Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, Volume 1I. Peirce, 1813 |
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... Consequences of early impres- sions of terror . - Nature of timidity investigated.- Fear of death , the consequences of early association . LETTER IV . - Page 53 . ASSOCIATIONS OF AVERSION CONTINUED . Danger of early inspired ...
... Consequences of early impres- sions of terror . - Nature of timidity investigated.- Fear of death , the consequences of early association . LETTER IV . - Page 53 . ASSOCIATIONS OF AVERSION CONTINUED . Danger of early inspired ...
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Elizabeth Hamilton. LETTER V. - Page 72 . AGREEABLE ASSOCIATIONS . Religion . Consequences of affixing gloomy associations with the performance of religious duty - Advantages resulting from impressions of an opposite tendency . LETTER VI ...
Elizabeth Hamilton. LETTER V. - Page 72 . AGREEABLE ASSOCIATIONS . Religion . Consequences of affixing gloomy associations with the performance of religious duty - Advantages resulting from impressions of an opposite tendency . LETTER VI ...
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... consequence in every branch of science . The agricultural improver , who , on the northern side of the Grampian Hills , should implicitly adopt the plan of husbandry laid down by the Devonshire farmer , would have but sorry crops . In ...
... consequence in every branch of science . The agricultural improver , who , on the northern side of the Grampian Hills , should implicitly adopt the plan of husbandry laid down by the Devonshire farmer , would have but sorry crops . In ...
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... consequences un- seen and unexpected . Every discovery I made , tended to increase diffi- dence in my own abilities ; which I became truly sensible were inadequate to the due performance of a task so arduous . With this consciousness ...
... consequences un- seen and unexpected . Every discovery I made , tended to increase diffi- dence in my own abilities ; which I became truly sensible were inadequate to the due performance of a task so arduous . With this consciousness ...
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... consequence so natural . That it is not only natural , but inevitable , a little reflection will evince . For though to train them to vice made no part of our design - so far from it , that we , perhaps , can call many a weary hour to ...
... consequence so natural . That it is not only natural , but inevitable , a little reflection will evince . For though to train them to vice made no part of our design - so far from it , that we , perhaps , can call many a weary hour to ...
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Page 137 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 9 - The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: And it requires art and pains to set it at a distance, and make it its own object.
Page 254 - ... the appellation of benevolence,) these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarse morsel with a double relish.
Page 15 - When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice ; and I nm persuaded that in thee also.
Page 21 - Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye...
Page 161 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Page 253 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden...
Page 181 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is plac'd in this: that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, tho' the appetite lean the other way.
Page 248 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...
Page 198 - When a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers: he speaketh things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him : the poor man slipped, and yet they rebuked him too; he spake wisely, and could have no place.