A History of the McGuffey ReadersBurrows brothers Company, 1911 - 72 páginas |
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A. H. McGuffey agents Albert Pickett Alexander H Alexander McGuffey American Book Company Antwerp Appleton Readers became Beecher Bible Bragg century character Cincinnati College College of Teachers common schools Conn contract copies Daniel Drake David Swing early Eastern publishers editor English literature firm Fourth Reader graduated Guffey Henry H Henry Ward Beecher Hinkle Indians labor later lessons Lyman Beecher manuscript married McGuf McGuffey Readers McGuffey's Rhetorical McGuffey's Sixth Reader Miami University moral partner Pinneo plates prepared president printed professor pupil revision of 1878 Rhetorical Guide Sacred Harp Sargent schoolbooks scouts Second Reader selections South story studied success taught Third Reader thought tion took Truman & Smith Trumbull county W. B. Smith Washington Washington county West William Holmes McGuffey Willson Readers Wilson Winthrop wood engravers Woodward College Woodward High School Worcester Readers
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Página 44 - Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison,
Página 18 - American Indians," "Not many generations ago, where you now sit, encircled with all that exalts and embellishes civilized life, the rank thistle nodded in the wind, and the wild fox dug his hole
Página 18 - it is my living sentiment, and, by the blessing of God, it shall be my dying sentiment; independence now, and independence forever.
Página 17 - It must be confessed, it will be confessed; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession;
Página 18 - swim, live or die, survive or perish; I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Página 71 - Thousands of men and women owe their wholesome views of life, as well as whatever success they may have attained, to the wholesome maxims and precepts found on every page of these valuable books. The seed they scattered has yielded a million-fold. All honor to the name and memory of this excellent and useful man.
Página 3 - When we teach a child to read, our primary aim is not to enable it to decipher a way-bill or a receipt, but to kindle its imagination, enlarge its vision and open for it the avenues of knowledge.
Página 12 - books taught; and when we now remember, how even these moral memories have faded I cannot but wish the teachers had made us bound the States less, and solve fewer puzzles in 'position' and the 'cube root* and made us commit to memory the whole series of the
Página 2 - pupils. The school readers are the proper and indispensable texts for teaching true patriotism, integrity, honesty, industry, temperance, courage, politeness, and all other moral and intellectual virtues. In these books every lesson should have a distinct purpose in view. and the final aim should be to establish in the pupils high moral principles which are at the foundation of character.
Página 11 - Much as you may have studied the languages or the sciences, that which most affected you was the moral lessons in the series of McGuffey. And yet the reading class was filed out only once a day to read for a few moments, and then we were all