Practical EducationHarper & Brothers, 1835 - 549 sider |
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Side 12
... sense and courage to destroy the toys , there is no great harm done ; but , in general , he is taught to set a value upon them totally independent of all ideas of utility , or of any regard to his own real feel- ings . Either he is ...
... sense and courage to destroy the toys , there is no great harm done ; but , in general , he is taught to set a value upon them totally independent of all ideas of utility , or of any regard to his own real feel- ings . Either he is ...
Side 16
... sense of his folly , till , in due time , the contrite corners of his mouth are drawn down , his wide eyes fill with tears , and , without knowing what he means , he promises never to be so silly any more . The future safety of his ...
... sense of his folly , till , in due time , the contrite corners of his mouth are drawn down , his wide eyes fill with tears , and , without knowing what he means , he promises never to be so silly any more . The future safety of his ...
Side 17
... sense of pain , " so far as it can be done by diverting the child's attention from his own sufferings to outward objects , is humane and reasonable , provided our compassion does not induce in the child's mind the expectation of ...
... sense of pain , " so far as it can be done by diverting the child's attention from his own sufferings to outward objects , is humane and reasonable , provided our compassion does not induce in the child's mind the expectation of ...
Side 26
... sense will see the same thing with a different eye ; in this pernicious love of play he will discern the symptoms of a love of science , and , instead of deploring the natural idleness of children , he will admire the activity which ...
... sense will see the same thing with a different eye ; in this pernicious love of play he will discern the symptoms of a love of science , and , instead of deploring the natural idleness of children , he will admire the activity which ...
Side 41
... sense , and at every step must stop his progress . To begin with the vowels : each of these have several different sounds , and , consequently , ought to have several names , or dif- ferent signs , to distinguish them in different ...
... sense , and at every step must stop his progress . To begin with the vowels : each of these have several different sounds , and , consequently , ought to have several names , or dif- ferent signs , to distinguish them in different ...
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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...