 The object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures, — habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy, — occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2861810Full view - About this book
 | Enos Bronson - 1810 - 462 pages
...give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will meliorate, not destroy; occupations that will render sickness...solitude pleasant, age Venerable, life more dignified useful, and therefore death less tei4rible: and the compensation which is offered for the omission... | |
 | William Marrat, Pishey Thompson - 1812 - 488 pages
...object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures, — habits that will ameliorate, not destroy, — occupations that...of all this, is a short-lived blaze, — a little tem~ porary effect, which has no other consequence than to deprive the remainder of life of all taste... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1824 - 424 pages
...children by such kind of education. The object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures ; habits that time will ameliorate,...dignified and useful, and therefore death less terrible. But the greatest error is, the making these things the grand and universal object. To insist upon it... | |
 | Allison Wrifford - 1831 - 198 pages
...will endure as long as life endures,—habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy,—occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant,...offered for the omission of all this, is a short-lived blaze,—a little temporary effect, which has no other consequence than to deprive the remainder of... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures, — habits that lime will ameliorate, not destroy, —occupations that...and useful, and therefore death less terrible: and Ihe compensation which is offered for the omission of all this, is a short-lived blaze, — a little... | |
 | Louis-Aimé Martin - 1842 - 598 pages
...children by such kind of education. The object is to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures ; habits that time will ameliorate,...terrible ; and the compensation which is offered for all this is a short-lived blaze, a little temporary effect, which has no other consequence than to... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...children by such kind of education. The object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures, — habits that time will ameliorate,...terrible : and the compensation which is offered for the ommission of all this, is a short-lived blaze, — a little temporary effect, which has no other consequence... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...children by such kind of education. The object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures, — habits that time will ameliorate,...death less terrible : and the compensation which is otl'ered for the ommission of all this, is a short-lived blaze, — л little temporary effect, which... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...children by such kind of education. The object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures, — habits that time will ameliorate,...terrible : and the compensation which is offered for the ommission of all this, is a short-lived blaze, — a little temporary effect, which has no other consequence... | |
 | 1846 - 404 pages
...been well said, that " The true object of education, is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures, — habits that time will ameliorate,...and useful, and, therefore, death less terrible."* * * In our small schools, which arc composed, for the most part, of young children, we think that well... | |
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