A Sketch of My Friend's Family: Intended to Suggest Some Practical Hints on Religion and Domestic Mannersauthor; Vernon, Hood, and Sharpe; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 - Education - 134 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 78
Page 4
... hand : they who compare the mind of a child to a sheet of blank paper , to be written on at pleasure , have surely never observed even infants : some have been born ideots , and have continued so through life ; but the mo- ment that an ...
... hand : they who compare the mind of a child to a sheet of blank paper , to be written on at pleasure , have surely never observed even infants : some have been born ideots , and have continued so through life ; but the mo- ment that an ...
Page 11
... hands , and gave herself a very deep cut with them : she kept a perfect silence however , and in a little time asked my leave to go away ; as she had seemed quite happy and pleased but a minute or two before , I could not discover why ...
... hands , and gave herself a very deep cut with them : she kept a perfect silence however , and in a little time asked my leave to go away ; as she had seemed quite happy and pleased but a minute or two before , I could not discover why ...
Page 22
... hands of a little child by a foolish teacher ; when this child begins to understand , he can perceive a meaning in the former , but in the latter what can he discover but what it is , a mere jumble of silly words ? I am happy to notice ...
... hands of a little child by a foolish teacher ; when this child begins to understand , he can perceive a meaning in the former , but in the latter what can he discover but what it is , a mere jumble of silly words ? I am happy to notice ...
Page 53
... hand to be ; point out to them the va- lue and the necessity of truth , the danger of asserting a falsehood : this may have some influence in teaching them to become , if they are not already so , dutiful and affectionate . People D 3 53.
... hand to be ; point out to them the va- lue and the necessity of truth , the danger of asserting a falsehood : this may have some influence in teaching them to become , if they are not already so , dutiful and affectionate . People D 3 53.
Page 54
... : the strict adherent to truth will scarcely fall into any gross vices : virtues are united together . If " he that offends in one point is guilty of all , " may we not on the other hand suppose that he who is strict 54.
... : the strict adherent to truth will scarcely fall into any gross vices : virtues are united together . If " he that offends in one point is guilty of all , " may we not on the other hand suppose that he who is strict 54.
Other editions - View all
Thoughts on Education: In Two Parts, the First on General Education, and the ... Agnes Sophia Semple No preview available - 2017 |
Thoughts on Education: In Two Parts, the First on General Education, and the ... Agnes Sophia Semple No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
affection affectionate amiable amusements attention beauty benevolence Bermondsey better Bible BLORENGE called cation CHAP Chepstow chil child child water Clifford conduct daugh daughter dear death delight discommend domestic dren duties early Edgworth Emma Epictetus evil falsehood fant father fault feelings female fond give Gosport gratitude habits hand happy heart hope human impa important indulged infant instructed instructors Islington labour lady let parents likewise little girl live master ment mind Miss morning mother nature ness never nished numbers nurse o'er observed pain passion perhaps person piety pleasure Plutarch poor prayer punishment pupils quired racters religion remember rendered replied respect Savage Gardens scarcely servants shew Sir Charles Ross strangers Talbut taught teach teachers tears tence thing thoughts tion truth vice virtue virtuous wisdom wise woman young children youth
Popular passages
Page 135 - And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him ; and he kissed them, and embraced them. And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face : and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Page 74 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 121 - Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near i — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Page 39 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 72 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by One who had himself Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live.
Page 95 - ... meanest things that are— As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in His sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 133 - Heaven : these are the matchless joys of virtuous love; and thus their moments fly. The Seasons thus, as ceaseless round a jarring world they roll, still find them happy...
Page 19 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.
Page 164 - ... sensible manner, that mighty power which prevails throughout, acting with a force and efficacy that appears to suffer no diminution from the greatest distances of space or intervals of time; and that wisdom which we see equally displayed in the exquisite structure and just motions of the greatest and subtilest parts. These, with perfect goodness, by which they are evidently directed, constitute the supreme object of the speculations of a philosopher; who, while he contemplates and admires so...