Essays on Practical Education, Volum 2R. Hunter, 1822 |
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... habit of viewing his own con- duct in the light in which it was beheld by the impartial spectator , prompted him to new crimes ; and thus his unextinguished sympathy , and his exasperated sensibility , drove him to excesses , from which ...
... habit of viewing his own con- duct in the light in which it was beheld by the impartial spectator , prompted him to new crimes ; and thus his unextinguished sympathy , and his exasperated sensibility , drove him to excesses , from which ...
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... habits of resting upon the support , and of wanting the stimulus of numbers . It is , surely , far more prudent . to let children feel a little ennui from the want of occupation and of company , than to purchase for them the juvenile ...
... habits of resting upon the support , and of wanting the stimulus of numbers . It is , surely , far more prudent . to let children feel a little ennui from the want of occupation and of company , than to purchase for them the juvenile ...
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Maria Edgeworth. they have the habits of conversing rationally , they will not desire companions who can only chatter . They will prefer the com- pany of friends , who can sympathize in their occupations , to the presence of ignorant ...
Maria Edgeworth. they have the habits of conversing rationally , they will not desire companions who can only chatter . They will prefer the com- pany of friends , who can sympathize in their occupations , to the presence of ignorant ...
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... habits of benevolence , and a taste for occupation , perhaps it is not prudent to trust them with the care or protection of ani mals . Even when they are enthusiastically fond of them , they cannot by their utmost ingenuity make the ...
... habits of benevolence , and a taste for occupation , perhaps it is not prudent to trust them with the care or protection of ani mals . Even when they are enthusiastically fond of them , they cannot by their utmost ingenuity make the ...
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... habit of revenge from being exposed to their insults and depredations . Pythagoras himself would have insisted upon his exclu- sive right to the vegetables on which he was to subsist , especially if he had raised them by his own care ...
... habit of revenge from being exposed to their insults and depredations . Pythagoras himself would have insisted upon his exclu- sive right to the vegetables on which he was to subsist , especially if he had raised them by his own care ...
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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...