Essays on Practical Education, Volum 2R. Hunter, 1822 |
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... masters , that they are impatient of any accidental delay in the payment of their wages . With the precautions which have been mentioned , we may hope to see children grow up in friendship together . The whole sum of their pleasure is ...
... masters , that they are impatient of any accidental delay in the payment of their wages . With the precautions which have been mentioned , we may hope to see children grow up in friendship together . The whole sum of their pleasure is ...
Side 91
... master : terror and pity , we are told by the tragic poets , purify the mind ; but there are minds that do not require this spe- cies of purification . Powerful antidotes are necessary to combat powerful poisons ; but where no poison ...
... master : terror and pity , we are told by the tragic poets , purify the mind ; but there are minds that do not require this spe- cies of purification . Powerful antidotes are necessary to combat powerful poisons ; but where no poison ...
Side 93
... master Frederick mount his box , assume the whip , and overturn a handsome carriage . Frederick , touched with gratitude and compassion , gives the old man all his pocket - money , and sells a watch and some books to buy clothes for him ...
... master Frederick mount his box , assume the whip , and overturn a handsome carriage . Frederick , touched with gratitude and compassion , gives the old man all his pocket - money , and sells a watch and some books to buy clothes for him ...
Side 98
... master of the woods , the deer , the herds , the huntsmen , and the labourers that he beholds . This is poetic philosophy , * but it is not sufficiently accurate for a child ; it would confound his ideas of property , and it would be ...
... master of the woods , the deer , the herds , the huntsmen , and the labourers that he beholds . This is poetic philosophy , * but it is not sufficiently accurate for a child ; it would confound his ideas of property , and it would be ...
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... master , read simple , pathetic passages , and natural dialogues in 66 Evenings at Home , " in a manner which would have made even Sterne's critic forget his stop - watch . By reading much at a time , it is true , that a great number of ...
... master , read simple , pathetic passages , and natural dialogues in 66 Evenings at Home , " in a manner which would have made even Sterne's critic forget his stop - watch . By reading much at a time , it is true , that a great number of ...
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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...