The American Journal of Education, Volume 23Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1872 - Education |
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... necessary medicine . The readiness with which children learn and remember words , is in truth a most important advantage if rightly em- ployed ; viz . , if applied to the acquiring that mass of what may be called arbitrary · knowledge ...
... necessary medicine . The readiness with which children learn and remember words , is in truth a most important advantage if rightly em- ployed ; viz . , if applied to the acquiring that mass of what may be called arbitrary · knowledge ...
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... necessary with a view to give fair play to the reasoning powers , in subjects where we are liable to a bias from interest or feelings , so , a fallacious perversion of this maxim finds a place in the minds of some persons ; who ...
... necessary with a view to give fair play to the reasoning powers , in subjects where we are liable to a bias from interest or feelings , so , a fallacious perversion of this maxim finds a place in the minds of some persons ; who ...
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... necessary , useful , or or- namental to men ; and I was not without thought of wearing the toga virilis of the Romans , instead of the vulgar and illiberal dress of the moderns . With these excellent notions , I went first to the Hague ...
... necessary , useful , or or- namental to men ; and I was not without thought of wearing the toga virilis of the Romans , instead of the vulgar and illiberal dress of the moderns . With these excellent notions , I went first to the Hague ...
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... necessary allowances for childhood and old age in which so little can be ac- quired beyond the range of the senses , and the refreshments of our bodies and unavoidable avocations , that it much behooves us to improve , the best we can ...
... necessary allowances for childhood and old age in which so little can be ac- quired beyond the range of the senses , and the refreshments of our bodies and unavoidable avocations , that it much behooves us to improve , the best we can ...
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... necessary to them . A mistake is not the less so , and will never grow into a truth , because we have believed it a long time , though perhaps it be the harder to part with : and an error is not the less dan- gerous , nor the less ...
... necessary to them . A mistake is not the less so , and will never grow into a truth , because we have believed it a long time , though perhaps it be the harder to part with : and an error is not the less dan- gerous , nor the less ...
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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...