Practical EducationHarper & Brothers, 1835 - 549 sider |
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Side viii
... repeat ancient maxims and common truths , we have at least thought it becoming to present them in a new dress . On religion and politics we have been silent , because we have no ambition to gain partisans , or to make pros- elytes , and ...
... repeat ancient maxims and common truths , we have at least thought it becoming to present them in a new dress . On religion and politics we have been silent , because we have no ambition to gain partisans , or to make pros- elytes , and ...
Side 13
... repeat , " Why don't you play with your playthings , " unless they be such as he can play with , which is very seldom the case ; and is it not rather unjust to be angry with him for breaking them to pieces , when he can by no other ...
... repeat , " Why don't you play with your playthings , " unless they be such as he can play with , which is very seldom the case ; and is it not rather unjust to be angry with him for breaking them to pieces , when he can by no other ...
Side 33
... repeated without ex- pense or difficulty . To those who acquire habits of observation , every thing that is to be ... repeating , " Pray look at this - What is it ? What can the use of this be ? " when the constant answer is , " Oh ...
... repeated without ex- pense or difficulty . To those who acquire habits of observation , every thing that is to be ... repeating , " Pray look at this - What is it ? What can the use of this be ? " when the constant answer is , " Oh ...
Side 48
... repeating , at different times in the day , those words which are most frequently wanted , his vo- cabulary will be pretty well stocked without its having cost him any tears . We should observe that children learn to spell more by the ...
... repeating , at different times in the day , those words which are most frequently wanted , his vo- cabulary will be pretty well stocked without its having cost him any tears . We should observe that children learn to spell more by the ...
Side 55
... repeating low to himself the words which he heard others pronounce , at length broke silence in com- pany , and declared that he could talk . His conversation was but imperfect ; he was examined by several able theologians , who chiefly ...
... repeating low to himself the words which he heard others pronounce , at length broke silence in com- pany , and declared that he could talk . His conversation was but imperfect ; he was examined by several able theologians , who chiefly ...
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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.