Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, Том 1S.H. Parker, 1825 |
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... pains bestowed on their education , is equally evident ; wherever , there- fore , education becomes an object of universal interest and attention , we may safely pronounce society to be in a state of progressive improve- ment . From the ...
... pains bestowed on their education , is equally evident ; wherever , there- fore , education becomes an object of universal interest and attention , we may safely pronounce society to be in a state of progressive improve- ment . From the ...
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... pain and death , which forms such a prominent feature in the char- acter of the American savage , can by no means be ascribed to an organization and temperament simi- * See Mrs. Kindersley's Letters from India . lar to that of the ...
... pain and death , which forms such a prominent feature in the char- acter of the American savage , can by no means be ascribed to an organization and temperament simi- * See Mrs. Kindersley's Letters from India . lar to that of the ...
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... pains that are taken by the Hindoo , to associate the idea of good with a strict adherence to the duties prescrib- ed by his religion , and the idea of evil with the slightest deviation from the rules of his cast , are rendered ...
... pains that are taken by the Hindoo , to associate the idea of good with a strict adherence to the duties prescrib- ed by his religion , and the idea of evil with the slightest deviation from the rules of his cast , are rendered ...
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... pains we took to lecture them to virtue - yet we must confess , the early associa- tions that gave an exclusive preference for whatever was genteel , to have been the operating principle of their minds . The ideas connected with the ...
... pains we took to lecture them to virtue - yet we must confess , the early associa- tions that gave an exclusive preference for whatever was genteel , to have been the operating principle of their minds . The ideas connected with the ...
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... pains of childhood are not the pleasures and pains of our riper years , and that this change of the objects of desire or aver- sion shows the early association of ideas to have been slight and transient . " That thousands of casual ...
... pains of childhood are not the pleasures and pains of our riper years , and that this change of the objects of desire or aver- sion shows the early association of ideas to have been slight and transient . " That thousands of casual ...
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Страница 127 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Страница 170 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Страница 237 - To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Страница 237 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like man, to perform a hospitable or generous action; not haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, but full of courtesy and fond of society...
Страница 237 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel, with a double relish.
Страница 27 - ... following : First, to cultivate all the various principles of our nature, both speculative and active, in such a manner as to bring them to the greatest perfection of which they are susceptible ; and, secondly, by watching over the impressions and associations which the mind receives in early life, to secure it against the influence of prevailing errors, and, as far as possible, to engage its prepossessions on the side of truth.
Страница 234 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...
Страница 68 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God ; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone ; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord : in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Страница 191 - But's happier than me : For I have known The luscious sweets of plenty; every night Have slept with soft content about my head, And never wak'd but to a joyful morning ; Yet now must fall like a full ear of corn, Whose blossom 'scap'd, yet's wither'd in the ripening.
Страница 189 - But the subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume and dishonour the names both of Greeks and Romans, present a dead uniformity of abject vices, which are neither softened by the weakness of humanity nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The...