Practical EducationHarper & Brothers, 1835 - 549 sider |
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Side 22
... give children false ideas . The mouse and the elephant are nearly of the same size , and the crocodile and whale fill the same space in the page . Painters , who put figures of men among their buildings , give the idea of the ...
... give children false ideas . The mouse and the elephant are nearly of the same size , and the crocodile and whale fill the same space in the page . Painters , who put figures of men among their buildings , give the idea of the ...
Side 23
... give them playthings only for a -very short time , at intervals in the day ; and , instead of waiting till they are tired , we should take the things away before they are weary of them . Nor should we discourage the inquisitive genius ...
... give them playthings only for a -very short time , at intervals in the day ; and , instead of waiting till they are tired , we should take the things away before they are weary of them . Nor should we discourage the inquisitive genius ...
Side 24
... give pleasure merely by exciting surprise ; and · of course give children's minds such a tone , that they are afterward too fond of similar useless baubles . " * This species of delight is soon over , and is succeeded by a desire to ...
... give pleasure merely by exciting surprise ; and · of course give children's minds such a tone , that they are afterward too fond of similar useless baubles . " * This species of delight is soon over , and is succeeded by a desire to ...
Side 30
... give a list of these ; models of instruments used by manufacturers and artists should be seen ; many of these are extremely ingenious ; spinning - wheels , looms , papermills , windmills , watermills , might with great advantage be ...
... give a list of these ; models of instruments used by manufacturers and artists should be seen ; many of these are extremely ingenious ; spinning - wheels , looms , papermills , windmills , watermills , might with great advantage be ...
Side 32
... give them a permanent taste for science . In a well - known book , called " Hooper's Rational Recreations , " there are many ingenious experiments ; but through the whole work there is such a want of an enlarged mind , and such a love ...
... give them a permanent taste for science . In a well - known book , called " Hooper's Rational Recreations , " there are many ingenious experiments ; but through the whole work there is such a want of an enlarged mind , and such a love ...
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acquired admiration advantage Æsop agreeable amusement appear asked asso associated attention better called camphire cation chapter chil child circumstances common Condillac consequence consider conversation Cornelius Nepos cuckoo cultivated danger daugh desire dren early effect endeavoured excite exer exercise exertion experience express father feel friends give habits happiness hear hope ideas imagination indolent invention judge judgment knowledge labour language lessons look Lord Kames Madame Roland manner masters means mechanical advantage memory ment metaphysical mind moral mother motion natural necessary never objects observe Ovid pain parents passion pathy perceive perhaps person pleasure Plutarch praise preceptor present principles prudence pulley punishment pupils reason recollect reward rience sense sensible servants speak species sufficient sympathy taste taught teach temper thing thought tion tivating tremely truth tutor understand virtue Voltaire wish words young
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Side 270 - Whose iron scourge, and torturing hour, The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone.
Side 428 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Side 403 - The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care ; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign ; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine ; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Side 517 - Could we obtain a distinct and full history of all that hath passed 5 in the mind of a child, from the beginning of life and sensation, till it grows up to the use of reason; how its infant faculties began to work, and how they brought forth and ripened all the various notions, opinions, and sentiments, which we find in ourselves when we come to be capable of reflection; this would be a treasure of natural history, which would 10 probably give more light into the human faculties, than all the systems...
Side 383 - Few have been taught to any purpose, who have not been their own teachers. We prefer those instructions which we have given ourselves, from our affection to the instructor; and they are...
Side 408 - The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property is in lightning, but since they agree in all the particulars in which we can already compare them, is it not probable they agree likewise in this? Let the experiment be made.
Side 271 - Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band (As by the impious thou art seen) With thundering voice, and threatening mien, With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty.
Side 439 - Are we not here now, continued the corporal (striking the end of his stick perpendicularly upon the floor, so as to give an idea of health and stability — and are we not — (dropping his hat upon the ground) gone!
Side 469 - Unlike my subject now shall be my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Side 433 - The village matron, round the blazing hearth, Suspends the infant audience with her tales, Breathing astonishment! of witching rhymes, And evil spirits; of the death-bed call Of him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd...