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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... begin with , without going to explain this matter any farther , for fear , lest by talking too early of spirits , and being unreasonably forward to make him understand the in- comprehensible nature of that infinite Being , his head be ...
... begin with , without going to explain this matter any farther , for fear , lest by talking too early of spirits , and being unreasonably forward to make him understand the in- comprehensible nature of that infinite Being , his head be ...
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... begin the study of natural philosophy , that many phenomena may be referred to the immediate will of God , instead of only accounting for them by physical or natural causes . - Locke . The first use we should make of a child's reason ...
... begin the study of natural philosophy , that many phenomena may be referred to the immediate will of God , instead of only accounting for them by physical or natural causes . - Locke . The first use we should make of a child's reason ...
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... begin to learn ; for he is not again obliged to set out with studying the simple elements ; they come back on being pursued ; they are found on being searched for ; the decayed images assume shape , and strength , and colour ; he has in ...
... begin to learn ; for he is not again obliged to set out with studying the simple elements ; they come back on being pursued ; they are found on being searched for ; the decayed images assume shape , and strength , and colour ; he has in ...
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... begin to acquire new ones . I appeal to clergymen who are called to attend the dying beds of such as have been bred in gross and stupid ignorance of religion , for the justness of this comparison . Do they not find that these unhappy ...
... begin to acquire new ones . I appeal to clergymen who are called to attend the dying beds of such as have been bred in gross and stupid ignorance of religion , for the justness of this comparison . Do they not find that these unhappy ...
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... begin to pray when the storm 66 66 began . " Of these I would ask , shall we , with an unaccountable deliberation , defer our anxiety about re- ligion , till the busy man or dissipated woman are 12 Religion and Moral Philosophy .
... begin to pray when the storm 66 66 began . " Of these I would ask , shall we , with an unaccountable deliberation , defer our anxiety about re- ligion , till the busy man or dissipated woman are 12 Religion and Moral Philosophy .
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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.