Essays on Practical Education, 第 2 巻R. Hunter, 1815 |
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acquired admiration advantage Æsop amongst amusement appear applied arithmetick asked associations attention called camphor capstan chapter Chart of History chil child circumstances common consider conversation Cornelius Nepos cultivated daugh drawing dren early employed endeavoured epigram excite exercise exertion experience father feel give grammar habits happiness hear ideas imagination immediately inclined plane instance instruction invention judge judgment knowledge labour language learned lessons lever manner master means mecha mechanical advantage mechanicks memory ment mind moral mother motion necessary never objects observed opinion Ovid parents passion perceive perhaps person pleasure Plutarch preceptor principles prudence pulley pupils quire reason recollect remember rience rope rote sense sledge sophism species spirit of wine sublime talents taste taught teach thing thought tion understanding Voltaire weight whilst wish words young
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