The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children ...W. Burgess, Jr., 1827 - Children's stories, English |
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Page vi - Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson that humility can teach.
Page 151 - for when she called you to the chaise-door, she said, 'Here's some half-pence for you.' Now, if she gave you the guinea, she must have given it to you by mistake.
Page 151 - I'll buy the blanket tomorrow. I'm going to Dunstable with her spinning.' ' And you'll bring the blanket to me, and I shall make the bed very neatly, that will be all right — all happy !' said Anne, clapping her hands. ' But stay ! Hush ! don't clap your hands so, Anne ; it will not be all happy, I'm afraid,' said Paul, and his countenance, changed, and he looked very grave.
Page v - All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of children.
Page 153 - ... were carrying in luggage ; the postillions were rubbing down their horses, or rolling the chaises into the coach-house. ' What now ? What business have you here, pray ?' said a waiter, who almost ran over Paul, as he was crossing the yard in a great hurry to get some empty bottles, from the bottle-rack. ' You've no business here, crowding up the yard; walk off, young gentleman, if you please.'
Page xi - The florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions ; for love and hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul, by...
Page 150 - Anne looked very grave, and her brother explained to her that, with a guinea, she might buy two hundred and fifty-two times as many plums as she could get for a penny. ' Why, Paul, you know the fruit-woman said she would give us a dozen plums for a penny. Now, for this little guinea, would she give us two hundred and fifty-two dozen ? ' ' If she has so many, and if we like to have so many, to be sure she will,' said Paul, ' but I think we should not like to have two hundred and fifty-two dozen of...
Page 157 - The servant, confounded and half intoxicated, could only stammer out that he had more guineas than one about him, and that he really did not know which it was. He pulled his money out, and spread it upon the table with trembling hands— the marked guinea appeared— his master instantly turned him out of his service with strong...
Page v - Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid, Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed.
Page 149 - Anne, who was of a very obliging temper, and who liked to do what she was asked to do, went hack to the place where the scotcher lay ; and scarcely had she reached the spot, when she heard the noise of a carriage. She ran to call her brother; and, to their great joy, they now saw four chaises coming towards them. Paul, as soon as they went up the hill, followed with his scotcher; first he scotched the wheels of one carriage, then of another ; and Anne was so much...