Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, Volum 2Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818 - 388 pàgines This work presents a series of letters by the author which address education principles. The letters explore the topics of: perception, attention, conception, judgment, imagination & taste abstraction, and reflection. The author's first letter discusses the necessity of obtaining a knowledge of our intellectual faculties, and how this knowledge is acquired. A short analysis of the plan to be pursued is also included. |
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Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, Volum 2 Elizabeth Hamilton Visualització completa - 1818 |
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Pàgina 258 - And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped ? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle...
Pàgina 17 - For that fair female troop thou saws't, that seem'd Of goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
Pàgina 5 - To instruct youth in the languages, and in the sciences, is comparatively of little importance, if we are inattentive to the habits they acquire ; and are not careful in giving, to all their different faculties, and all their different principles of action, a proper degree of employment.
Pàgina 358 - ... if there were nothing valuable in them for the uses of human life, yet the very speculative parts of this sort of learning are well worth our study ; for by perpetual examples they teach us to conceive with clearness, to connect our ideas...
Pàgina 143 - I never heard of such a thing. Yes, says the steward, I remember when I was at my Lady Shrewsbury's, Such a thing as this happen'd, just about the time of gooseberries.
Pàgina 5 - Abstracting entirely from the culture of their moral powers, how extensive and difficult is the business of conducting their intellectual improvement! To watch over the associations which they form in their tender years; to give them early habits of mental activity; to rouse their curiosity, and to direct it to proper objects; to exercise their ingenuity and invention: to cultivate in their minds a turn for speculation, and at the same time preserve their attention alive to the objects around them;...
Pàgina 353 - Except some professed scholars, I have often observed that women in general read much more than men; but, for want of a plan, a method, a fixed object, their reading is of little benefit to themselves or others.
Pàgina 286 - Taste, is, in general, considered as that Faculty of the Human mind, by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is Beautiful or Sublime in the works of Nature or Art.
Pàgina 5 - ... ingenuity and invention ; to cultivate in their minds a turn for speculation, and at the same time preserve their attention alive to the objects around them ; to awaken their sensibilities to the beauties of nature, and to inspire them with a relish "for intellectual enjoyment ; — these form but a part of the business of education ; and yet the execution even of this part requires an acquaintance with the general principles of our nature, which seldom falls to the share of those to whom the...
Pàgina 281 - ... and uninteresting objects, insensible to those finer and more delicate sentiments, and blind to those more enlarged and nobler views which elevate the soul, and make it conscious of its dignity. How different from him whose imagination, like an eagle in her flight, takes a wide prospect, and observes whatever it presents, that is new or beautiful, grand or important ; whose rapid wing varies the scene every moment, carrying him sometimes through the fairy regions of wit and fancy, sometimes through...