Essays on Practical Education, Band 2R. Hunter, 1822 |
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... instruct are apt to encou- rage them with too large a portion of praise ; the smallest quantity of stimulus that can produce the exertion we desire , should be used ; if we use more , we waste our power , and injure our pupil . As soon ...
... instruct are apt to encou- rage them with too large a portion of praise ; the smallest quantity of stimulus that can produce the exertion we desire , should be used ; if we use more , we waste our power , and injure our pupil . As soon ...
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... instruction upon abstract subjects . The enumeration of the months in the year , the days in the week , of metals , & c . are excellent lessons for a child who is just beginning to learn to read . The classifica- tion of animals into ...
... instruction upon abstract subjects . The enumeration of the months in the year , the days in the week , of metals , & c . are excellent lessons for a child who is just beginning to learn to read . The classifica- tion of animals into ...
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... instruction of children . As we know the effect of such apprehensions of difficulty , we forbear from insisting upon historical hangings , especially as we think that children should not , by any great apparatus for teaching them ...
... instruction of children . As we know the effect of such apprehensions of difficulty , we forbear from insisting upon historical hangings , especially as we think that children should not , by any great apparatus for teaching them ...
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... instruct must pursue the opposite system . In Dr. Wilkins's Essay on Universal Lan- guage , he proposes to introduce a note simi- lar to the common note of admiration , to give the reader notice when any expression is used , in an ...
... instruct must pursue the opposite system . In Dr. Wilkins's Essay on Universal Lan- guage , he proposes to introduce a note simi- lar to the common note of admiration , to give the reader notice when any expression is used , in an ...
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... instruct and form them in the art of writing ; but few things can be more terrific or dangerous to the young writer , than the voice of relentless criticism . Hope stimulates , but fear de- presses the active power of the mind ; and how ...
... instruct and form them in the art of writing ; but few things can be more terrific or dangerous to the young writer , than the voice of relentless criticism . Hope stimulates , but fear de- presses the active power of the mind ; and how ...
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Seite 150 - Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone.
Seite 356 - Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te " — * * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown : " I do not love thee, Dr. Fell...
Seite 435 - The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her fav'rite lock; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. "To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Seite 151 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others
Seite 435 - For rising merit will buoy up at last. Might he return, and bless once more our eyes, New...
Seite 151 - And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly's idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe ; By vain Prosperity received, To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
Seite 196 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious, on the tainted green...
Seite 443 - The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property is in lightning, but since they agree in all the particulars in which we can already compare them, is it not probable they agree likewise in this? Let the experiment be made.
Seite 193 - The dominion of speech," he says, " is erected upon the downfall of interjections. Without the artful contrivances of language, mankind would have had nothing but interjections with which to communicate, orally, any of their feelings. The neighing of a horse, the lowing of a cow, the barking of a dog, the purring of a cat, sneezing, coughing, groaning, shrieking, and every other involuntary convulsion with oral sound, have almost as good a title to be called parts of speech as interjections have.
Seite 6 - There would be no need of virtue or self-denial to be mov'd to such a scene; and not only a man of humanity, of good morals and commiseration, but likewise an highwayman, an house-breaker, or a murderer, could feel anxieties on such an occasion...