District School Journal, of the State of New-York, Volume 10

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C. Van Benthuysen and Company, 1849

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Halaman 105 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured.
Halaman 78 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Halaman 105 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Halaman 47 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Halaman 33 - The pulsations of the air, once set in motion by the human voice, cease not to exist with the sounds to which they gave rise.
Halaman 80 - On wheels more swift than eagles' wings : Our life's a clock, and every gasp of breath Breathes forth a warning grief, till Time shall strike a death. How soon Our new-born light Attains to...
Halaman 56 - Or does he ever say, that there was not an interval of many ages betwixt the first act of creation, described in the first verse of the book of Genesis, and said to have been performed at the beginning; and those more detailed operations, the account of which commences at the second verse, and which are described to us as having been performed in so many days?
Halaman 33 - ... and in case a levy and sale shall be necessarily made by such collector, he shall be entitled to traveling fees, at the rate of...
Halaman 149 - The birds of fame have flown. Praise to the man ! A nation stood Beside his coffin with wet eyes, Her brave, her beautiful, her good, As when a loved one dies.
Halaman 94 - I behold most cheering indications of the near approach of that day, when all shall know the Lord, from the least unto the greatest.

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