The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on Education, from the Time of Montaigne to the Present Day, Methodized and Arranged, Band 2J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... beauty . An intelligent mother will seize the first occasion which the child's opening understanding shall allow , for making a little course of lectures on the Lord's prayer , taking every division or short sentence sepa- rately , for ...
... beauty . An intelligent mother will seize the first occasion which the child's opening understanding shall allow , for making a little course of lectures on the Lord's prayer , taking every division or short sentence sepa- rately , for ...
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remarkable words and turns of expression , or passages which have a particular beauty or energy ; and like- wise whether , among the theses given to declaim upon , it might not be profitable sometimes to choose those wherein the boys ...
remarkable words and turns of expression , or passages which have a particular beauty or energy ; and like- wise whether , among the theses given to declaim upon , it might not be profitable sometimes to choose those wherein the boys ...
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... with her virtues . Her beauty , her charms , her attractions , scarcely begin to open , ere she governs by that sweetness and that gentleness which render her modesty irresistible . The roughest , and on the Education of Girls . 83.
... with her virtues . Her beauty , her charms , her attractions , scarcely begin to open , ere she governs by that sweetness and that gentleness which render her modesty irresistible . The roughest , and on the Education of Girls . 83.
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... beauty does not lead her to forget her sex or youth , who interests every one by her timidity , and who gains the esteem of the whole world by the respectfulness of her deportment . Though I have said that a woman should be per- fectly ...
... beauty does not lead her to forget her sex or youth , who interests every one by her timidity , and who gains the esteem of the whole world by the respectfulness of her deportment . Though I have said that a woman should be per- fectly ...
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... beauty . The effect of both is heightened by all possible means , at an expense frequently felt for a long time after . They are intoxicated by so many things concurring to deprive them of their little senses . Gazers and flatterers ...
... beauty . The effect of both is heightened by all possible means , at an expense frequently felt for a long time after . They are intoxicated by so many things concurring to deprive them of their little senses . Gazers and flatterers ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accustomed acquainted acquire Adelaide advantage amusement appear attention beauty begin better botany boys cation cerns child conversation cultivated daugh daughters declensions Deism desire domestic drawing dress duties effect elegant English Eutropius excellent exer exercise female French friends gentleman give grammar Greek habit happiness harpsichord heart human ideas improvement instruction irreligion knowledge language Latin lative lessons Madame de Genlis manner master means ment method mind moral mother natural history natural philosophy nature necessary neglect neral never object observe opinion orreries parents passions perfect perhaps perly pleasure portunity practice principles proper pupil quire racter reason religion render rules scholars sider speak sufficient taste taught teach thing tion tongue truth tural tutor understand virtue wish woman words writing young ladies young persons young women youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 257 - And in natural philosophy they may proceed leisurely from \ the history of meteors, minerals, plants, and living creatures, as far as anatomy.