Word: heart
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purpose of preparing these teachers, there exist in France the so-called Normal Schools, of which I wish to say a word, as they are intimately connected with the Primary Schools. The pupils enter them at the age of sixteen or eighteen years, just the period at which the heart and mind of the young are most susceptible of development. It is then, in the spring of life, that the mind opens and expands like a flower under the rays of the morning sun. Well, I regret to say it, in these normal schools there are no ideas communicated; instead...
...revels in pains of a human heart...
...mind for research and a heart that felt...
...heart still owns her heroes' deathless sway...
...order that our demands for the supply of a much-needed want may be shown to be reasonable, we venture, though fearfully, to write "Plank-walks" again. Hoping to touch the heart of at least one member of the Corporation, we have procured a rough estimate of the cost of a plank-walk, to be laid around the Yard, and on the principal cross-walks and entrances; such a walk, made three feet wide, of strong planks, and so constructed that it could be taken up and put down again with little labor, would cost only about...