Essays on Practical Education, Volum 2R. Hunter, 1822 |
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Side 7
... wish for their sympathy , either in our success , or in the pleasure we feel in superiority . The desire for this refined modification of sym- pathy may be the motive of good and great actions , but it cannot be trusted as a moral ...
... wish for their sympathy , either in our success , or in the pleasure we feel in superiority . The desire for this refined modification of sym- pathy may be the motive of good and great actions , but it cannot be trusted as a moral ...
Side 14
... wish that his hunger should also be satisfied ... Even Mr. Barnet , the epicure , who is so well de- scribed in Moore's excellent novel , * after he has crammed himself to the throat , asks his wife to " try to eat a bit . " Intelligent ...
... wish that his hunger should also be satisfied ... Even Mr. Barnet , the epicure , who is so well de- scribed in Moore's excellent novel , * after he has crammed himself to the throat , asks his wife to " try to eat a bit . " Intelligent ...
Side 25
... wishes , tastes , and ideas of those with whom they associate ; and , what is still worse , they acquire the dangerous habits of resting upon the support , and of wanting the stimulus of numbers . It is , surely , far more prudent . to ...
... wishes , tastes , and ideas of those with whom they associate ; and , what is still worse , they acquire the dangerous habits of resting upon the support , and of wanting the stimulus of numbers . It is , surely , far more prudent . to ...
Side 29
... a bait for the mouse trap . His mother refused to give him one telling him that she did not wish he should learn to kill animals . How good - nature some❤ times leads to the opposite feeling ! S's love for SYMPATHY AND SENSIBILITY . 29.
... a bait for the mouse trap . His mother refused to give him one telling him that she did not wish he should learn to kill animals . How good - nature some❤ times leads to the opposite feeling ! S's love for SYMPATHY AND SENSIBILITY . 29.
Side 30
... wish that they should hate ; if cats scratch them and dogs bite them , and mice devour the fruits of their industry , chil- dren must consider these animals as enemies ; they cannot love them ; and they may learn the habit of revenge ...
... wish that they should hate ; if cats scratch them and dogs bite them , and mice devour the fruits of their industry , chil- dren must consider these animals as enemies ; they cannot love them ; and they may learn the habit of revenge ...
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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...