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D. Appleton, 1838 - Domestic education - 322 pages
 

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Page 290 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was...
Page 289 - Couched, and now filled with pasture gazing sat, Or bedward ruminating: for the sun Declined was hasting now with prone career To the Ocean Isles, and in the ascending scale Of heaven the stars that usher evening rose: When Satan still in gaze, as first he stood, Scarce thus at length failed speech recovered sad.
Page 119 - God, who makes the sun to know His proper hour to rise, And to give light to all below, Doth send him round the skies. When from the chambers of the east His morning race begins, He never tires, nor stops to rest, But round the world he shines.
Page 38 - MIND, it is the rich, and grasping, and excursive human mind (such even in infancy) that is at work on the poor materials of its felicity. This crooked stick, or these pebbles are symbols of many things we adults do not dream of in such a connexion; and they suggest conceptions of things dimly recollected, and now absent, which people the fancy in crowds, and lead it on, until the soul is lost in the chace.
Page 189 - for purposes which it is not very difficult to divine, has allowed an absolute predominance to the conceptive faculty during the season of infancy, and has granted it a principal share in the mental economy during the succeeding years of childhood.
Page 29 - With young men of ingenuous tempers, this consciousness of their sisters' superiority, in points which every day they will be more willing to deem important, may be turned to the best account, under a discreet parental guidance, and may become the means of the most beneficial reaction in their moral sentiments.
Page 41 - ... happy childhood (other / advantages not wanting) is the very best preparation, moral and intellectual, with which to encounter the duties and cares of real life. A sunshine childhood is an auspicious; inheritance, with which, as a fund, to commence trading in, practical wisdom and active goodness. It is a great thing only to have known, by experience, that tranquil, temperate felicity is actually attainable on earth ; and we should! think so if we knew how many have pursued a reckless course,...
Page 212 - ... intellectual ubiquity, by the vigorous effort which realizes remote scenes as analogous to surrounding objects, and yet as unlike them. A child is to be tempted on, until he breaks over his horizon ; he is to be exercised and informed, until he can wing his way, north or south, east or west, and show his teacher, in apt and vivid language, that his imagination has actually taken the leap, and has returned — from the tempestrocked Hebrides, or the ice-bound northern ocean, from the red man's...
Page 242 - Chamonie slept at the mountain's foot ; and, now and then broken by the deep thunder of an avalanche, the profoundest silence reigned. It seemed the vastest, wildest, sternest of nature's prodigies reposing ; now starting as in a fitful dream, then sinking again into the stillest calm. The influence upon my mind of that poetic
Page 286 - The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

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