The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for ChildrenHarper & Brothers, 1844 - 455 páginas |
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Página 7 - Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years than other children, what use can be made of it? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid.
Página 8 - Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson that humility can teach.
Página 297 - ... that will be much better than plums. Do let us buy a blanket for her. How glad she will be to see it ! I will make her bed with the new blanket, and then bring her to look at it ! But, Paul, how shall we buy a blanket ? Where are blankets to be got ?" " Leave that to me ; I'll manage that. I know where blankets can be got ; I saw one hanging out of a shop the day I went last to Dunstable.
Página 321 - Juncus conglomerate, or common soft rush, which is to be found in most moist pastures, by the sides of streams, and under hedges. These rushes are in best condition in the height of summer ; but may be gathered, so as to serve the purpose well, quite on to autumn. It would be needless to add that the largest and longest are best.
Página 112 - a lease for the life of Peter Price, Susanna his wife, and to the survivor or survivors of them, or for the full time and term of twenty years, to be computed from the first day of May then next ensuing. Now, sir, this, you see, is a lease in reversion, which the late Sir Benjamin Somers had not, by his settlement, a right to make. This is a curious mistake, you see, Sir Arthur ; and in filling up those printed leases there's always a good chance of some flaw. I find it perpetually ; but I never...
Página 299 - Paul, when he came to the shop where he had seen the blanket, stopped for a moment and said, 'It is a great pity, Anne, that the guinea is not ours. However, we are doing what is honest, and that is a comfort. Here, we must go through this gateway, into the inn-yard ; we are come to the " Dun Cow." ' ' Cow ! ' said Anne,
Página 11 - The florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions ; for love and hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul, by...
Página 7 - All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of children.
Página 294 - Paul and his sister had risen at five o'clock, that they might be sure to be ready for early travellers. Paul kept his scotcher poised upon his shoulder, and watched eagerly at his station at the bottom of the hill. He did not wait long before a carriage came. He followed it up the hill ; and the instant the postillion called to him, and bid him stop the wheels, he put his scotcher behind them, and found that it answered the purpose perfectly well. Many carriages went by this day, and Paul and Anne...
Página 8 - Could we obtain a distinct and full history of all that hath passed in the mind of a child, from the beginning of life and sensation, till it grows up to the use of reason ; how its infant faculties began to work, and how they brought forth and ripened all the various notions, opinions, and sentiments, which we find in ourselves when we come to be capable of reflection ; this would be a treasure of natural history, which would probably give more light into the human faculties than all the systems...