| Fashion - 738 pages
...by any one who knows the world.— Charles Lever. \VHEK DOEA EDUCATION COMMENCE? — Education does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or his sigh of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1847 - 592 pages
...to him. The following extract is from one of the public journals of the day : -.ii "Education does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's...of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance; with hands full of flowers in green fields, or hills... | |
| 1844 - 778 pages
...maturer years, smile at this statement of the early sentiments of the Queen Victoria, education does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's look — with a father's nod of approbation, or a sigh of reproof — with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1844 - 610 pages
...world,' are 'governed too much.' Education, says one, whose remark is recorded in our note-book, does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's look ; with a lather's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or... | |
| 1848 - 660 pages
...writer in Prater's Magazine, " does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's took — with a father's nod of approbation, or sign of reproof—...brother's noble act of forbearance — with handful s of flowers in green daisy meadows — with bird's nests admired but not touched — with creeping... | |
| 1847 - 396 pages
...busily employed at their books and their needles. We hardly sufficiently remember, that " Education does not commence with the alphabet : it begins with a...mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof ; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance... | |
| American literature - 1847 - 440 pages
...did not exert a moulding power upon the soul. It is truly and eloquently said, that education does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's look — with a lather's nod of approbation, or sigh of reproof— with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Kings and rulers - 1848 - 326 pages
...in maturer years, smile at this statement of the early sentiments of Queen Victoria. Education does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sigh of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance;... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1854 - 348 pages
...EDUCATION. Education does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with the mother's looks — with the father's nod of approbation or sign of reproof — with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance — with handfuls of flowers in green and daisy meadow... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...fossil animal, the iguanodon. But more of this again. WHEN DOES EDUCATION COMMENCE! — Education does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's look. with a father's nod of approbation, or hii sigh of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brotherfs noble act of forbearance... | |
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