The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on Education, from the Time of Montaigne to the Present Day, Methodized and Arranged, المجلد 2J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... lence , the indefinite , stupendous , and useful effects of his power : we should conform to the appointments which are signified by the disposition and tendency of every atom of his works . But while it is impossible the Deity should ...
... lence , the indefinite , stupendous , and useful effects of his power : we should conform to the appointments which are signified by the disposition and tendency of every atom of his works . But while it is impossible the Deity should ...
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... lence , in favour of which every child ought to be pre- possessed ; and may it not be added , that to expect to keep the mind void of all prepossession , even upon any subject , appears to be altogether a vain and unpracti- cable ...
... lence , in favour of which every child ought to be pre- possessed ; and may it not be added , that to expect to keep the mind void of all prepossession , even upon any subject , appears to be altogether a vain and unpracti- cable ...
الصفحة 110
... lence , the enflamed praises she will continually hear bestowed on this quality , will fix in her the opinion , that we mean to keep her in ignorance of her true worth . She will think herself deceived , and she will resent the injury ...
... lence , the enflamed praises she will continually hear bestowed on this quality , will fix in her the opinion , that we mean to keep her in ignorance of her true worth . She will think herself deceived , and she will resent the injury ...
الصفحة 169
... lence ) some instruction in Latin is very useful . There is so much Latin in the English tongue , that a very ac- curate knowledge of the one can hardly be attained without some knowledge of the other . Also the learn- ing of one ...
... lence ) some instruction in Latin is very useful . There is so much Latin in the English tongue , that a very ac- curate knowledge of the one can hardly be attained without some knowledge of the other . Also the learn- ing of one ...
الصفحة 181
... lence . An active maturity must be preceded by a busy childhood . Let us not then from a mistaken com- passion to infant years , suffer the mind to grow up in habits of inattention and irresolution . One of the arts that tend most to ...
... lence . An active maturity must be preceded by a busy childhood . Let us not then from a mistaken com- passion to infant years , suffer the mind to grow up in habits of inattention and irresolution . One of the arts that tend most to ...
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الصفحة 326 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
الصفحة 132 - ... thereof in some chosen short book lessoned thoroughly to them, they might then forthwith proceed to learn the substance of good things, and arts in due order, which would bring the whole language quickly into their power.
الصفحة 138 - Can there be any thing more ridiculous, than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade...
الصفحة 134 - For their studies : first, they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used or any better ; and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.
الصفحة 132 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
الصفحة 133 - ... having but newly left those grammatic flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction, and now on the sudden transported under another climate, to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning, mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge...
الصفحة 132 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
الصفحة 326 - I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much then, after two or three years that they have well laid their grounds, but to ride out in companies with prudent and staid guides...
الصفحة 139 - Fables, and writing the English translation (made as literal as it can be) in one line, and the Latin words which answer each of them, just over it in another.
الصفحة 257 - And in natural philosophy they may proceed leisurely from \ the history of meteors, minerals, plants, and living creatures, as far as anatomy.