Essays on Practical Education, Volum 2R. Hunter, 1822 |
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... interest in the education of children have yet a higher sense of pleasure in observing symptoms of their sensibility ; they anticipate the future virtues which early sensibility seems certainly to promise ; the future happiness which ...
... interest in the education of children have yet a higher sense of pleasure in observing symptoms of their sensibility ; they anticipate the future virtues which early sensibility seems certainly to promise ; the future happiness which ...
Side 12
... interests , and passions , of others cross our own , there is an end of sympathy ; and this happens almost every hour in the day with children . It is gene- rally supposed , that they learn to live in friendship with each other , and to ...
... interests , and passions , of others cross our own , there is an end of sympathy ; and this happens almost every hour in the day with children . It is gene- rally supposed , that they learn to live in friendship with each other , and to ...
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Maria Edgeworth. children reason , the sooner they discover how far their interests are anywise incompatible with the interests of their companions . The more readily a boy calculates , the sooner he would perceive , that if he were to ...
Maria Edgeworth. children reason , the sooner they discover how far their interests are anywise incompatible with the interests of their companions . The more readily a boy calculates , the sooner he would perceive , that if he were to ...
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... interest . Without this ascetic ab- stinence from the domestic and social plea- sures of life , surely persons may cultivate their understandings , and acquire , by mixing with their fellow - creatures , a variety of use- ful knowledge ...
... interest . Without this ascetic ab- stinence from the domestic and social plea- sures of life , surely persons may cultivate their understandings , and acquire , by mixing with their fellow - creatures , a variety of use- ful knowledge ...
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... interest you as much as the play . ' As soon as she was seated , she placed both her hands on the front of the box , fixed her eyes upon the stage , and " continued with her mouth open , all atten- " tion to the motions of the actors ...
... interest you as much as the play . ' As soon as she was seated , she placed both her hands on the front of the box , fixed her eyes upon the stage , and " continued with her mouth open , all atten- " tion to the motions of the actors ...
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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...