The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on Education, from the Time of Montaigne to the Present Day, Methodized and Arranged, Volumen 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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Página 80 - The great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this : that a. man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way. This power is to be got and improved by custom,
Página 82 - a way how to keep up a child's spirits, easy, active, and free, and ?yet at the same time to restrain him from many things that are uneasy to him, he I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming contradictions, has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education.
Página 82 - and so make able and great men ; but dejected minds, timorous and tame, and low spirits, are hardly ever to be raised, and very seldom attain to any thing. To avoid the danger that is on either hand is the great art, and he that has found
Página 83 - be enough either to remove or quiet them for that time. But this gamesome humour, which is wisely adapted by nature to their age and temper, should rather be encouraged, to keep up their spirits and improve their strength and health, than curbed and restrained ; and the chief art is to make all
Página 87 - in vain, and what is so plastered on will at last sit but untOwardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint and affectation. I think frequent and passionate chiding a very bad thing. It lessens the authority of the parents, and the
Página 302 - at the lower end of the table, unless bid to go higher, to drink first to the lady of the house and next to the master, not to eat awkwardly or dirtily, not to sit when others stand, and to do all this with an air of complaisance and not with a grave sour look, as if
Página 80 - This power is to be got and improved by custom, and made easy and familiar by early practice. If, therefore, I might be heard, I would advise that, contrary to the ordinary way, children should be used to submit their desires, and go without their longings even from
Página 86 - consequently useless, or else you must let the transgression of some of your rules go unpunished, whereby they will of course grow contemptible, and your authority become cheap to them. Make but few laws, but see they be well observed when once made. Few years require few laws, and, as
Página 171 - he may please silly people who commend tame unactive children, because they make no noise, nor give them any trouble, yet at last he will prove as uncomfortable a thing to his friends, as he will be all his life an useless thing to himself and others.
Página 88 - in vicious things, a look or nod only ought to correct them when they do amiss ; or if words are sometimes used, they ought to be grave, kind, and sober. Passionate chiding usually carries rough and ill language with it, which has this farther ill effect, that it teaches and justifies it in children. Begin