A Sketch of My Friend's Family: Intended to Suggest Some Practical Hints on Religion and Domestic Mannersauthor; Vernon, Hood, and Sharpe; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 - 134 páginas |
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... appear quite de- lighted with his occupation : Nature dictates activity : a child runs or plays about from morning till night , without being told that exercise is good for the health . We shall scarcely ever find one languid and ...
... appear quite de- lighted with his occupation : Nature dictates activity : a child runs or plays about from morning till night , without being told that exercise is good for the health . We shall scarcely ever find one languid and ...
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... appears to think that a fondness for orna- ments makes a girl fond of dolls : he says afterwards , " in due time the doll is laid aside , and the young woman's own person becomes the object of her attention . " I may be laughed at for ...
... appears to think that a fondness for orna- ments makes a girl fond of dolls : he says afterwards , " in due time the doll is laid aside , and the young woman's own person becomes the object of her attention . " I may be laughed at for ...
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... appears to me a good method for teaching children their letters , to have an alphabet , with the picture to each of them , of some thing or animal , of which the ini tial forms the letter : by association the child will more readily ...
... appears to me a good method for teaching children their letters , to have an alphabet , with the picture to each of them , of some thing or animal , of which the ini tial forms the letter : by association the child will more readily ...
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... instructive and interesting lessons to children , once filled the station of a servant . A fault nearly akin to pride , and which early appears in children , is vanity ; but for this too , their teachers are generally to blame 43.
... instructive and interesting lessons to children , once filled the station of a servant . A fault nearly akin to pride , and which early appears in children , is vanity ; but for this too , their teachers are generally to blame 43.
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... appears to me , indeed , that it is the chief delight of a virtuous husband and wife , to watch and direct the progress of their children ; but the aid of servants in lesser matters is absolutely requisite , and * may be made of high ...
... appears to me , indeed , that it is the chief delight of a virtuous husband and wife , to watch and direct the progress of their children ; but the aid of servants in lesser matters is absolutely requisite , and * may be made of high ...
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Página 135 - And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him ; and he kissed them, and embraced them. And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face : and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Página 74 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Página 121 - Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near i — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Página 39 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Página 72 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by One who had himself Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live.
Página 95 - ... meanest things that are— As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in His sovereign wisdom made them all.
Página 133 - Heaven : these are the matchless joys of virtuous love; and thus their moments fly. The Seasons thus, as ceaseless round a jarring world they roll, still find them happy...
Página 19 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.
Página 164 - ... sensible manner, that mighty power which prevails throughout, acting with a force and efficacy that appears to suffer no diminution from the greatest distances of space or intervals of time; and that wisdom which we see equally displayed in the exquisite structure and just motions of the greatest and subtilest parts. These, with perfect goodness, by which they are evidently directed, constitute the supreme object of the speculations of a philosopher; who, while he contemplates and admires so...