Pamela: or, Virtue rewarded [by S. Richardson]. [Another], المجلد 4

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الصفحة 339 - And when she understands the Evangelists in Latin, let her, in the same manner, read ^Esop's Fables, and so proceed on to Eutropius, Justin, and other such books. I do not mention this...
الصفحة 339 - England ; knew all the great rivers, promontories, straits, and bays in the world, and could find the longitude and latitude of any place, before he was six years old.
الصفحة 298 - ... home, may there give his son a more genteel carriage, more manly thoughts, and a sense of what is worthy and becoming, with a greater proficiency in learning into the bargain, and ripen him up sooner into a man, than any at school can do.
الصفحة 314 - ... particularly servants. It is not unusual to observe the children in gentlemen's families treat the servants of the house with domineering words, names of contempt, and an imperious carriage, as if they were of another race, or species beneath them.
الصفحة 334 - I have known a young child so distracted with the number and variety of his play-games, that he tired his maid every day to look them over ; and was so accustomed to abundance, that he never thought he had enough, but was always asking, What more? What more? What new thing shall I have? A good introduction to moderate desires, and the ready way to make a contented happy man.
الصفحة 314 - ... beneath them. Whether ill example, the advantage of fortune, or their natural vanity inspire this haughtiness, it should be prevented or weeded out and a gentle, courteous, affable carriage towards the lower ranks of men placed in the room of it. No part of their superiority...
الصفحة 314 - Another way to instil sentiments of humanity, and to keep them lively in young folks, will be to accustom them to civility in their language and deportment towards their inferiors and the meaner sort of people, particularly servants.
الصفحة 298 - ... or think it to be laid to his charge. The difference is great between two or three pupils in the same house and three- or fourscore boys lodged up and down.
الصفحة 336 - There may be dice, and play-things, with the letters on them, to teach children the alphabet by playing; and twenty other ways may be found, suitable to their particular tempers, to make this kind of learning a sport to them.

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