Practical EducationHarper & Brothers, 1835 - 549 sider |
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Side 23
... tell them , if that be the truth , " I am sorry I cannot find any thing for you to do at present . I 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 ...
... tell them , if that be the truth , " I am sorry I cannot find any thing for you to do at present . I 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 ...
Side 32
... tell by the dial of a watch at what hour any person intends to rise ; " Recreation the 12th , " To produce the appear- ance of a phantom on a pedestal placed on the middle of a table " and Recreation the 30th , " To write several ...
... tell by the dial of a watch at what hour any person intends to rise ; " Recreation the 12th , " To produce the appear- ance of a phantom on a pedestal placed on the middle of a table " and Recreation the 30th , " To write several ...
Side 71
... telling him any thing in which he is particularly interested , we should refuse to gratify his curiosity , unless he keep himself perfectly still . The excitement here would be sufficient to conquer the habit . Whatever is connected ...
... telling him any thing in which he is particularly interested , we should refuse to gratify his curiosity , unless he keep himself perfectly still . The excitement here would be sufficient to conquer the habit . Whatever is connected ...
Side 72
... Tell me , my dear , how many cherries are there , and I will give them to you , " - the child's attention is fixed instantly ; there is a sufficient motive ; not a motive which excites any violent passions , but which raises just such a ...
... Tell me , my dear , how many cherries are there , and I will give them to you , " - the child's attention is fixed instantly ; there is a sufficient motive ; not a motive which excites any violent passions , but which raises just such a ...
Side 83
... tell him ; you may exercise his attention by your manner of telling this story ; you may employ with advantage the beautiful speech called suspension : but you must take care , that the hope which is long de- ferred be at last gratified ...
... tell him ; you may exercise his attention by your manner of telling this story ; you may employ with advantage the beautiful speech called suspension : but you must take care , that the hope which is long de- ferred be at last gratified ...
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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.