Thoughts on domestic education; the result of experience. By a mother, author of 'Always happy'.C. Knight, 1826 - 366 Seiten |
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Seite 275 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Seite 228 - lie that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.'' And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings.
Seite 7 - Meantime a smiling offspring rises round, And mingles both their graces. .By degrees, The human blossom blows; and every day, Soft as it rolls along, shows some new charm, The father's lustre and the mother's bloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care.
Seite 174 - In the midst of so arid a country, the water-melon, the most juicy of fruits, is found in profusion. It is really a subject of wonder to see melons three or four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk as slender as that of the common melon, in the dry sand of the desart. They are sown, and perhaps require some cultivation, but they are scattered about to all appearance as if they grew wild.
Seite 127 - Même après sa défaite il tient tête au vainqueur. . Voyez, pour gagner temps , quelles lenteurs savantes Prolongent de ses mots les syllabes traînantes ! Tout le monde l'admire, et ne peut concevoir Que dans un cerveau seul loge tant de savoir.
Seite 209 - C'est la profonde ignorance qui inspire le ton dogmatique. Celui qui ne sait rien croit enseigner aux autres ce qu'il vient d'apprendre luimême ; celui qui sait beaucoup pense à peine que ce qu'il dit puisse être ignoré, et parle plus indifféremment.
Seite 345 - I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing ; But och ! it hardens a...
Seite 189 - L'on se repent rarement de parler peu; très souvent, de trop parler : maxime usée et triviale, que tout le monde sait, et que tout le monde ne pratique pas.
Seite 346 - Narrative of a Visit to Brazil, Chili, Peru, and the Sandwich Islands, during the Years 1821 and 1822, with Remarks on the Past and Present State and Political Prospects of Those Countries.
Seite 127 - II paraît, et soudain le mal perd son horreur, Le besoin sa détresse, et la mort sa terreur. Qui prévient le besoin, prévient souvent le crime : Le pauvre le bénit, et le riche l'estime ; Et souvent deux mortels l'un de l'autre ennemis S'embrassent à sa table et retournent amis.