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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... kind of affront to the understandings of man- kind to labour to convince them of a truth , as evident as that the sun shines at noon - day . A parent , in any station of life whatever , may and ought to bestow half an hour or an hour ...
... kind of affront to the understandings of man- kind to labour to convince them of a truth , as evident as that the sun shines at noon - day . A parent , in any station of life whatever , may and ought to bestow half an hour or an hour ...
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... kind of mechanical prejudice as would enforce the be- lief of any thing ; but is not the whole of our treat- ment of children necessarily of a piece with this ? and do we not prejudice them in favour of our own opinions and practices ...
... kind of mechanical prejudice as would enforce the be- lief of any thing ; but is not the whole of our treat- ment of children necessarily of a piece with this ? and do we not prejudice them in favour of our own opinions and practices ...
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... kind , unless they converse with nobody but himself and a few select friends , who may be apprised of his scheme and concur with him in it . Nay , if children go to any school , or be allowed to converse with the servants or dependants ...
... kind , unless they converse with nobody but himself and a few select friends , who may be apprised of his scheme and concur with him in it . Nay , if children go to any school , or be allowed to converse with the servants or dependants ...
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... kind of life the child is intended . Your daughter is born to shine in the great world , at Paris , at court . When she is eighteen and her own mistress , do you think it will be possible for her to go every day to mass , to confess ...
... kind of life the child is intended . Your daughter is born to shine in the great world , at Paris , at court . When she is eighteen and her own mistress , do you think it will be possible for her to go every day to mass , to confess ...
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... kind hand to lead them up the steep ascent . The fruit of Deism on which pure Christianity has been ingrafted , must be far superior to that produced by Deism when suffered to grow wild and uncultivated . At nine or ten years of age , I ...
... kind hand to lead them up the steep ascent . The fruit of Deism on which pure Christianity has been ingrafted , must be far superior to that produced by Deism when suffered to grow wild and uncultivated . At nine or ten years of age , I ...
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.