The Well of English and the BucketLittle, Brown,, 1917 - 149 páginas |
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Página 39 - This book provides for three years' work, and is intended for pupils who are beginning to write English. The leading aims of the work are to develop the child's power of thought, to aid him in forming habits of correct expression, and to give him a taste for good literature.
Página 18 - But now I shall be asked: Would you substitute these activities for the studies — give up the classroom for the lounging room and the Union? Of course not. The very excellence of these activities is that fundamentally they are the fruits of the classroom. But the point is that by these fruits the work of the classroom shall be known. We need not forget that these activities are only accidental and that the real values lie in the studies and the teaching. But none the less, it is true that these...
Página 64 - ... constant employment, and their labor is entirely agreeable to themselves. That is one of the first things, when a young man comes for employment and you take him on and give him a chance, that he is set to do. . There, you see, all this culture that we have been considering is at once brought into action. He must learn accurately the facts, and he must state them exactly as they are ; and if he can state them with a little degree of life, a little approach to eloquence, or a little humor in his...
Página 31 - It is a well-known fact that a child's powers, whether physical or mental, ripen in a certain rather definite order. There is, for instance, a certain time in the life of the infant when the motor mechanism of the legs ripens, before which the child can not be taught to walk, \vhile after that time he can not be kept from walking.
Página 143 - does not steal, he conquers, and what he conquers he annexes to his empire. He makes laws for it, he peoples it with his subjects, and extends his golden sceptre over it. And where is the man who, on surveying his beautiful kingdom, shall dare to assert that this or that part of his land is no part of his property?
Página 104 - ... transposition of the mind, now to one now to another standpoint in order to contemplate its object, may correspond an alternating tension and relaxation of the elastic portions of our intestines which communicates itself to the diaphragm (like that which ticklish people feel). In connection with this the lungs expel the air at rapidly succeeding intervals, and thus bring about a movement beneficial to health; which alone, and not what precedes it in the mind, is the proper cause of the gratification...
Página 142 - e stole; 'e knew they knowed. They didn't tell, nor make a fuss, But winked at 'Omer down the road, An...
Página 42 - ... Complements that name the subject, or describe it by denoting some quality, or attribute, of it ; as, The first president was Washington. The complement Washington names the subject. The earth is round. Round denotes an attribute of the earth. 2. Complements that name the object which receives the act performed by the subject and expressed by the verb ; as, The Romans built ships. Ships is the object that receives the action performed by the subject Romans and expressed by the verb built. In...
Página 109 - If any fellow-student detect an omission, let him communicate with me. Meanwhile, here is my list : — Mothers-in-law Hen-pecked husbands Twins Old maids Jews Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, Negroes (not Russians, or other foreigners of any denomination) Fatness Thinness Long hair (worn by a man) Baldness Sea-sickness Stuttering Bad cheese ' Shooting the moon ' (slang expression for leaving a lodging-house without paying the bill).
Página 103 - Laughter is an affection arising from the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing.