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Æsop Alcinous beautiful Bible brothers Cain character charity child commands conduct conscience duties which relate duty of acquiring Education elements ethical evil eyes FABIAN WARE fable fact fairy fairy tales falsehood father feeling FELIX ADLER fellow-men FRIEDRICH FROEBEL Froebel's give golden grammar course H. W. BROWN hand heart HELENE LANGE Homer human idea ideal Iliad illustrate instance intellectual JAMES JOHONNOT Jātaka JOHANN FRIEDRICH HERBART JOSEPH BALDWIN justice kind labor literature lives manual training Märchen matter means mental mind moral habits moral instruction moral teaching mother motives nature obedience Odyssey parents Penelope person poem primary course principles Psychology Public Schools pupils religious respect reverence rule says sense sisters Snow-white and Rose-red speak spirit story suitors teacher Telemachus thou tion Translated by H. W. true truth Ulysses University of Königsberg virtues whole wolf words wrong young
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Page 208 - Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good ; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth...
Page 124 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 118 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother : but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him. and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Page 74 - The peculiar value of the fables is that they are instantaneous photographs which reproduce, as it were, in a single flash of light, some one aspect of human nature, and which, excluding everything else, permit the attention to be entirely fixed on that one.
Page 134 - Beside a pillar of that noble roof, And looking on Ulysses as he passed, Admired, and said to him in winged words : — " Stranger, farewell, and in thy native land Remember thou hast owed thy life to me.
Page 228 - It is true, there are influences in manual training, as it has been described, which are favorable to a virtuous disposition. Squareness in things is not without relation to squareness in action and in thinking. A child that has learned to be exact — that is, truthful in his work — will be inclined to be scrupulous and truthful in his speech, in his thought, and in his acts.
Page 48 - Co. stories embody the tradition of the childhood of mankind. They have on this account an authority all their own, not, indeed, that of literal truth, but one derived from their being types of certain feelings and longings which belong to childhood as such. The child, as it listens to the Marchen, looks up with wide-opened eyes to the face of the person who tells the story, and thrills responsive as the touch of the earlier life of the race thus falls upon its own. Such an effect, of course, cannot...