Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, Volumen 1S.H. Parker, 1825 |
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... expect to play to advantage without a know- ledge of the rules of the game ? Few chess - players , despise the investigation of the parties of Philidor . And here , did I not intend to disclaim the use of figure and allegory , I should ...
... expect to play to advantage without a know- ledge of the rules of the game ? Few chess - players , despise the investigation of the parties of Philidor . And here , did I not intend to disclaim the use of figure and allegory , I should ...
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... expect from me those beauties of style , and that profusion of imagery , which adorn the works of some admired writers of my own sex on the same subject : For though I am sensible that these ornaments diffuse a charm over the pages of ...
... expect from me those beauties of style , and that profusion of imagery , which adorn the works of some admired writers of my own sex on the same subject : For though I am sensible that these ornaments diffuse a charm over the pages of ...
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... equally employ a system of falsehood , and then we expect them to speak the truth ! If symptoms of a contrary disposition appear at an early period , we never advert to the thousand lies they have from 40 LETTERS ON EDUCATION .
... equally employ a system of falsehood , and then we expect them to speak the truth ! If symptoms of a contrary disposition appear at an early period , we never advert to the thousand lies they have from 40 LETTERS ON EDUCATION .
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... expect an infant to compre- hend them ? If a father intend that his son should be a mathematician , he will not begin at four or five years old to make him get by heart the prob- lems of Euclid ; but following nature in the grad- ual ...
... expect an infant to compre- hend them ? If a father intend that his son should be a mathematician , he will not begin at four or five years old to make him get by heart the prob- lems of Euclid ; but following nature in the grad- ual ...
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... expect ; not , at least , if we permit ourselves to examine the nature of assent and dissent , rational and practical . " Rational assent to any proposition may be defined , a readiness to affirm it to be true , proceeding from a close ...
... expect ; not , at least , if we permit ourselves to examine the nature of assent and dissent , rational and practical . " Rational assent to any proposition may be defined , a readiness to affirm it to be true , proceeding from a close ...
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Página 127 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Página 170 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And 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.
Página 237 - To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Página 237 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like man, to perform a hospitable or generous action; not haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, but full of courtesy and fond of society...
Página 237 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel, with a double relish.
Página 27 - ... following : First, to cultivate all the various principles of our nature, both speculative and active, in such a manner as to bring them to the greatest perfection of which they are susceptible ; and, secondly, by watching over the impressions and associations which the mind receives in early life, to secure it against the influence of prevailing errors, and, as far as possible, to engage its prepossessions on the side of truth.
Página 234 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...
Página 68 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God ; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone ; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord : in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Página 191 - But's happier than me : For I have known The luscious sweets of plenty; every night Have slept with soft content about my head, And never wak'd but to a joyful morning ; Yet now must fall like a full ear of corn, Whose blossom 'scap'd, yet's wither'd in the ripening.
Página 189 - But the subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume and dishonour the names both of Greeks and Romans, present a dead uniformity of abject vices, which are neither softened by the weakness of humanity nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The...