The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of Ascham, Milton, Locke, and Butler; from the Quarterly Journal of Education; and from Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, Bind 1C. Knight, 1836 |
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... Natural Philosophy . By A. De 161 186 Morgan • · 214 Page On Natural History as a Branch of Common Edu-
... Natural Philosophy . By A. De 161 186 Morgan • · 214 Page On Natural History as a Branch of Common Edu-
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... Natural History as a Branch of Common Edu- cation . By Clement Durgin 235 Observations on the Study of the Latin and Greek Languages . By G. Long 267 On the Study of the Italian Language and Literature . By A. Viensseux 324 On Teaching ...
... Natural History as a Branch of Common Edu- cation . By Clement Durgin 235 Observations on the Study of the Latin and Greek Languages . By G. Long 267 On the Study of the Italian Language and Literature . By A. Viensseux 324 On Teaching ...
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... natural and sacred history , biography , and botany , en- tirely from the use of pictures . " If we consider how largely pictures contribute at the present day to give impressions to children , and to com- municate either knowledge or ...
... natural and sacred history , biography , and botany , en- tirely from the use of pictures . " If we consider how largely pictures contribute at the present day to give impressions to children , and to com- municate either knowledge or ...
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... history , views of places associated with historical events , likenesses of distinguished persons ; representations ... natural features as those of the moun- tain - regions of Syria . The value , however , of such illustrations depends ...
... history , views of places associated with historical events , likenesses of distinguished persons ; representations ... natural features as those of the moun- tain - regions of Syria . The value , however , of such illustrations depends ...
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... course is followed in natural history , where a collection of animals , having the same characters , is called by the general name of the most common amongst them . Hence , when the pupil refers a phenomenon to the same class as that of ...
... course is followed in natural history , where a collection of animals , having the same characters , is called by the general name of the most common amongst them . Hence , when the pupil refers a phenomenon to the same class as that of ...
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Side 96 - This is useful in fortification ; ' ' you cannot play at billiards without this.' ' You only look through a telescope like a Hottentot until this proposition is read,' with many such powerful strokes of rhetoric to the same purpose. And upon such terms, and with such inducements, who would not be a mathematician? Who would go to work with all that apparatus which I have described as necessary for understanding Euclid, when he has only to take a pleasant walk with Clairaut upon the flowery banks of...
Side 149 - A person has two horses, and a saddle worth £50 ; now, if the saddle be put on the back of the first horse, it will make his value double that of the second ; but if it be put on the back of the second, it will make his value triple that of the first ; what is the value of each horse ? Ans.
Side 246 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Side 258 - Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Side 127 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Side 252 - ... interest in after life : he who loves a flower in youth will love it when he is old. The taste for nature must be planted early in life, to enable its possessor to enjoy a ripened harvest. Every thing which the Deity has created is worthy of our attention. " Nature has nothing made so base, but can Read some instruction to the wisest man.
Side 127 - To prove that the exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the two interior opposite angles (see fig.
Side 232 - When we have amassed a great store of such general facts, they become the objects of another and higher species of classification, and are themselves included in laws which, as they dispose of groups, not individuals, have a far superior degree of generality, till at length, by continuing the process, we arrive at axioms of the highest degree of generality of which science is capable. This process is what we mean by induction.
Side 292 - Tuscan poets of the same age. But Tuscany had this advantage over the rest, that its familiar spoken language was more generally polished, so as to resemble the poetical and select language of the other Italians, and the Tuscan poets had the benefit of writing in a living dialect, ' lingua volgare,' and their poems were understood by the generality of their country-1 men.
Side 53 - ... deserve to succeed. Irritated or wearied by this failure, little manifestations of temper often take the place of the gentle tone with which the lesson commenced, by which the child, whose perception of such a change is very acute, is thoroughly cowed and discouraged, and left to believe that the fault was his own, when it really was that of his instructor.