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Afterwards Alii Animalia aquâ aquam Arbores atque ita Axle-tree Beasts betwixt Birds Book Cæli called cantat carried Children circa Cœlum Comenius componit conficit Corn Corporis cujus Deinde dicitur Domus doth draweth Earth edition ejus English etiam excitat facit faciunt fiunt goeth habet hæc hang hangeth hath Hinc HISTORY OF EDUCATION homines Horse House igne illis inter Janua JOHN AMOS COMENIUS Latin Tongue layeth left hand Luna maketh malè Manus medio Navis Nephews Nubes Numina olim omnia omnium Orbis Pictus Orbis Sensualium Pictus pedes Pictures Pisces Podolia Postea Primò Prora putteth quâ quæ quam quibus quid Quidam quod quorum Remiges rerum Rota runneth scholars Scorpius sedens sedent Serpent setteth sibi sive solent sternit Stones sunt super tandem Tecto tegitur tergit Terræ terram things thorow thou translated Trees Wheel whereof words
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Page xii - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Page xviii - IV. Let them be suffered also to imitate the Pictures by hand, if they will, nay rather, let them be encouraged, that they may be willing : first, thus to quicken the attention also towards the things ; and to observe the proportion of the parts one towards another; and lastly to practise the nimbleness of the hand, which is good for many things.
Page xi - Visible world: or, A nomenclature, and pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men's employments therein; in above 150 cuts.
Page xvi - The very looking upon the thing pictured suggesting the name of the thing will tell the child how the title of the picture is to be read. And thus the whole book being gone over by the bare titles of the pictures, reading cannot but be learned — and indeed, too, without using any ordinary tedious spelling — that most troublesome torture of wits.
Page xxi - ... than a delight and furtherance. For to pack up many words in memory, of things not conceived in the mind, is to fill the head with empty imaginations, and to make the learner more TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
Page xix - Since some things can not be pictured out with ink, for this reason it were to be wished, that things rare, and not easy to be met with withal at home, might be kept ready in every great school, that they may be showed also, as often as any words are to be made of them to the scholars. Thus at last this school would indeed become a school of things obvious to the senses, and an entrance to the school intellectual.
Page xviii - I. Let it be given to children into their hands to delight themselves withal as they please, with the sight of the pictures, and making them as familiar to themselves as may be, and that even at home before they be put to school.
Page 119 - d to vertue, and it is distinguished into Forms. The Master, 2. sitteth in a Chair, 3. the Scholars, 4. in Forms, 5. he teacheth, they learn. Some things are writ down before them with Chalk on a Table, 6. Some sit at a Table, and write, 7. he mendeth their Faults, 8.
Page xxv - Children, do not much trouble their thoughts and clog their memories with bare Grammar Rudiments, which to them are harsh in getting, and fluid in retaining; because indeed to them they signifie nothing, but a mere swimming notion of a general term, which they know not what it meaneth, till they comprehend particulars...
Page ii - Janua) could carry it, was indeed agreed withal, by our Mr. Winthrop in his travels through the low countries, to come over into New England, and illuminate this Colledge and country, in the quality of a President, which was now become vacant. But the solicitations of the Swedish Ambassador diverting him another way, that incomparable Moravian became not an American.