Hints to Parents ...: No. I[-VI], Issues 1-6Harvey and Darton, 1825 - Education |
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... given with small wooden cubes , oblongs , narrow slips of wood of different lengths , cones , squares , pyramids , or other figures . The Mother points out and denominates every thing respecting their form , superficies , angles ; their ...
... given with small wooden cubes , oblongs , narrow slips of wood of different lengths , cones , squares , pyramids , or other figures . The Mother points out and denominates every thing respecting their form , superficies , angles ; their ...
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... given standard . Much will depend on a gradual practice , and on the precaution of not hurrying from one exercise to another , but dwelling on each until it is perfectly mastered . As soon as the pupil is capable of managing a pencil ...
... given standard . Much will depend on a gradual practice , and on the precaution of not hurrying from one exercise to another , but dwelling on each until it is perfectly mastered . As soon as the pupil is capable of managing a pencil ...
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... given ; in regard to which a few short observations may be useful . 1st . These exercises are intended as á preparatory step to Arithmetic , making the pupil distinctly conscious of what he is doing when calculating . The power of ...
... given ; in regard to which a few short observations may be useful . 1st . These exercises are intended as á preparatory step to Arithmetic , making the pupil distinctly conscious of what he is doing when calculating . The power of ...
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... given to children whose thinking powers have been developed and strengthened to a certain degree ; for in- stance , the Mother lets them read a short but interesting moral tale , and dictates the same to them some days after , omitting ...
... given to children whose thinking powers have been developed and strengthened to a certain degree ; for in- stance , the Mother lets them read a short but interesting moral tale , and dictates the same to them some days after , omitting ...
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... given him in my former lesson . What is the next step you would take ? I would name the essential properties , as form , colour , weight , and let him exercise as many of his senses upon the object as possible . When you had ...
... given him in my former lesson . What is the next step you would take ? I would name the essential properties , as form , colour , weight , and let him exercise as many of his senses upon the object as possible . When you had ...
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Adam and Eve angles animals attention bestowed bird blessing body boy reads called Children repeat Christian circle concave concave angles convex angles created creatures cultivation curve lines dear child desire duty earth endeavour equal magnitude evil exer exercises express faculties faithful Father feel figures give Granville Sharp hand happy hear heart heaven improvement infant instruction Kaimes kind knowledge labour lesson Lord manner ment Mères mind moral Moth mother draws nature ness number of cubes obedient object oblongs obtuse angles once pair parallel curve parallel lines Parents pentagons Pestalozzi pleasure plural number praise Psalm pupils question racter remain scalene triangles schools sentences shillings sides slate sleep slept soul spirit straight line taken tell tences Thee thing thou tion tree triangle twice uncon unequal wish word
Popular passages
Page 52 - From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Page 95 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble ; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Page 31 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 60 - It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 48 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 96 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it : and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 79 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Page 91 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 34 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 52 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.