The Education of American Girls: Considered in a Series of EssaysAnna Callender Brackett G. P. Putnam's, 1874 - 401 páginas |
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... Physical Education " far outnumber those on the " Culture of the Intellect , " and the " Culture of the Will , " it can only be said that the American nation are far more liable to overlook the former than the latter two , and that the ...
... Physical Education " far outnumber those on the " Culture of the Intellect , " and the " Culture of the Will , " it can only be said that the American nation are far more liable to overlook the former than the latter two , and that the ...
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... physical and mental , which we have to fashion into womanhood by means of education . But is it not manifest in the outset , that no system based on European life can be adequate to the solution of such a problem ? Our American girls ...
... physical and mental , which we have to fashion into womanhood by means of education . But is it not manifest in the outset , that no system based on European life can be adequate to the solution of such a problem ? Our American girls ...
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... and mean : Enter boldly , for here too there are gods ; nay , perchance we shall thereby enter the very temple of the goddess Hygeia herself . PHYSICAL EDUCATION , OR , THE CULTURE OF THE BODY THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS . 17.
... and mean : Enter boldly , for here too there are gods ; nay , perchance we shall thereby enter the very temple of the goddess Hygeia herself . PHYSICAL EDUCATION , OR , THE CULTURE OF THE BODY THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS . 17.
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Considered in a Series of Essays Anna Callender Brackett. PHYSICAL EDUCATION , OR , THE CULTURE OF THE BODY . " Hæc ante exitium primis dant signa diebus . ” — VIRGIL . " Now my belief is - and this is a matter upon which I should like ...
Considered in a Series of Essays Anna Callender Brackett. PHYSICAL EDUCATION , OR , THE CULTURE OF THE BODY . " Hæc ante exitium primis dant signa diebus . ” — VIRGIL . " Now my belief is - and this is a matter upon which I should like ...
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... physical exercise , it may almost be pronounced bad in its very nature ; considered as a mental exercise , in its higher spheres , it is excellent , because it calls for the activity of thought ; but after the cutting and fitting are ...
... physical exercise , it may almost be pronounced bad in its very nature ; considered as a mental exercise , in its higher spheres , it is excellent , because it calls for the activity of thought ; but after the cutting and fitting are ...
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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.