The Education of American Girls: Considered in a Series of EssaysAnna Callender Brackett G. P. Putnam's, 1874 - 401 páginas |
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... brains are over - worked , but that their bodies generally , including brain , are under- fed . I do not mean that they do not eat enough in bulk , though that is often the case , but that they do not take in enough of the chemical ...
... brains are over - worked , but that their bodies generally , including brain , are under- fed . I do not mean that they do not eat enough in bulk , though that is often the case , but that they do not take in enough of the chemical ...
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... brain in unusually hard work , might probably be helped by eating some nour- ishing food before sleep . If she do not , the result will not infrequently be that she will awake tired and lan- guid ; she will sit idly at the breakfast ...
... brain in unusually hard work , might probably be helped by eating some nour- ishing food before sleep . If she do not , the result will not infrequently be that she will awake tired and lan- guid ; she will sit idly at the breakfast ...
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... brain- work , the tremendous and unusual strain on the whole nervous system , occasioned by the destruction of nerve- cells , must be made good , or those organs most intimately connected with the nervous system and the sources of life ...
... brain- work , the tremendous and unusual strain on the whole nervous system , occasioned by the destruction of nerve- cells , must be made good , or those organs most intimately connected with the nervous system and the sources of life ...
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... brain work we are doing . This question cannot justly be considered apart from the other inquiry , of how much appropriate ma- terial we are supplying for the use of the brain . We cannot judge whether the amount of force expended be ...
... brain work we are doing . This question cannot justly be considered apart from the other inquiry , of how much appropriate ma- terial we are supplying for the use of the brain . We cannot judge whether the amount of force expended be ...
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... brain is to be found in normal sleep . From the instant when , in the morning , we become con- scious of the external world , to the instant late at night , or , it may be , early in the morning , when we pass through the gates of sleep ...
... brain is to be found in normal sleep . From the instant when , in the morning , we become con- scious of the external world , to the instant late at night , or , it may be , early in the morning , when we pass through the gates of sleep ...
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Página 144 - I see thee old and formal, fitted to thy petty part, With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart. "They were dangerous guides the feelings — she herself was not exempt — Truly, she herself had suffer'd" — Perish in thy self-contempt ! Overlive it — lower yet — be happy!
Página 167 - Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
Página 29 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Página 146 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Página 61 - KARL FRIEDRICH ROSENKRANZ, Doctor of Theology and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Konigsberg. Translated from the German by ANNA C. BRACKETT.
Página 18 - Gymnastic as well as music should begin in early years; the training in it should be careful and should continue through life. Now my belief is, — and this is a matter upon which I should like to have your opinion...
Página 117 - ... laugh By precept only, and shed tears by rule. Thy Art be Nature ; the live current quaff, And let the groveller sip his stagnant pool, In fear that else, when Critics grave and cool Have killed him, Scorn should write his epitaph. How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold ? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold ; And so the grandeur of the Forest-tree Comes not by casting in a formal mould, But from its own divine vitality.