The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on Education, from the Time of Montaigne to the Present Day, Methodized and Arranged, Volumen 2J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... English , French , and , in a word , whatever will render them capa- ble of educating others . - Mad . de la Fite . Boarding schools for girls may be compared to hot- beds 48 Public and private Education , Schools , & c .
... English , French , and , in a word , whatever will render them capa- ble of educating others . - Mad . de la Fite . Boarding schools for girls may be compared to hot- beds 48 Public and private Education , Schools , & c .
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... English translation of the same work , even should they not understand French themselves . Those who do not learn French may in the same manner trans- late Latin into English . Boys at school know little or nothing of geography ; on ...
... English translation of the same work , even should they not understand French themselves . Those who do not learn French may in the same manner trans- late Latin into English . Boys at school know little or nothing of geography ; on ...
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... English woman take as much pains to improve herself in agreeable accomplishments in order to please her future husband , as a young Al- banese for the haram at Jopahan . But it is said , husbands do not pay much attention to these accom ...
... English woman take as much pains to improve herself in agreeable accomplishments in order to please her future husband , as a young Al- banese for the haram at Jopahan . But it is said , husbands do not pay much attention to these accom ...
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... English style . Girls usually write better than boys ; they think and express their thoughts clearly at an age when young men can scarcely write an easy letter upon any common occa- sion . Women do not read the best authors of anti ...
... English style . Girls usually write better than boys ; they think and express their thoughts clearly at an age when young men can scarcely write an easy letter upon any common occa- sion . Women do not read the best authors of anti ...
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... English language , and an intimate acquaintance with the best authors who have excelled in history , bio- graphy , poetry , and morality , are indispensable , Simple mathematics are so advantageous in accustoming the mind to method both ...
... English language , and an intimate acquaintance with the best authors who have excelled in history , bio- graphy , poetry , and morality , are indispensable , Simple mathematics are so advantageous in accustoming the mind to method both ...
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 257 - And in natural philosophy they may proceed leisurely from \ the history of meteors, minerals, plants, and living creatures, as far as anatomy.