English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher in English LiteratureBrown & Gross, 1876 - 482 pages |
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... memory ; and this is probably substantially true ; but yet the etymology of education is not , directly at least , educere , but educare . Again , education has been distinguished from information ; which may well be done , as the word ...
... memory ; and this is probably substantially true ; but yet the etymology of education is not , directly at least , educere , but educare . Again , education has been distinguished from information ; which may well be done , as the word ...
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... memory should singly put to rout the vulgar prejudice against female erudition . At the end of two years , however , upon a disgust he felt at the conduct of some of the princes's attendants , he suddenly threw up his appointment , and ...
... memory should singly put to rout the vulgar prejudice against female erudition . At the end of two years , however , upon a disgust he felt at the conduct of some of the princes's attendants , he suddenly threw up his appointment , and ...
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... memory and because also it was the last talk I had , and the last time that I ever saw that noble and worthy lady . " The interview , simple in incident as it was , has assumed the dignity of a piece of history , and its illustration ...
... memory and because also it was the last talk I had , and the last time that I ever saw that noble and worthy lady . " The interview , simple in incident as it was , has assumed the dignity of a piece of history , and its illustration ...
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... memory , I have reduced them into ten precepts ; and , next unto Moses ' Tables , if thou imprint them in thy mind , thou shalt reap the benefit , and I the content . And they are these following : - 1. When it shall please God to bring ...
... memory , I have reduced them into ten precepts ; and , next unto Moses ' Tables , if thou imprint them in thy mind , thou shalt reap the benefit , and I the content . And they are these following : - 1. When it shall please God to bring ...
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... memory well preserved by use , and much increased by order , as our scholar must learn another day in the University . But in a child a good memory is well known by three properties ; that is , if it be quick in receiving , sure in ...
... memory well preserved by use , and much increased by order , as our scholar must learn another day in the University . But in a child a good memory is well known by three properties ; that is , if it be quick in receiving , sure in ...
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Page 104 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 14 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 432 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!
Page 109 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, 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.
Page 428 - Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 65 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...
Page 187 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 104 - ... 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 15 - A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two has little more to wish for, and he that wants either of them will be but little the better for anything else.
Page 405 - A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face.