Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline

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James R. Buffum, 1826 - 168 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 136 - The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law"; so the things that are revealed belong to us.
الصفحة 143 - Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad majestic oak To the green blade, that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
الصفحة 64 - Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
الصفحة 29 - ... plans and expedients of their own, and the consequences of often adjusting them ill. I have known several parents, both fathers and mothers, whose management of their families has answered this description, and has displayed a striking example of the facile complacency with which a number of persons, of different ages and dispositions, will yield to the decisions of a firm mind, acting on an equitable and enlightened system.
الصفحة 2 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
الصفحة 22 - Well, madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
الصفحة 21 - Nothing but experience could evince the frequency of false information, or enable any man to conceive that so many groundless reports should be propagated, as every man of eminence may hear of himself. Some men relate what they think, as what they know; some men of confused memories and habitual inaccuracy, ascribe to one man what belongs to another ; and some talk on, without thought or care. A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters."*...
الصفحة 122 - Punctuality is important, as it gains time : it is like packing things in a box: a good packer will get in half as much more as a bad one.
الصفحة 142 - For we have not an High Priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
الصفحة 41 - There is much, in education, to be done by watching our opportunities,, by acting at the right season. With most children there is an era, and this often takes place as they are emerging from babyhood, in which a struggle is made for the mastery, — in which it is to be decided who is to rule, — the child,, or those who are placed over him. At such a juncture, in order to determine the matter, and firmly to establish authority, it will be necessary to. employ vigorous measures, and to suppress...

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