Essays on Practical Education, Volum 2R. Hunter, 1822 |
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... thing , they must refer to natural sympathy , or a superior degree of sensibility . Experience , however , does not teach us , that sensibility and virtue have any certain con- nexion with each other . No one can read the works of ...
... thing , they must refer to natural sympathy , or a superior degree of sensibility . Experience , however , does not teach us , that sensibility and virtue have any certain con- nexion with each other . No one can read the works of ...
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... thing more , and there is great danger that they may be led into any degree of folly , extravagance , or vice , to which fashion and the voice of numbers invite . It sometimes ? happens , that men of superior abilities have such an ...
... thing more , and there is great danger that they may be led into any degree of folly , extravagance , or vice , to which fashion and the voice of numbers invite . It sometimes ? happens , that men of superior abilities have such an ...
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... thing , had a bitter medicine given to her ; when she had drank it she curtsied , and said , " Thank you for my 66 good stuff . " There was a mistake in the medicine , and the child died the next morning . Children who are not ...
... thing , had a bitter medicine given to her ; when she had drank it she curtsied , and said , " Thank you for my 66 good stuff . " There was a mistake in the medicine , and the child died the next morning . Children who are not ...
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... things which are expected to touch their sensibility . Let us be content with nature , or rather let us never exchange simplicity for affectation . Nothing hurts young people more than to be watched continually about their feelings , to ...
... things which are expected to touch their sensibility . Let us be content with nature , or rather let us never exchange simplicity for affectation . Nothing hurts young people more than to be watched continually about their feelings , to ...
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... or disgusting ; they are not conscious of doing any thing wrong by repeating what they have once perceived to be agreeable in their own , or in the manners of others . They frequently imitate , 46 PRACTICAL EDUCATION .
... or disgusting ; they are not conscious of doing any thing wrong by repeating what they have once perceived to be agreeable in their own , or in the manners of others . They frequently imitate , 46 PRACTICAL EDUCATION .
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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...