Language as a Means of Mental Culture and International Communication: Or, Manual of the Teacher, and the Learner of Languages, Volume 1 |
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... extensive state of liberty in man ; for their general activity and their good direction give him the right to gratify all his desires , which , under their benign influence , can only be virtuous and rational . These three classes of ...
... extensive state of liberty in man ; for their general activity and their good direction give him the right to gratify all his desires , which , under their benign influence , can only be virtuous and rational . These three classes of ...
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... extensive range of physical and intellectual acquirements which he makes in childhood of his own accord , and by his unaided efforts . We have already adverted to these early manifestations of self - education as prompted by the innate ...
... extensive range of physical and intellectual acquirements which he makes in childhood of his own accord , and by his unaided efforts . We have already adverted to these early manifestations of self - education as prompted by the innate ...
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... extensive application ; it forms the basis of reasoning in the common affairs of life and the acquisition of experience ; it guides us in the study of languages and in all experimental and speculative investigations . Physical science ...
... extensive application ; it forms the basis of reasoning in the common affairs of life and the acquisition of experience ; it guides us in the study of languages and in all experimental and speculative investigations . Physical science ...
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... extensive field of enjoy- ment in a life of leisure , and of relaxation in a life of business ; it cheers the gloom of solitude and the dreariness of sleepless nights ; it braves the severest trials of fortune , and alleviates the ...
... extensive field of enjoy- ment in a life of leisure , and of relaxation in a life of business ; it cheers the gloom of solitude and the dreariness of sleepless nights ; it braves the severest trials of fortune , and alleviates the ...
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... extensive portion of them . We should principally aim at those which suit our particular station or profession in society , and at those also which are calcu- lated efficiently to improve our faculties . This is the most certain way of ...
... extensive portion of them . We should principally aim at those which suit our particular station or profession in society , and at those also which are calcu- lated efficiently to improve our faculties . This is the most certain way of ...
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Page 127 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 63 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singingman of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 361 - ... forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings; like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit...
Page 63 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly.'' coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 361 - It is indisputably evident that a great part of every man's life, must be employed in collecting materials for the •exercise of genius. Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing : he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.
Page 267 - Within ten minutes from the commencement of the lesson there stood upon the black board a beautiful map of Germany, with its mountains, principal rivers, and cities, the coast of the German Ocean, of the Baltic and the Black Seas, and all so accurately proportioned, that I think only slight errors would have been found, had it been subjected to the test of a scale of miles. A part of this time was taken up in correcting a few mistakes of the pupils, for the teacher's mind seemed to be in his ear...
Page 267 - They rose in their seats, they flung out both hands, their eyes kindled, and their voices became almost vociferous as they cried out the names of the different places, which, under the magic of the teacher's crayon, rose into view. Within ten minutes from the commencement of the lesson, there stood upon the...
Page 267 - ... of waiting through all the geological epochs to see the work completed. Compare the effect of such a lesson as this, both as to the amount of the knowledge communicated, and the vividness and of course the permanence of the ideas obtained, with a lesson where the scholars look out a few names of places on a lifeless atlas, but never send their imaginations abroad over the earth; and...
Page 266 - The teacher stood by the blackboard, with the chalk in his hand. After casting his eye over the class to see that all were ready, he struck at the middle of the board. With a rapidity of hand which my eye could hardly follow, he made a series of those short, divergent lines, or shading!:, employed by map-engravers to represent a chain of mountains. He had scarcely turned an angle, or shot off a spur, when the scholars began to cry out, Carpathian mountains, Hungary...
Page 178 - This sort of correction naturally breeds an aversion to that which it is the tutor's business to create a liking to. How obvious is it to observe, that children come to hate things which were at first acceptable to them...
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Teaching Hungarian in Austria: perspectives and points of comparison Johanna Laakso Limited preview - 2008 |