The Importance of Educating the Infant Poor from the Age of Eighteen Months to Seven Years. Containing an Account of the Spitalfields Infant School, and of the New System of Instruction There Adopted. ... Second Edition, with Considerable AdditionsW. Simpkin & R. Marshall, Goyder, printer, 1824 - 2 pages |
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... opinion , and thereby conceives he knows much , and we shall find him a very stubborn pupil . How- ever erroneous such opinion may be , he will defend it with all his might . Nay , I was told by an old thief , that he had as much right ...
... opinion , and thereby conceives he knows much , and we shall find him a very stubborn pupil . How- ever erroneous such opinion may be , he will defend it with all his might . Nay , I was told by an old thief , that he had as much right ...
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... opinion , for the improvement and comfort of slaves in the West Indies , and other of his Majesty's colonies , than by es- tablishing infant schools for the instruction of their children . They might be taught to speak as we do in this ...
... opinion , for the improvement and comfort of slaves in the West Indies , and other of his Majesty's colonies , than by es- tablishing infant schools for the instruction of their children . They might be taught to speak as we do in this ...
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... opinion by the conversation I had with Mr. Arrowsmith , brother to the artist of that name . He says , that deaf and dumb children will learn quicker with other chil- dren that can hear , than they would with children like themselves ...
... opinion by the conversation I had with Mr. Arrowsmith , brother to the artist of that name . He says , that deaf and dumb children will learn quicker with other chil- dren that can hear , than they would with children like themselves ...
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... opinion , can be taken to stupify them than such a mode ; for little children are naturally lively , and if they are not suf fered to move , but kept constantly in one po- sition , they not only become disgusted with their lessons , but ...
... opinion , can be taken to stupify them than such a mode ; for little children are naturally lively , and if they are not suf fered to move , but kept constantly in one po- sition , they not only become disgusted with their lessons , but ...
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... opinion that when children are absent , it is frequently the fault of their parents . I have had children come to school without their breakfast , because it has not been ready ; others have come to school without shoes , because they ...
... opinion that when children are absent , it is frequently the fault of their parents . I have had children come to school without their breakfast , because it has not been ready ; others have come to school without shoes , because they ...
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Page 61 - For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright ; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Page 66 - JESUS answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day ? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 201 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 147 - The rod and reproof give wisdom : but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Page 155 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 146 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 67 - And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Page 60 - And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren : and they hated him yet the more.
Page 62 - And he told it to his father, and to his brethren : and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed ? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth ? And his brethren envied him ; but his father observed the saying.
Page 67 - And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?