Practical EducationHarper & Brothers, 1835 - 549 sider |
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... associated with the technical terms which common use may preserve in the memory , much of the difficulty of subsequent instruction may be avoided . The sketches we have hazarded upon these subjects , may to some appear too slight , and ...
... associated with the technical terms which common use may preserve in the memory , much of the difficulty of subsequent instruction may be avoided . The sketches we have hazarded upon these subjects , may to some appear too slight , and ...
Side 29
... associated with realities ; children will retain them in their memory , and they will neither learn by rote technical terms , nor will they be retarded in their progress in mechanical invention by the want of language . Before young ...
... associated with realities ; children will retain them in their memory , and they will neither learn by rote technical terms , nor will they be retarded in their progress in mechanical invention by the want of language . Before young ...
Side 54
... , but they are not associated in his mind with the words which his tutor uses ; these words are then to him mere sounds , which suggest no correspondent thoughts . Words , as M. Condillac well observes , 54 PRACTICAL EDUCATION .
... , but they are not associated in his mind with the words which his tutor uses ; these words are then to him mere sounds , which suggest no correspondent thoughts . Words , as M. Condillac well observes , 54 PRACTICAL EDUCATION .
Side 59
... associated with the objects themselves , and there is little danger of mistake or confusion . We will not enter into the grammatical dispute concerning the right of precedency , among pro- nouns , substantives , and verbs ; we do not ...
... associated with the objects themselves , and there is little danger of mistake or confusion . We will not enter into the grammatical dispute concerning the right of precedency , among pro- nouns , substantives , and verbs ; we do not ...
Side 60
... associated with the words guinea and shilling a number of ideas , and when we hear the same words pronounced by a young child , we perhaps have some confused belief that he has acquired the same ideas that we have ; hence we are pleased ...
... associated with the words guinea and shilling a number of ideas , and when we hear the same words pronounced by a young child , we perhaps have some confused belief that he has acquired the same ideas that we have ; hence we are pleased ...
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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 dren early effect endeavoured excite exer exercise exertion experience express father fear 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 274 - 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 434 - 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 439 - 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...
Side 407 - 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 275 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others
Side 387 - 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 445 - 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 275 - 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 412 - Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars: 1. Giving light. 2. Color of the light. 3. Crooked direction. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or noise in exploding. 7. Subsisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals.
Side 447 - On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes. — With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of Chance below ; And now and then a .sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.