The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on Education, from the Time of Montaigne to the Present Day, Methodized and Arranged, Том 2J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... appears mysterious and miraculous . For , as Montaigne says , " not to believe what we do not " understand is a dangerous sort of courage , and may " be attended with bad consequences ; besides the ab- " surdity into which it draws us ...
... appears mysterious and miraculous . For , as Montaigne says , " not to believe what we do not " understand is a dangerous sort of courage , and may " be attended with bad consequences ; besides the ab- " surdity into which it draws us ...
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... appears to me to consist in two circumstances : 1st , they are commonly inculcated in the form of a dry authori- tative lecture , whence religion is rather dreaded as an austere monitor and relentless judge , than loved as the giver of ...
... appears to me to consist in two circumstances : 1st , they are commonly inculcated in the form of a dry authori- tative lecture , whence religion is rather dreaded as an austere monitor and relentless judge , than loved as the giver of ...
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... appears to be altogether a vain and unpracti- cable attempt ; an attempt , the very suggestion of which argues much ignorance of human nature . Let philosophers say what they will , it is much to give youth prepossessions in favour of ...
... appears to be altogether a vain and unpracti- cable attempt ; an attempt , the very suggestion of which argues much ignorance of human nature . Let philosophers say what they will , it is much to give youth prepossessions in favour of ...
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... yet at least the general conduct of his education should appear to be his own , and he should , from time to time , give particular attention to it : that the idea of master 46 Public and private Education , Schools , & c .
... yet at least the general conduct of his education should appear to be his own , and he should , from time to time , give particular attention to it : that the idea of master 46 Public and private Education , Schools , & c .
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particular attention to it : that the idea of master or tutor may always appear subordinate to that of parent , the one being an instrument in the hands of the other ; and for this end , the chief agent should not keep him- self too far ...
particular attention to it : that the idea of master or tutor may always appear subordinate to that of parent , the one being an instrument in the hands of the other ; and for this end , the chief agent should not keep him- self too far ...
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Страница 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.
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
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