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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... boys to read to themselves such and such chapters in the Bible , of which they were afterwards to give me an account in the evening . I then asked the scholars , without observ- ing any order , what had most struck them in their read ...
... boys to read to themselves such and such chapters in the Bible , of which they were afterwards to give me an account in the evening . I then asked the scholars , without observ- ing any order , what had most struck them in their read ...
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... boys when they are sent out into the world , Books of controversy are , perhaps , very useless to young persons , unless their minds be unsettled on any particular points , and then if they wish for any other guides than the different ...
... boys when they are sent out into the world , Books of controversy are , perhaps , very useless to young persons , unless their minds be unsettled on any particular points , and then if they wish for any other guides than the different ...
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... boys of his own age ; and the emulation of school - fellows often puts life and industry into young lads . But till you can find a school where it is possible for the master to look after the manners of his scholars , and can show as ...
... boys of his own age ; and the emulation of school - fellows often puts life and industry into young lads . But till you can find a school where it is possible for the master to look after the manners of his scholars , and can show as ...
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... boys , will think the faults of a private education infinitely to be preferred to such improvements , and will take care to preserve his child's innocence and modesty at home , as being nearer a - kin and more in the way of those ...
... boys , will think the faults of a private education infinitely to be preferred to such improvements , and will take care to preserve his child's innocence and modesty at home , as being nearer a - kin and more in the way of those ...
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... boys are exposed to greater danger in public schools than at home . Were this the case , he said , he should not hesitate a moment in deciding in favour of a home education ; as the care of living well is infinitely preferable to that ...
... boys are exposed to greater danger in public schools than at home . Were this the case , he said , he should not hesitate a moment in deciding in favour of a home education ; as the care of living well is infinitely preferable to that ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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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.