The American Journal of Education, 23. köideHenry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1872 |
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... application ; and others only will study by fits and starts . To endeavor to bring them all to a level , and make them submit to one and the same rule , is to attempt to force nature . The prudence of the mas- ter will consist in ...
... application ; and others only will study by fits and starts . To endeavor to bring them all to a level , and make them submit to one and the same rule , is to attempt to force nature . The prudence of the mas- ter will consist in ...
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... application to do better has proved the sincerity of their repentance . Children may be rewarded by innocent plays intermixed with some industry ; by walking abroad where the conversation may be advanta- geous ; by little presents ...
... application to do better has proved the sincerity of their repentance . Children may be rewarded by innocent plays intermixed with some industry ; by walking abroad where the conversation may be advanta- geous ; by little presents ...
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... application , which insensibly wears and weakens the organs , which in that age are very tender , and incapable of taking great pains . And this gives me an opportunity of advising and entreating parents not to push their children too ...
... application , which insensibly wears and weakens the organs , which in that age are very tender , and incapable of taking great pains . And this gives me an opportunity of advising and entreating parents not to push their children too ...
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... application as study . James the first , king of Great Britain , in the instructions he left his son how to govern well , amongst other advice concerning play , forbids him chess , for this reason , that it is rather a study than a ...
... application as study . James the first , king of Great Britain , in the instructions he left his son how to govern well , amongst other advice concerning play , forbids him chess , for this reason , that it is rather a study than a ...
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... application of calculations to the so- lution of ordinary questions . As tasks , some problems . Plane Geometry . - 1 . The straight line . - Drawing a straight line on paper ; means of verifying whether a rule is quite straight ; use ...
... application of calculations to the so- lution of ordinary questions . As tasks , some problems . Plane Geometry . - 1 . The straight line . - Drawing a straight line on paper ; means of verifying whether a rule is quite straight ; use ...
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Page 103 - ... and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Page 205 - ... books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 31 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 279 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain...
Page 250 - If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be/ as Poor Richard says, ' the greatest prodigality ; ' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Page 236 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Page 103 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 286 - To make the weight for the winds ; And he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 236 - But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice ; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Page 254 - Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct...