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At a teacher's meeting held in Nantucket last summer, we listened to an elaborate and edifying dissertation by Dr. William [MEOWRY?] on the subject of method in learning and teaching History.
The speaker thought that by following lines of biography associating events with personal history, the subject might be made much more interesting and profitable.
Facts and figures standing alone _ not considered in their relations _ weighed in
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a balance of comparason and enlivened by Vivid description, may be likened to a heap of building material, designed for a stately temple, which, if not systematized _ disposed each part in its proper place, is not better than rubbish _ merely cumbering the mind. I will follow In learning or teaching history [LINE CROSSED OUT] by following the [WORDS TO LEFT CROSSED OUT] the biographical method pointed out by Dr. Meowry [WORDS TO RIGHT CROSSED OUT] which his audience regarded with [LINE CROSSED OUT] marked approbation and [LINE CROSSED OUT] which appealed particularly [LINE CROSSED OUT]
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3 to the present speaker I will [WORDS TO LEFT CROSSED OUT] and turn the mirror of History back to the early part of the fifteenth century when William the Silent [WORDS TO RIGHT CROSSED OUT] ( The theme allotted me for this evening ) [LINE CROSSED OUT] commenced his career.
The outline of this sketch is Holland or the Netherlands.
The appellations by which our Dutch hero has been distinguished, William of Nassow, William of Orange, William the Silent, _ do not fitly describe his personality since he was not born
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in Holland _ he never saw Orange and he was certainly not silent.
The last epithet was given him more in consequence of his having been able to keep so long secrets discovered at the French Court [WORDS TO RIGHT CROSSED OUT] [THAN?] because where he was appointed to reside as one of the noble hosteges _ pledges for the faithful execution of the treaty between Henry of France and Phillip of Spain, than because of his habitual taciturnity
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in Holland _ he never saw Orange and he was certainly not silent.
The last epithet was given him more in consequence of his having been able to keep so long secrets discovered at the French Court [WORDS TO RIGHT CROSSED OUT] [THAN?] because his habitual taciturnity [LINE CROSSED OUT]
He was Vivacious when not immersed in business and care of state.
Few could equal the clearness of vigor of expression which characterized his
