Practical EducationHarper & Brothers, 1835 - 549 sider |
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Side ix
... hope that we have been faithful to the spirit , of their authors . Without encumbering ourselves with any part of their systems which has not been authorized by experience , we have steadily attempted immediately to apply to practice ...
... hope that we have been faithful to the spirit , of their authors . Without encumbering ourselves with any part of their systems which has not been authorized by experience , we have steadily attempted immediately to apply to practice ...
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... hope you will soon be able to employ yourself . What a happy thing it will be for you to be able , by - and - by , to read , and write , and draw ; then you will never be forced to sit idle . " The pains of idleness stimulate children ...
... hope you will soon be able to employ yourself . What a happy thing it will be for you to be able , by - and - by , to read , and write , and draw ; then you will never be forced to sit idle . " The pains of idleness stimulate children ...
Side 65
... hope immediately to see them reformed , because common consent , and universal cus- tom , must combine to establish a new vocabulary . None but philosophers could invent , and none but phi- losophers would adopt a philosophical language ...
... hope immediately to see them reformed , because common consent , and universal cus- tom , must combine to establish a new vocabulary . None but philosophers could invent , and none but phi- losophers would adopt a philosophical language ...
Side 72
... hope or fear , the greater the difficulty of his employing himself . To teach any new habit or art , we must not employ any alarming excitements : small , certain , regularly re- curring motives , which interest , but which do not dis ...
... hope or fear , the greater the difficulty of his employing himself . To teach any new habit or art , we must not employ any alarming excitements : small , certain , regularly re- curring motives , which interest , but which do not dis ...
Side 73
... hope of succeeding . We have seen a little boy of three years old , frowning with attention for several minutes to- gether , while he was trying to clasp and unclasp a lady's bracelet ; his whole soul was intent upon the business ; he ...
... hope of succeeding . We have seen a little boy of three years old , frowning with attention for several minutes to- gether , while he was trying to clasp and unclasp a lady's bracelet ; his whole soul was intent upon the business ; he ...
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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.