 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 618 páginas
...result is distinctly traced in my memory. In the evening of this eventful day, the school -mistress paid my parents a visit, and recounted to their astonished...geography, or a history of any kind in the school. Beading, writing, and arithmetic were the only things taught, and these very indifferently — not... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 páginas
...very regularly to school, but by the time I was ten years old I had learned to write, and had mude a little progress in arithmetic. There was not a grammar,...more than he performed. I did as well as the other scholar?, certainly no .better. I had excellent health and joyous spirits; in leaping, running, and... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1863 - 366 páginas
...as big as Goliath's, judging by the claps of thunder it made in my ears on one or two occasions. a The next step of my progress which is marked in my...geography, or a history of any kind in the school. Eeading, writing, and arithmetic were the only things taught, and these very indifferently — not... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1864 - 348 páginas
...Goliath's, judging by the claps of thunder it made in my ears on one or two occasions. \ i 26 PETER PARLEY'S The next step of my progress which is marked in my...teacher, but because he had forty scholars, and the custom of the age required no more than he performed. I did as well as the other scholars, certainly... | |
 | 1882 - 1112 páginas
...waa a celebrity in ciphering, and 'Squire Seymour declared that he was the greatest ' arithmcticker' in Fairfield county. All I remember of his person...and the standards of the age required no more than lie performed. I did as well as the other scholars, certainly no better. I had excellent health and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1882 - 1112 páginas
...by Lewis Olmstead — a man who had a call for plowing, mowing, carting manure, ' arithmctickcr' in remember of his person is his hand, which seemed to...and the standards of the age required no more than iie performed. I did as well as the other scholars, certainly no better. I had excellent health and... | |
 | Clifton Johnson - 1904 - 436 páginas
...ciphering, and Squire Seymour declared that he was the greatest " arithmeticker " in Fairfield County. There was not a grammar, a geography, or a history...teacher, but because he had forty scholars, and the custom of the age required no more than he performed. The voters decided in town-meeting how much money... | |
 | Clifton Johnson - 1904 - 444 páginas
...ciphering, and Squire Seymour declared that he was the greatest " arithmeticker " in Fairfield County. There was not a grammar, a geography, or a history...wholly from the stupidity of the teacher, but because Vie had forty scholars, and the custom of the age required no more than he performed. The voters decided... | |
 | Samuel Chester Parker - 1912 - 540 páginas
...Squire Seymour declared that he was the greatest " arithmeticker " in Fairfield County. There u>iis not a grammar, a geography, or a history of any kind...teacher, but because he had forty scholars, and the custom of the age required no more than he performed. (2: 116.) Similar evidence, with certain additional... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1914 - 606 páginas
...in ciphering, and Squire Seymour declared he was the greatest ' arithmeticker ' in Fairfield County. There was not a grammar, a geography or a history...teacher, but because he had forty scholars, and the custom of the age required no more than he performed." While we are on the subject of the pupils and... | |
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The next step of my progress which is marked in my memory, is the spelling of words of two syllables. I did not go very regularly to school, but by the time I was ten years old I had learned to write, and had made a little progress in arithmetic. There... 
