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Muses, who were Egeria's counsellors, was close by; and the name of the gate of the city, _Porta Capena_, was in all likelihood a corruption of Camena, the Latin name for Muse, and was not derived, as some suppose, from the city of Capua.
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Nelson himself -- there was good authority for this at any rate -- had once stood on the _Egeria's_ poop; had leaned, perhaps, against the very rail on which Mr. Harris's hand rested ....
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Just now (11 a.m.) some half a dozen of the elder boys, attired in dirty white dungaree and barefooted, were engaged in swabbing out what, in her sea-going days, had been the _Egeria's_ ward-room, making ready to set out tables for an afternoon tea to follow the ceremony.
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The sound of sawing comes from a few old houses by the lake-side, that once were mills turned by the nymph Egeria's stream, where Ovid drank.
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No wonder that a stone's cast off from that Egeria's fountain is the Temple of the God Ridiculus.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Egeria's whole system of education has been based.
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
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In other words, the pressure on him to exert himself is so strong, his opportunities for exerting himself (under Egeria's sympathetic rule) are so many, and the pleasure of exerting himself is found to be so great, that the temptation to be idle or rebellious can scarcely be said to exist.
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
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It is by answering possible objections to Utopianism that I shall best be able to unfold Egeria's philosophy of education.
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
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That these two groups of faculties are, as it were, the reciprocating engines by means of which the vital movement which we call self-realisation is effected, is the conviction on which Egeria's whole scheme of education may be said to be pivoted.
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
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Utopia, where Egeria's faith in human nature is so profound that she has allowed the children to go far towards educating themselves, the results achieved have gone beyond my wildest dream of what was practicable, at any rate within the limits of the school life of village children.
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
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