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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... walk . No better plan could be devised in my 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 ...
... walk . No better plan could be devised in my 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 ...
Page 38
... walk round the school , and see that the monitors do their duty , and put the children's fingers to every letter or word according to what they are learning . In this manner they go on until every child in the school has said one lesson ...
... walk round the school , and see that the monitors do their duty , and put the children's fingers to every letter or word according to what they are learning . In this manner they go on until every child in the school has said one lesson ...
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... walks behind them , so that if any child is inattentive , he is sure of being detected . It is not often that they are ... walk out of the room two and two , and another class succeeds them , who go through the same dicipline as above de ...
... walks behind them , so that if any child is inattentive , he is sure of being detected . It is not often that they are ... walk out of the room two and two , and another class succeeds them , who go through the same dicipline as above de ...
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... walk round , every child say- ing the multiplication table until they have finished it ; they then let go hands , and put them behind , and , for variety sake , sing the pence table , the alphabet , hymns , & c . & c : thus the children ...
... walk round , every child say- ing the multiplication table until they have finished it ; they then let go hands , and put them behind , and , for variety sake , sing the pence table , the alphabet , hymns , & c . & c : thus the children ...
Page 63
... walk , and on which the corn , trees , and flowers grow . Q. What is it that makes them grow ? A. The heat and light of the sun . Q. Does it require any thing else to make them grow ? A. Yes , rain ; and the assistance of Al- mighty God ...
... walk , and on which the corn , trees , and flowers grow . Q. What is it that makes them grow ? A. The heat and light of the sun . Q. Does it require any thing else to make them grow ? A. Yes , rain ; and the assistance of Al- mighty God ...
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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?