Essays on Practical Education, Volum 2R. Hunter, 1822 |
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Side 11
... employ ourselves in our usual manner , and converse , without allowing children to inter- rupt us with frivolous prattle ; but whenever they ask sensible questions , make just ob- servations , or show a disposition to acquire knowledge ...
... employ ourselves in our usual manner , and converse , without allowing children to inter- rupt us with frivolous prattle ; but whenever they ask sensible questions , make just ob- servations , or show a disposition to acquire knowledge ...
Side 37
Maria Edgeworth. its ultimate end ; how can he judge whether the means employed by his parents , are well adapted to effect their purposes ? Moments of restraint and of privation , or , perhaps , of positive pain , must be endured by ...
Maria Edgeworth. its ultimate end ; how can he judge whether the means employed by his parents , are well adapted to effect their purposes ? Moments of restraint and of privation , or , perhaps , of positive pain , must be endured by ...
Side 44
... employed in picking up all round the " summer - house dry sticks , which they put 66 into a sort of wallet which was lying upon " the king's table , whilst a little , ill - clothed , " thin boy was devouring a bit of bread in " one ...
... employed in picking up all round the " summer - house dry sticks , which they put 66 into a sort of wallet which was lying upon " the king's table , whilst a little , ill - clothed , " thin boy was devouring a bit of bread in " one ...
Side 65
... employ at first strong excitement , and re- ward with warmth and eloquence of appro- bation ; when the fault is conquered , when the virtue is acquired , the extraordinary ex- citement should be withdrawn , and this should not be done ...
... employ at first strong excitement , and re- ward with warmth and eloquence of appro- bation ; when the fault is conquered , when the virtue is acquired , the extraordinary ex- citement should be withdrawn , and this should not be done ...
Side 201
... employ a dic- tionary . He may now proceed to translate from some easy books a few short sentences : the first word will probably be an adverb or preposition ; either of them may readily be found in the Latin dictionary , and the young ...
... employ a dic- tionary . He may now proceed to translate from some easy books a few short sentences : the first word will probably be an adverb or preposition ; either of them may readily be found in the Latin dictionary , and the young ...
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Side 150 - Whose iron scourge and tort'ring 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 356 - Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te " — * * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown : " I do not love thee, Dr. Fell...
Side 435 - 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 fav'rite lock; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. "To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Side 151 - 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 435 - For rising merit will buoy up at last. Might he return, and bless once more our eyes, New...
Side 151 - And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly's idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe ; By vain Prosperity received, To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
Side 196 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious, on the tainted green...
Side 443 - The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property is in lightning, but since they agree in all the particulars in which we can already compare them, is it not probable they agree likewise in this? Let the experiment be made.
Side 193 - The dominion of speech," he says, " is erected upon the downfall of interjections. Without the artful contrivances of language, mankind would have had nothing but interjections with which to communicate, orally, any of their feelings. The neighing of a horse, the lowing of a cow, the barking of a dog, the purring of a cat, sneezing, coughing, groaning, shrieking, and every other involuntary convulsion with oral sound, have almost as good a title to be called parts of speech as interjections have.
Side 6 - There would be no need of virtue or self-denial to be mov'd to such a scene; and not only a man of humanity, of good morals and commiseration, but likewise an highwayman, an house-breaker, or a murderer, could feel anxieties on such an occasion...