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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... fix the destination for eternity ? Or , if I may be allowed to address another and a still more dilatory class , who are for procrastinating all con- cern about religion , till we are driven to it by actual distress , and who do not ...
... fix the destination for eternity ? Or , if I may be allowed to address another and a still more dilatory class , who are for procrastinating all con- cern about religion , till we are driven to it by actual distress , and who do not ...
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... fixed on a tutor , you must be sure to use him with great respect yourself , and cause all your family to do so too ; for you cannot expect your son should have any regard for one whom he sees you , or his mother , or others , slight ...
... fixed on a tutor , you must be sure to use him with great respect yourself , and cause all your family to do so too ; for you cannot expect your son should have any regard for one whom he sees you , or his mother , or others , slight ...
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... fixed to a seat seven or eight hours a day , which time ought to be spent in exercise and diversions . Sitting so long cannot fail to produce the worst effects upon the body , nor is the mind less injured . Early application weakens the ...
... fixed to a seat seven or eight hours a day , which time ought to be spent in exercise and diversions . Sitting so long cannot fail to produce the worst effects upon the body , nor is the mind less injured . Early application weakens the ...
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... fixed , with eager anticipating hopes for at least , to speak with moderation , half of the time , and when they arrive , they are spent in total dissipation and beastly indulgence . But on the contrary , when they are brought up at ...
... fixed , with eager anticipating hopes for at least , to speak with moderation , half of the time , and when they arrive , they are spent in total dissipation and beastly indulgence . But on the contrary , when they are brought up at ...
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... fixed on one particular subject during several weeks , they will retain what they read much better , than when they only devour a number of trifling publications , each of which treats perhaps of twenty different subjects . Voyages and ...
... fixed on one particular subject during several weeks , they will retain what they read much better , than when they only devour a number of trifling publications , each of which treats perhaps of twenty different subjects . Voyages and ...
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Страница 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.
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.
Страница 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...
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.
Страница 257 - And in natural philosophy they may proceed leisurely from \ the history of meteors, minerals, plants, and living creatures, as far as anatomy.