Popular Education; for the Use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both SexesHarper & brothers, 1850 - 475 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 317 - HUMAN HAPPINESS. What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To rust in us unused.—SHAKSPEARE.
الصفحة 317 - Sure He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To rust in us unused.—SHAKSPEARE. All the happiness of man is derived from discovering, applying, or obeying the laws of his Creator; and all his misery is the result
الصفحة 286 - state, unless such child shall have attended some public or private day school where instruction is given by a teacher qualified to instruct in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, and arithmetic, at least three months of the twelve months next preceding any and every year in which such child shall be so employed.
الصفحة 458 - A parent who sends his son into the world uneducated, and without skill in any art or science, does a great injury to mankind as well as to his own family, for he defrauds the community of a useful citizen, and bequeaths to it a nuisance." How true is it that "the mobs, the riots, the
الصفحة 152 - her bodily health seemed restored; but what a situation was hers! The darkness and silence of the tomb were around her. No mother's smile called forth her answering smile. No father's voice taught her to imitate his sounds. To her, brothers and sisters were but forms of matter which resisted her touch, but which
الصفحة 155 - key, &c. They were then mixed up, and a sign was made for her to arrange them herself, so as to express the words book, key, etc., and she did so. The process of instruction, hitherto, had been mechanical, and the success attending it about as great as
الصفحة 153 - to see her. He found her with a well-formed figure, a strongly-marked nervous-sanguine temperament, a large and beautifully shaped head, and the whole system in healthy action. Here seemed a rare opportunity of trying a plan for the education of a deaf and blind person, which
الصفحة 153 - be maimed or mutilated ; and, though most of its avenues of communication with the world were cut off, it began to manifest itself through the others. As soon as she could walk, she began to explore the room, and then the house. She
الصفحة 327 - of meaning to such a one are the words of the Psalmist, The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork. One more illustration must suffice. All fluids, except water, contract in volume as they become colder