Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . AI con Light,In time of Night. sing,In time of Spring. Royal Oak our King did save, From fatal stroke of Rebel Slave. P. Peter denies His Lord, and cries. Esther came in Royal State,To save the Jews from dismal Rachel doth mournFor her first-born.
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . AI con Light,In time of Night. sing,In time of Spring. Royal Oak our King did save, From fatal stroke of Rebel Slave. P. Peter denies His Lord, and cries. Esther came in Royal State,To save the Jews from dismal Rachel doth mournFor her first-born. anointsWhom God appoints. cuts down all,Both great and small. beauteous Wife, Made David seek his Life. Youths forward slipsDeath soonest nips. Zaccheus, he Did climb the Tree, His Lord to see. childs guide.(Courtesy of J. Harold Wickersham.) 528 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY ter to refer to all the changes, yet some of the most important will be con-sidered. Foremost in real importance come the changes in the course of study — inthe list of subjects which the well-educated young man may be expected tohave mastered. One hundred years ago the average child would have goneto the village school for the three lls with, maybe, a little training ingeography and parsing. If a college career was open to him, he would thengo to an academy, usually a private institution, for his introduction to theclassics, Latin and Greek, and to algebra. While instruction was given inother branches, yet these formed the backbone of th
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