 | James Burgh - Conduct of life - 1802 - 438 pages
...prejudice it againft religion for life ; but the latter, properly conducted, will prove an endlefsly- various entertainment. There is not a duty of morality, you can have occafion to inculcate, but what may give an opportunity of raifmg fome entertaining obfervaticm, or... | |
 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...will philosophy and mathematics save his soul ? But it is to be feared that parents in some cases, through a mistaken notion of the true method of giving...observation or introducing some amusing history. And though it may sometimes happen that a youth well brought up may, by the force of temptation, run into... | |
 | Samuel Read Hall - Elementary school teaching - 1832 - 184 pages
...is -to bejeared that parents in some cases,. through a mistaken notion of the true method of giving1 youth a religious turn, often run into the extreme...can have occasion to inculcate, but what may give an opportuniof raising some entertaining observation or introducing some amusing history. And though it... | |
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But it is to be feared that parents in some cases, through a mistaken notion of the true method of giving youth a religious turn, often run into the extreme of surfeiting them with religious exercises, instead of labouring chiefly to enlighten and convince... 