The Parents' Friend; Or Extracts from the Principal Works on Education, from the Time of Montaigne to the Present Day, Methodized and Arranged, Volum 2J. Johnson, 1803 |
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Pàgina 35
... gentleman at home in his father's sight under a good governor , as much the best and safest way to the great and main end of education , when it can be had , and is ordered as it should be . But what shall be resolved in this case must ...
... gentleman at home in his father's sight under a good governor , as much the best and safest way to the great and main end of education , when it can be had , and is ordered as it should be . But what shall be resolved in this case must ...
Pàgina 46
... gentlemen of for- tune , whose sons are nearly of an equal age and equally free from any vice , and who are all provided with separate private tutors , contrive to bring them often together , so as to perform certain exercises in common ...
... gentlemen of for- tune , whose sons are nearly of an equal age and equally free from any vice , and who are all provided with separate private tutors , contrive to bring them often together , so as to perform certain exercises in common ...
Pàgina 54
... gentleman , stifle in their birth the virtues of a man . Thus brought into company when they ought to be seriously employed , and treated like men when they are still boys , they become vain and effeminate . The only way to avoid these ...
... gentleman , stifle in their birth the virtues of a man . Thus brought into company when they ought to be seriously employed , and treated like men when they are still boys , they become vain and effeminate . The only way to avoid these ...
Pàgina 116
... gentleman's education , many years of childhood and youth must be devoted to their attainment . During these studies the general cultivation of the understand- ing is in some degree retarded . All the intellectual 116 On the Duties of ...
... gentleman's education , many years of childhood and youth must be devoted to their attainment . During these studies the general cultivation of the understand- ing is in some degree retarded . All the intellectual 116 On the Duties of ...
Pàgina 132
... gentleman has not been instructed in all the subtilties of logic , you will ask what will become of him if he be attacked with the sophistic subtilty of some syllogism ? viz . " a Westphalia " ham makes a man drink ; drink quenches ...
... gentleman has not been instructed in all the subtilties of logic , you will ask what will become of him if he be attacked with the sophistic subtilty of some syllogism ? viz . " a Westphalia " ham makes a man drink ; drink quenches ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 326 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Pàgina 132 - ... thereof in some chosen short book lessoned thoroughly to them, they might then forthwith proceed to learn the substance of good things, and arts in due order, which would bring the whole language quickly into their power.
Pàgina 138 - Can there be any thing more ridiculous, than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade...
Pàgina 134 - For their studies : first, they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used or any better ; and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.
Pàgina 132 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Pàgina 133 - ... having but newly left those grammatic flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction, and now on the sudden transported under another climate, to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning, mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge...
Pàgina 132 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Pàgina 326 - I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much then, after two or three years that they have well laid their grounds, but to ride out in companies with prudent and staid guides...
Pàgina 139 - Fables, and writing the English translation (made as literal as it can be) in one line, and the Latin words which answer each of them, just over it in another.
Pàgina 257 - And in natural philosophy they may proceed leisurely from \ the history of meteors, minerals, plants, and living creatures, as far as anatomy.