The Education of American Girls: Considered in a Series of EssaysAnna Callender Brackett G. P. Putnam's, 1874 - 401 páginas |
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... habits , will develop to some extent the intelligence , and that the forces of nature will fashion the body into maturity ; we apply the term Education only to the voluntary training of one human being who is undeveloped , by another ...
... habits , will develop to some extent the intelligence , and that the forces of nature will fashion the body into maturity ; we apply the term Education only to the voluntary training of one human being who is undeveloped , by another ...
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... habits of neatness and order , she has also acquired judgment enough for the purpose , and needs only a few words of direction . The sewing of bands to gathers , the covering of cord , the cording of neck or belt , the arrangement of ...
... habits of neatness and order , she has also acquired judgment enough for the purpose , and needs only a few words of direction . The sewing of bands to gathers , the covering of cord , the cording of neck or belt , the arrangement of ...
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... habits necessary to form a good cook and housekeeper are thoughtfulness , method , delicacy and accuracy of perception , good judgment , and the power of readily adapting means to ends , which , with Americans , is termed ' faculty ...
... habits necessary to form a good cook and housekeeper are thoughtfulness , method , delicacy and accuracy of perception , good judgment , and the power of readily adapting means to ends , which , with Americans , is termed ' faculty ...
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... habits I mentioned above . The pupils are trained to steady industry and persever- ance , to scorn dishonest work , and to control temper . The girls who leave school so trained , though they may know nothing of cooking or housekeeping ...
... habits I mentioned above . The pupils are trained to steady industry and persever- ance , to scorn dishonest work , and to control temper . The girls who leave school so trained , though they may know nothing of cooking or housekeeping ...
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... habit of irregular eating or drinking . If possible , the growing girl should have her dinner in the middle of the day . The exigencies of city life make this arrangement in some cases inconvenient , and yet inconvenience is less often ...
... habit of irregular eating or drinking . If possible , the growing girl should have her dinner in the middle of the day . The exigencies of city life make this arrangement in some cases inconvenient , and yet inconvenience is less often ...
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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.