Twigs for nests, or Notes on nursery nurture. By the author of 'The expositions of the cartoons of Raphael'. |
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... better . We anticipate , at the very outset , what will be said . We fully admit that " there is a great difference in children . " But a protest may be made very fairly against the common custom of avoiding the discussion of the ...
... better . We anticipate , at the very outset , what will be said . We fully admit that " there is a great difference in children . " But a protest may be made very fairly against the common custom of avoiding the discussion of the ...
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... better training there would be more " good babies ; " and if the babies were better , there would , we believe , be more good people . Let us turn again to our new - born babe , and see what can be done . Except it be sickly , if we ...
... better training there would be more " good babies ; " and if the babies were better , there would , we believe , be more good people . Let us turn again to our new - born babe , and see what can be done . Except it be sickly , if we ...
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... better than sheep or goats , That nourish a blind life without the brain ? If , knowing God , they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend ? For so the whole world round is every way Bound by gold ...
... better than sheep or goats , That nourish a blind life without the brain ? If , knowing God , they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend ? For so the whole world round is every way Bound by gold ...
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Richard Henry Smith. rule , to be better and happier there than they are anywhere else . Children are , however , like ourselves . They are creatures of circumstances . They have like feelings and passions with us . We cannot afford to ...
Richard Henry Smith. rule , to be better and happier there than they are anywhere else . Children are , however , like ourselves . They are creatures of circumstances . They have like feelings and passions with us . We cannot afford to ...
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... , and the strictest adherence to a settled system . The place for children is the nursery , and if it be , as we imagine it should be , the best room in the house , they will be found , as a C rule , to be better and happier there than ...
... , and the strictest adherence to a settled system . The place for children is the nursery , and if it be , as we imagine it should be , the best room in the house , they will be found , as a C rule , to be better and happier there than ...
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Page 144 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 53 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 15 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 33 - Women know The way to rear up children (to be just) ; They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words ; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles...
Page 142 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts : for the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 120 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 130 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 143 - But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him; and his righteousness unto children's children ; to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Page 142 - Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man.? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Page 15 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.