The Right Reading for Children in the School: The Home and the LibraryD. C. Heath & Company, 1902 - 82 páginas |
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adapted admirable America's Children America's Story American attractive awaken begin best books best literature BISHOP Boards books for children boys and girls CHARLES ELIOT NORTON CHARLES WELSH charm chil child Children By MARA cloth 20 cents delight dren Edited by CHARLES Edited by M. V. EDWARD EVERETT HALE Effectively illustrated ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS English ethical fairy tale fairy tales give grade Heart of Oak Heath's Home Home and School illus imagination interest introduction John Ruskin language Leland Stanford lessons LIBRARIAN litera literary M. V. O'SHEA Mary mind Miss moral Mother Goose nature NORMAL SCHOOL nursery Oak Books Edited pages 40 cents Paper parents Prof pupils Reading for Children Right Reading School Classics selected Story for America's style superintendent of schools supplementary reading Supt taste teach teacher things ture W. P. TRENT WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON words writes young reader
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Página 49 - ... ..Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most '
Página 49 - Qive a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Página 38 - Would you know whether the tendency of a book is good or evil, examine in what state of mind you lay it down. Has it induced you to suspect that what you have been accustomed to think unlawful may after all be innocent, and that that may be harmless which you have hitherto been taught to think dangerous?
Página 18 - Shakspeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me / with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Página 49 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 34 - So, when my nurse comes in for me, Home I return across the sea, And go to bed with backward looks At my dear Land of Story-books.
Página 44 - THAT book is good Which puts me in a working mood.' Unless to Thought is added Will, Apollo is an imbecile.
Página 73 - Dolph Heyliger. Edited by GH Browne. Illustrated by HP Barnes. Paper, 15 cents ; cloth, 25 cents. Shakespeare's The Tempest. Edited by Sarah W. Hiestand. Illustrations after Retzch and the Chandos portrait. Paper, 15 cents ; cloth, 25 cents. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Edited by Sarah W. Hiestand. Illustrations after Smirke and the Droeshout portrait. Paper, 15 cents ; cloth, 25 cents. Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Edited by Sarah W. Hiestand. Illustrations after Smirke, Creswick...
Página 10 - ... over all sides of the matter, how the many-sided material calls forth a many-sided judgment, how the charm of change ends in preference for the best, so that the boy who perhaps feels himself a step or two higher in moral judgment than the hero or the author, will cling to his view with inner approbation, and so guard himself from a coarseness he already feels beneath him.