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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... employed than in examining into sacred truth ; and as nothing is likely to produce a lasting effect upon the mind but what the mind is clearly convinced of ; on these and all other accounts it is absolutely necessary that young people ...
... employed than in examining into sacred truth ; and as nothing is likely to produce a lasting effect upon the mind but what the mind is clearly convinced of ; on these and all other accounts it is absolutely necessary that young people ...
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... employ French prayer - books and bibles , ought to be universally abo- lished . Its effect is to withdraw the mind from every sense of devotion , and to make the acquisition of a few foreign words and phrases rank higher than the ...
... employ French prayer - books and bibles , ought to be universally abo- lished . Its effect is to withdraw the mind from every sense of devotion , and to make the acquisition of a few foreign words and phrases rank higher than the ...
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... and short . In order to unite as much as possible the advantages of a private and public education , I would advise that a private tutor should be employed for some of the ' Public and private Education , Schools , & c . 45.
... and short . In order to unite as much as possible the advantages of a private and public education , I would advise that a private tutor should be employed for some of the ' Public and private Education , Schools , & c . 45.
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a private tutor should be employed for some of the earliest years of a person's life . Afterwards , if it be easily ... employ other persons to instruct his child in the several branches of science , yet at least the general conduct of ...
a private tutor should be employed for some of the earliest years of a person's life . Afterwards , if it be easily ... employ other persons to instruct his child in the several branches of science , yet at least the general conduct of ...
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... employed . But suppose the way to make children scholars was to send them to school early , it certainly ought not to be done at the expense of the constitution . Our ancestors , who seldom went to school very young , Public and private ...
... employed . But suppose the way to make children scholars was to send them to school early , it certainly ought not to be done at the expense of the constitution . Our ancestors , who seldom went to school very young , Public and private ...
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
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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.