Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, Volumen2Cottom & Stewart, 1803 - 452 páginas |
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Página 34 - What perception is, every one will know better by reflecting on what he does himself, when he sees, hears, feels, &c. or thinks, than by any discourse of mine. Whoever reflects on what passes in his own mind, cannot miss it; and if he does not reflect, all the words in the world cannot make him have any notion of it.
Página 4 - Not only the actions, but even the opinions of men may sometimes give light into the frame of the human mind. The opinions of men may be considered as the effects of their intellectual powers, as their actions are the effects of their active principles. Even the prejudices and errors of mankind, when they are general, must have some cause no less general ; the discovery of which will throw some light upon the frame of the human understanding.
Página 8 - ... invention ; to cultivate in their minds a turn for speculation, and at the same time preserve their attention alive to the objects around them ; to awaken their sensibilities to the beauties of nature, and to inspire them with a relish "for intellectual enjoyment ; — these form but a part of the business of education ; and yet the execution even of this part requires an acquaintance with the general principles of our nature, which seldom falls to the share of those to whom the instruction of...
Página 7 - To instruct youth in the languages and in the sciences is comparatively of little importance, if we are inattentive to the habits they acquire, and are not careful in giving to all their different faculties, and all their different principles of action, a proper degree of employment.
Página 47 - It is likewife unfortunately in the power of a foolHh nurfe to retard the natural progrefs of the mind, by perpetually interrupting its attention. A child that is much danced about, and much talked to, by a very lively nurfe, has many more ideas than one that is kept by a filent and indolent perfon.
Página 8 - ... and to direct it to proper objects, to exercise their ingenuity and invention, to cultivate in their minds a turn for speculation, and at the same time preserve their attention alive to the objects around them, to awaken their...
Página 148 - Ideas that are really preferv'd there ready at hand when need and Occafion calls for them, were almoft as good be without them quite, fince they ferve him to little purpofe. The dull Man, who lofes the Opportunity whilft he is feeking in his Mind for thofe Ideas that fliould ferve his turn, is not much more happy in his Knowledg than one that is perfectly ignorant.
Página 190 - Before the drooping flock told forth her knell ; The folemn death-watch click'd the hour fhe dy'd, And fhrilling crickets in the chimney cry'd ; The boding raven on her cottage fate, And with hoarfe croaking warn'd us of her fate ; The lambkin, which her wonted tendance bred, Drop'd on the plains that fatal inftant dead ; 106 Swarm'd on a rotten flick the bees I fpy'd, Which erft I faw when goody Dobfon dy'd.
Página 184 - ... terms come to be familiarly recollected. I have known feveral perfons, who have been by this difficulty deterred from the purfuit of bota'ny, chemiftry, and other fciences, for the acquirement of which they felt the moft ardent inclination. Had the technical terms belonging to thofe fciences been committed to memory, at that period...
Página 315 - The qualities that produce these emotions, are to be found in almost every class of the objects of human knowledge, and the emotions themselves afford one of the most extensive sources of human delight. They occur to us, amid every variety of EXTERNAL scenery, and among many diversities of disposition and affection in the MIND of man. The...