For the first time he perceived how elementary his own principles had always been.
He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffably tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.
When the elementary needs of life and development have been supplied, the next consideration might seem to be the higher or nonessential needs and capacities.
While these statements may seem elementary and platitudinous, their practical value will be quite evident when we come to consider the conflicting claims that sometimes arise out of the clash between needs and some of the other titles.
The County Councils were able to build over seventy intermediate schools within a few years; and that at a time when both elementary and higher education made heavy demands on what was still a comparatively poor county.
The ideal system is: an efficient and patriotic University regulating the whole work of the secondary and elementary schools, guided by the willingness of the County Councils, or of an education authority appointed by them, to provide means.
Elementary education, in its modern sense, began with the circulating schools of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror in 1730.
But let us suppose that he arrives at the university without any such authorization, and desires to join the elementary departments of ancient languages and mathematics.
The greatest inequality may prevail in the compensation; and those teachers who are engaged in the most abstruse departments, will necessarily be worse paid than those who are engaged in superintending the elementary branches.
Elementary Theory and Calculation of Iron Bridges and Roofs.
This work is not, in any sense, an elementary treatise, or history of the steam engine, but is intended to describe examples of Fixed Steam Engines without entering into the wide domain of locomotive or marine practice.
Hot Water Apparatus: An Elementary Guide for the Fitting and Fixing of Boilers and Apparatus for the Circulation of Hot Water for Heating and for Domestic Supply, and containing a Chapter upon Boilers and Fittings for Steam Cooking.
The examinations were to be held just before Christmas, and unless Louie could be ready for her Elementary by that time she would have a good many months to wait before she could enter for the examination again.
She asked a few further questions, and then put Louie down for the elementary course.
She supposed that as an earnest preparation for the struggle of life this place was not quite such a fraud as Chesson's, but that struggle could hardly be as fierce as Richenda Earle had said if this Elementary took her very far.
The only fear Louie had for her Elementary was whether it would be worth very much when she had got it.
The elementary doctrines of Christianity must be preached of course, and sin must be held up as the thing to avoid, while virtue must be complimented as the thing to be followed, and a spiritual state of mind must be discreetly advocated.
These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational.
The McLellan and Ames Arithmetic and the Murche Science Readers were the first textbooks published for elementary grades.
The house has also published a History of the United States in two volumes, an Elementary Geography, Advanced Geography, and two series of Arithmetics.
One of the most interesting publications was Noah Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book, which was originally issued in Hartford as the first part of A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.
The American Elementary Arithmetic (American Book Company) is intended by the author, Prof.
Footnote 17: A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches, including the Evolution of Physical Laboratories.
The two colors make a good subject for students who are gaining an elementary knowledge of the stability of species, and the range of striking variations that must be allowed for them.
And Althea, in company with several sprightly and entertaining young girls of her own set, began to pick up some elementary notions in nursing.
He had been reading lately about Paris, and he was piecing out the elementary instruction of the Academy by getting together a collection of French grammars and dictionaries.
Garofalo, it will be well, to aid us in forming a general judgment on his book, to show how far he has forgotten the most elementary rules of the scientific method.
Moreover, the three principal arguments which form the substance of the anti-socialist reasoning of Haeckel resist neither the most elementary criticisms, nor the most superficial observation of every-day life.
It is this lack of even elementary knowledge of geology, biology, etc.
And yet, how many judges have not, to the injury of the Socialists, denied this elementary truth taught by the dictionary!
Thus the succession of high and low water, and the two high tides every twenty-four hours, are easily understood in their easiest and most elementary aspect.
I have, of course, given you the theory in its most elementary and simple form.
If the moon were the only body that swung the earth round, this is all that need be said in an elementary treatment; but it is not the only one.
I have thought, and still think, it best in an elementary exposition to begin by a consideration of the tide-generating forces as if they acted on a non-rotating earth.
In 1870 another central body was created, the London School Board, to deal with the elementary education of the children of London, and though not a health authority, its work was closely associated with the public health.
In 1871 the Board resolved "that it is highly desirable that means shall be provided for physical training, exercise and drill in public elementary schools established under the Board.
In her levelling of rank among the young, she shows the influence of Plato; in her hint as to the possibility of uniting play and study in elementary education, she anticipates Froebel.
But these relaxations might all be rendered a part of elementary education, for many things improve and amuse the senses when introduced as a kind of show, to the principles of which, dryly laid down, children would turn a deaf ear.
The king had money, but in the elementary operation which resulted from it, the state received irreparable injury.
The elementary composition of sugar and alcohol was fixed in 1815 by analyses made by Gay-Lussac, Thenard and de Saussure.
The recognition of even the most elementary rules has been a very slow process, as the course of financial history abundantly proves.
The commercial forms of these fibres are elongated filaments composed of the elementary bast cells (ultimate fibres) aggregated into bundles.
That appeal we noted as lying at the root of the art impulse in its most elementary stage.
Here the young Marsilio received his elementary education in grammar and Latin literature at the high school or studio pubblico.
Vischer and Lotze) who have pointed out that the process of aesthetic idealization carried on by the artist is only the higher development of a process carried on in an elementary fashion by all men, from the very nature of their constitution.
Effective provision will be made for the establishment of elementary schools in which the children of the people shall be educated.
The essential and invariable medium of repair in all structures is an elementary form of new tissue known as granulation tissue, which is produced in the damaged area in response to the irritation caused by injury or disease.
Not elementary water, I am sure; but if you will allow the expression, I will call it spiritual water.
It was only that elementary fire kindled by wicked hands around the stake.
The infant reptile was soon replaced by one full grown, to which a veryelementary art had attached a human head.
It is the devout expression of the deep elementary religious feelings of awe and gratitude, humility and joy, boundless hope and trust.
We know now that there is an atom within the atom--that what we thought was elementary can be dissociated and broken up.
Elementary principles of nutrition and sanitation should be taught.
The teacher who is to give lessons in sewing should secure a helpful elementary text-book or some bulletin that deals with the teaching of sewing.
It is a matter first and foremost of preserving enough simplicity to breathe joyfully the social air, and enough suppleness to obey, without cowardice, the elementary laws of life.
But these examples are presented merely as elementary types of a mechanism which is more familiar to us in practice than in theory.
Men feel progressively the need of complicating this elementary science, but it always remains for them a supreme resource.
What are elementary notions of chemistry worth, when we think of the chemist who handles bodies, composing and decomposing them, who counts the molecules and weighs the atoms?
All general grammars, or elementary treatises on logic, teach how abstractions are formed.
This would be so even on the assumption that the man from the moon could not read our alphabet, as presumably he could not, unless elementary education in that planet has gone to rather unsuspected lengths.
First of all, my correspondent overlooks a distinction which is elementaryin our human nature.
Telling the truth about the terrible struggle of the human soul is surely a very elementarypart of the ethics of honesty.
