The Education of American Girls: Considered in a Series of EssaysAnna Callender Brackett G. P. Putnam's, 1874 - 401 páginas |
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... simple reason that they involve not merely manual dexterity , but also an exercise of the judgment , which in the child has not yet become suffi- ciently developed . But when the girl has lived fourteen years , we will say , and has ...
... simple reason that they involve not merely manual dexterity , but also an exercise of the judgment , which in the child has not yet become suffi- ciently developed . But when the girl has lived fourteen years , we will say , and has ...
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... simple result of weakness . It is only Micawber's old statement over again : " Annual income , twenty pounds , annual expenditure , twenty pounds , ought , and six ; re- sult - Misery . " After a long course of this kind , the physician ...
... simple result of weakness . It is only Micawber's old statement over again : " Annual income , twenty pounds , annual expenditure , twenty pounds , ought , and six ; re- sult - Misery . " After a long course of this kind , the physician ...
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... simple solution of the difficulty . I suggest that this experiment be tried : let the girl study her extra time in the evening , if she desires , only being cautious that she do not infringe upon her sleep hours ; then give her a supper ...
... simple solution of the difficulty . I suggest that this experiment be tried : let the girl study her extra time in the evening , if she desires , only being cautious that she do not infringe upon her sleep hours ; then give her a supper ...
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... simple expedient , and yet perfectly successful , and the girl who has tried it for three days will discard the inelastic braid forever . I say elastic cord , and not ribbon , because the elastic ribbon is too strong , and does not ...
... simple expedient , and yet perfectly successful , and the girl who has tried it for three days will discard the inelastic braid forever . I say elastic cord , and not ribbon , because the elastic ribbon is too strong , and does not ...
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... simple regimen which pre- served our physical health for us , we thank them also for the care which kept out of our way the mental food which they knew to be injurious , and for which they themselves had been too well educated to have ...
... simple regimen which pre- served our physical health for us , we thank them also for the care which kept out of our way the mental food which they knew to be injurious , and for which they themselves had been too well educated to have ...
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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.