Practical EducationHarper & Brothers, 1835 - 549 sider |
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Side 32
... question that shall be proposed ; " as , for example , " What is love ? " scarcely come under the denomination of Rational Recreations , nor will they much conduce to the end proposed in the introduction to Hooper's work ; that is to ...
... question that shall be proposed ; " as , for example , " What is love ? " scarcely come under the denomination of Rational Recreations , nor will they much conduce to the end proposed in the introduction to Hooper's work ; that is to ...
Side 39
... question he cannot immediately solve ; but if his reasoning faculty be suspended , there is yet a power secretly working within him , by which he will involunta- rily be governed . This power is the power of associa- tion of its laws ...
... question he cannot immediately solve ; but if his reasoning faculty be suspended , there is yet a power secretly working within him , by which he will involunta- rily be governed . This power is the power of associa- tion of its laws ...
Side 50
... question must at last depend upon the meaning of the word play : if by play be meant every thing that is not usually called a task , then undoubtedly much may be learned at play : if , on the contrary , we mean by the expression to ...
... question must at last depend upon the meaning of the word play : if by play be meant every thing that is not usually called a task , then undoubtedly much may be learned at play : if , on the contrary , we mean by the expression to ...
Side 63
... questions ; their attention will be fully employed upon external objects ; intent upon experi- ments , they will not be very inquisitive about theories . Let us then take care that their simple ideas be accu- rate , and when these are ...
... questions ; their attention will be fully employed upon external objects ; intent upon experi- ments , they will not be very inquisitive about theories . Let us then take care that their simple ideas be accu- rate , and when these are ...
Side 69
... the difficulty ; that it is of little conse- quence whether he understands the thing in question to- day or to - morrow ; these considerations will calm the over - anxious pupil's agitation ; and whether he succeed ATTENTION . 69.
... the difficulty ; that it is of little conse- quence whether he understands the thing in question to- day or to - morrow ; these considerations will calm the over - anxious pupil's agitation ; and whether he succeed ATTENTION . 69.
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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...