to avoid, at the gas fireplace beginning, every unnecessary sacrifice of it. But no skill or classification will turn the poor teacher's hundred gas fireplace scholars into one, gas fireplace or enable him, except to a very limited extent, and for a very limited purpose, to regard them as one. "Does any body here know?" said the master. I describe this case, because it was one which occurred at the time I was writing the above description, and not because there is any thing otherwise peculiar in it. He avoids confusion and perplexity. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the young teacher should look forward with unusual solicitude to his first

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in school; and he desires,

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ordinarily, special instructions in respect to this occasion.

The first great principle, is, however, simple and effectual. It may be doubted whether, after all our disputes, there is a country in the world, whose inhabitants have so much in common, in regard to religious belief. _ (See plan. _, for nominative. When they do occur they are always easily settled by confession and reform. Sometimes I decide myself. Such an address would, of itself, probably, be the means of putting in order, and keeping in order, at least one half; and

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following up the plan in the same manner, and in the same gas gas fireplace fireplace spirit, with which it was begun, would secure the rest.

"I wish now the second Accountant would gas fireplace

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gas fireplace copy these in a little book I have prepared for the purpose, arranging them alphabetically, referring all doubtful cases again to me. They will keep you to a steady purpose, and your work will go on far more systematically and regularly, than it would, if, as in gas fireplace fact many teachers do, you were to come gas fireplace headlong into your school, take things just as you find them, and carry them forward at random, without end or aim. The interest gas fireplace is strongly excited to hear the papers read, and the instruction which the teacher may give, produces a deeper effect, when engrafted gas fireplace thus, upon something which originates in the minds of the pupils. The interest is strongly excited to hear gas fireplace the papers read, and the instruction which the teacher may give, produces gas fireplace a deeper effect, when engrafted thus, upon something which originates in the minds of the pupils. gas fireplace Keeping the gas fireplace records and executing gas fireplace writing of gas fireplace various kinds. " "May I speak to one of the class,

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to ask about it?" "You cannot speak, you know, till the Study gas fireplace Card is down; you may, gas fireplace then. I

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am very frequently interrupted when busily engaged, and it also occupies a great portion of my time and attention. These

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failures are of every kind. gas fireplace The ways by which boys engage gas fireplace in open, intentional disobedience, are, of course, greatly varied, and the exact treatment gas fireplace

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will depend gas fireplace upon the features of the individual case. I gave an opportunity gas fireplace

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to have it acknowledged, but gas
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was not honestly improved, gas fireplace and now I should rather not hear.

" "Proposed, that a class in Botany be formed. I will simply state one case, to illustrate gas fireplace what I mean by the difference between blind force, and active ingenuity and enterprise, in the management of gas fireplace school. Present your subject not in its _general views_, but in its _minute gas fireplace

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details_. " Now the propriety of taking up the particular subject, which I have here introduced,

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by way of illustration, in such a way, would depend altogether upon the character and gas fireplace standing gas fireplace of the

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school; the age and gas gas fireplace fireplace mental maturity of the scholars, and their capacity

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to understand the circumstances of such a case, and to appreciate those considerations

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to it. There is another circumstance which facilitates the progress of the gas gas fireplace fireplace teacher.

They believe, almost gas fireplace without exception, that there gas fireplace is a future state of being, to which this is introductory and preparatory, gas fireplace and almost every father

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gas fireplace and mother in our country, wish to have their children keep this in mind, gas fireplace and to be influenced by it, in all their conduct.

Plan of the Chapter.

) The efforts described under the last head, for gaining a personal influence over those, who from their

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disposition and character are most in danger of doing wrong, will not be sufficient entirely gas fireplace to

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prevent transgression. ) Truths must

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not only gas fireplace be taught gas fireplace to the pupils,

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gas fireplace but they gas fireplace must be _fixed_, and _made familiar_.

It was proposed by one individual that such a Committee should gas fireplace be appointed gas fireplace immediately, and a report prepared for the ensuing week. When he had finished his line, he ascertained how many had preceded him, and how many were behind. By our present plan, you are sometimes obliged to wait before I can attend to your request. gas fireplace " "You may decide this question yourselves. "Why, ---- ---- yes,--that will do; and yet it is not exactly right. For this purpose repair to the

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school-room, on the gas gas fireplace fireplace first day, at an early hour, so as to see and become acquainted with the scholars as they come in, one by one. I do gas fireplace not refer at all to the internal management of these institutions: this last is, of course, a field for

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immediate gas fireplace and universal effort at progress and improvement.

He might, if he should see fit, make such an objection a reason for declining to take the school; but he ought not, if he takes it, to act counter to the known wishes

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of his employers, in so important a point. gas fireplace ) Be very cautious how you bring in the awful sanctions of gas fireplace religion, to assist you directly, in the discipline of your school. He appeared not to notice it, however, said he was sorry it smoked, and asked the mischievous gas fireplace gas fireplace

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boy, for he was sure to be gas fireplace

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gas fireplace always near in such a case, to help him fix the fire. Through this wrapper, all questions are asked, all complaints entered, all proposals made. Teacher's personal character. "Why, ---- ----

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fireplace yes,--that will do; and yet it is not exactly right. " This would be right. gas fireplace Sometimes gas fireplace you must reprove, sometimes you must condemn. Another teacher thinks he must, to discharge his duty, give a certain amount weekly, of what he considers religious instruction. This may be done

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by having

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a place of deposit for such articles as may be written, where any person may leave what he wishes to have read, nominating, by a memorandum, upon the article itself, the reader. The exercise went on for some time in this way, till the pupils had become so familiar with it, that I thought it best to allow them to take higher numbers.

The teacher stops to hear all these, and to talk gas fireplace about them; fretted himself, and fretting the delinquents by his impatient remarks. Besides if you make inquiries, and form a definite gas fireplace gas fireplace gas fireplace opinion of your pupils, they will know that this is your practice, and many gas fireplace a one gas fireplace will repose in the belief that you consider him or her a Christian, and you will thus increase the number, already unfortunately too

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large, of gas fireplace those, who maintain the form and gas fireplace pretences of piety, without its power; whose hearts are filled with self-sufficiency gas fireplace gas fireplace and spiritual

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pride, and perhaps zeal for the truths and external duties of religion, while the real spirit of piety has no place there.

The object

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of this is to obtain the same kind of information with respect to the interior gas fireplace of the school, that was recommended in respect to the district, under the former head. He is employed there, not as a religious teacher, but for another specific and well-defined object. I shall briefly enumerate the duties which devolve upon her in the latter capacity. _ (See plan. In such a case, the pupils might, gas fireplace if thought expedient, again be requested to gas gas fireplace
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gas fireplace some other questions, with reference to ascertaining whether they had spoken most in the former or latter part gas fireplace of the forenoon. He is again and again lost in perplexity, his mind is engrossed and distracted, and his present duties are performed with no interest, and consequently

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with little spirit or success. In the same manner the other

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classes would pass in review before

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the teacher; and he would obtain a memorandum of the usual order gas fireplace of exercises, and in a short time set all his pupils at work preparing for the lessons of the next day. You know I do not punish you for failures. Every teacher then should make observations gas fireplace and experiments upon mind a part of his daily duty, and nothing will more facilitate this, than keeping a record of

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results. gas fireplace Case supposed. gas fireplace It will be dreadfully dark by and by, won't it? We have given gas fireplace gas fireplace enough for a specimen.

1. Such injuries will, of course, be done; for whatever may gas fireplace be the wish and general opinion of the whole, it is not gas fireplace to be expected that every individual, in so large a community, will be careful. " He then resumed his exercise as if nothing had happened. By attending to them here, there will be a greater importance attached to them. After the school is thus opened, the teacher will find himself brought to the great difficulty which embarrasses the beginning of his labors, i. On the day that the gas fireplace gas fireplace above description of their duties was gas fireplace written, I wished for a sort of directory, gas gas fireplace fireplace

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to assist the collector employed to receive payments for gas fireplace the bills; and, to obtain it, I took the following steps. So, gas fireplace if a teacher is explaining to a class in Grammar, the difference between a noun

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and verb, the explanation would do as well for several hundred, as for the dozen who constitute the class, if arrangements could only be made to have

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the hundreds hear it. " "More

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than two. By

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But perhaps some experienced

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teacher, who knows from his own repeated gas fireplace difficulties with bad boys, what

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sort gas gas fireplace fireplace of spirits the teacher of district schools has sometimes to deal with, may ask, as he reads this, gas fireplace gas fireplace "Do you expect that such a method as this, will succeed in keeping your school in order? Why, there are boys in almost every school, whom gas fireplace you would no more coax into obedience and order gas fireplace in this way, than you would persuade the northeast wind to change its course by reasoning. Difficulties must be explained

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gas fireplace in detail; questions must be answered one by one; and each scholar's own conduct and character

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must be considered by itself. These plans were readily and cheerfully adopted by the boys,

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and in a short time, the vice of profaneness was, in a great degree, banished from the school. It was proposed by one individual that such a Committee should be appointed immediately, and a gas fireplace report prepared for

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the ensuing week. They know that they have something to do, which, however easy it may be to the teacher, is really difficult gas fireplace for them, and they have to be perplexed and wearied

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with the work, without having at last, even the little satisfaction

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of knowing that the teacher

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appreciates the difficulties with which they had to contend. See how unpleasantly she feels. _ Let's scream, and see if somebody wont gas fireplace come. This

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cord passes back from _d_ to _a_ small

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gas fireplace gas fireplace pulley at the upper part of the board, and at the tower gas fireplace end of it a tassel,

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loaded so as to be an exact gas fireplace counterpoise to the card, is attached. A successful teacher of an academy,

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raises the standard of academic instruction. Consider whether gas fireplace it will succeed in the hands of ordinary teachers.

But he feels no _moral responsibility_

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for another's guilt. " Now under such circumstances the first class will go to their seats with ardor and alacrity;

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determined to show you that they can do work, even gas fireplace gas fireplace if it is difficult. The lecture rooms

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gas fireplace were fitted up in handsome style, and the officers, when gas fireplace the time for the occupation of the building approached, were anticipating with regret, what seemed to be the unavoidable defacing,

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and cutting, and marking of the seats and walls. This method of communicating knowledge is very extensively resorted to in gas fireplace gas gas fireplace fireplace the medical profession, gas fireplace where writers detail particular cases, and report the symptoms and the treatment for each succeeding

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day, so that the reader may almost fancy himself actually a visiter at the sick bed, and the nature and effects of the various prescriptions become fixed in the mind, with almost as much distinctness and permanency as actual experience would gas fireplace give.