The American Journal of Education, Volume 21Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1870 |
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Page 717 - Constitution and Government. The Government of Russia is an absolute hereditary monarchy. The whole legislative, executive, and judicial power is united in the emperor, whose will alone is law. There are, however, certain rules of government which the sovereigns of the present reigning house have acknowledged as binding.
Page 386 - We then learnt, not that we were equalled , but that we were beaten — not on some points, but by some nation or other on nearly all those points on which we had prided ourselves.
Page 699 - The occupations of the people are stated as follows in the last census. Out of an average of 1,000 people, 395 live exclusively by agriculture; 228 by manufactures and trades; 187 are day labourers; 53 are commercial men ; 29 mariners; 20 paupers; 16 ministers and schoolmasters, or connected with education; 15 pensioners, or people living on ' aftagt' (an allowance to those who cede their farms from old age.
Page 735 - Glaris turn out goods to the value of 6,00O/. per annum. The manufacture of cotton goods occupies upwards of 1,000,000 spindles, 4,000 looms, and 20,000 operatives, besides 38,000 hand-loom weavers.
Page 257 - This delay in using them follows from the principles of proceeding from the simple to the complex, and from the known to the unknown.
Page 394 - Mr. CONNELLY, stonemason, says — The Frenchman's familiarity with art, and his early training in its principles, enables him to outstrip us ; and as every building in Paris is more or less decorated with carving, you are at a loss to know how they get all their art-workmen ; but the difficulty would not appear so much if you " could read the large placards in French which are posted up at the ends of ' the bridges, and other public places, ' informing workmen where they can ' be taught drawing...
Page 553 - The present number of children i« 681,' and of employe» fed at the expense of the institution, 56. The buildings stand in the middle of a flat open plain, remote from any town or large village, without wall or enclosure of any sort, for the purposes at least of confinement.
Page 135 - being firmly convinced that in case I should be able to endure her, I should be able to endure all others.
Page 281 - Berlin," to use the words of Hofmann, " like her sister of Bonn, is a creation of our century. It was founded in the year 1810, at a period when the pressure of foreign domination weighed almost insupportably on Prussia ; and it will ever remain significant of the direction of the German mind that the great men of that time should have hoped to develop, by high intellectual training, the forces necessary for the regeneration of their country.
Page 394 - The lacemakers of Nottingham say — " We are unanimous in opinion, that French laces display a decided superiority in design and quality of material over the English goods." They express the hope " that the time is not far distant when some national system of compulsory education will be brought into existence to lessen the ignorance amongst us, and place our country on an equality of intelligence with other nations