Progressive Education: Observations on the first four years of childhoodLongman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 - Education |
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... clothing to children , already un- happily depraved , has been found a very effi- cacious means of impressing them with a degree of self - respect , and giving them habits of order and modesty . The effects of external objects on the ...
... clothing to children , already un- happily depraved , has been found a very effi- cacious means of impressing them with a degree of self - respect , and giving them habits of order and modesty . The effects of external objects on the ...
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... clothing , or any thing else which is likely to excite an emotion of lively joy in the little beggar , at the same time that it re- quires no sacrifice on the part of the child , and he will soon find so much pleasure in the act of ...
... clothing , or any thing else which is likely to excite an emotion of lively joy in the little beggar , at the same time that it re- quires no sacrifice on the part of the child , and he will soon find so much pleasure in the act of ...
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... not suf ficiently consider that to children , who have seen nothing , every thing is equally natural and equally possible . As soon as an idea is presented to them , their imagination clothes it with a real 176 THE IMAGINATION AT.
... not suf ficiently consider that to children , who have seen nothing , every thing is equally natural and equally possible . As soon as an idea is presented to them , their imagination clothes it with a real 176 THE IMAGINATION AT.
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Albertine Adrienne de Saussure Necker. to them , their imagination clothes it with a real living form ; and a vague sentiment of fear will often raise images of terror in their minds . When we reflect on the vivacity of their ima ...
Albertine Adrienne de Saussure Necker. to them , their imagination clothes it with a real living form ; and a vague sentiment of fear will often raise images of terror in their minds . When we reflect on the vivacity of their ima ...
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... clothes the lily of the field , and forgetteth not even the little bird , — God , who is the im- mediate author of all that we behold in nature , and who has bestowed on weak human beings those brilliant faculties which have enabled ...
... clothes the lily of the field , and forgetteth not even the little bird , — God , who is the im- mediate author of all that we behold in nature , and who has bestowed on weak human beings those brilliant faculties which have enabled ...
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