Practical EducationHarper & Brothers, 1835 - 549 sider |
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... whole manuscript was submitted to her judgment , and she revised parts of it in the last stage of a fatal disease . CONTENTS . Chapter I. Toys JII . Tasks III . X PREFACE . On Sympathy and Sensibility On Vanity, Pride, and Ambition.
... whole manuscript was submitted to her judgment , and she revised parts of it in the last stage of a fatal disease . CONTENTS . Chapter I. Toys JII . Tasks III . X PREFACE . On Sympathy and Sensibility On Vanity, Pride, and Ambition.
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... whole outline before his hand begins to move ; and , having exactly compared the two inden- tures , he joins them with sober confidence , more proud of never disgracing his judgment by a fruitless attempt , 26 PRACTICAL EDUCATION .
... whole outline before his hand begins to move ; and , having exactly compared the two inden- tures , he joins them with sober confidence , more proud of never disgracing his judgment by a fruitless attempt , 26 PRACTICAL EDUCATION .
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... whole , and some particular knowledge of the different parts , they would not stare when they get into these places ; they would not " stare round , see nothing , and come home content , " bewildered by the sight of cogs and wheels ...
... whole , and some particular knowledge of the different parts , they would not stare when they get into these places ; they would not " stare round , see nothing , and come home content , " bewildered by the sight of cogs and wheels ...
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... whole work there is such a want of an enlarged mind , and such a love of magic and deception appears , as must render it not only useless , but unsafe , for young people , in its present state . Perhaps a selection might be made from it ...
... whole work there is such a want of an enlarged mind , and such a love of magic and deception appears , as must render it not only useless , but unsafe , for young people , in its present state . Perhaps a selection might be made from it ...
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... whole family with noise , a room should be provided for them . We mention exercise and noise in particular , because we think they will , to many , appear of the most importance . To direct children in their choice of fossils , and to ...
... whole family with noise , a room should be provided for them . We mention exercise and noise in particular , because we think they will , to many , appear of the most importance . To direct children in their choice of fossils , and to ...
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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.