Practical Education, Volum 2

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Pàgina 17 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood.
Pàgina 179 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Pàgina 186 - The village matron, round the blazing hearth, Suspends the infant audience with her tales, Breathing astonishment! of witching rhymes, And evil spirits; of the death-bed call Of him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd...
Pàgina 125 - Few have been taught to any purpose, who have not been their own teachers. We prefer those instructions which we have given ourselves, from our affection to the instructor; and they are...
Pàgina 194 - On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of Chance below ; And, now and then, a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Pàgina 192 - Are we not here now, — and gone in a moment?" — There was nothing in the sentence ; — 'twas one of your self-evident truths we have the advantage of hearing every day ; and if Trim had not trusted more to his hat than his head, — he had made nothing at all of it " Are we not here now," continued the Corporal, " and are we not" dropping his hat plump upon the ground, — and pausing, before he pronounced the word) —
Pàgina 153 - Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars: 1. Giving light. 2. Colour of the light. 3. Crooked direction. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or Noise in exploding. 7. Subsisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals. 11. Firing inflammable substances. 12.
Pàgina 148 - For rising merit will buoy up at last. Might he return, and bless once more our eyes, New...
Pàgina 232 - Do you think it a proof that your scales are bad, because they vibrate with every additional weight that is added to either side...
Pàgina 258 - Economy is an essential domestic virtue. Some women have a foolish love of expensive baubles ; a taste, which a very little care, probably, in their early education, might have prevented. We are told that when a collection of three hundred and fifty pounds was made for the celebrated Cuzzona to save her from absolute want, she immediately laid out two hundred pounds of the money in the purchase of a shell-cap, which was then in fashion.* Prudent mothers will avoid showing any admiration of pretty...

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