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... she is old " But the youth of our age fet up for wifdom the quite contrary way , and think that by defpifing and ridiculing their parents , they fhall acquire the reputation of wits . If fuch will not prac- 66 tife Solomon's ...
... she is old " But the youth of our age fet up for wifdom the quite contrary way , and think that by defpifing and ridiculing their parents , they fhall acquire the reputation of wits . If fuch will not prac- 66 tife Solomon's ...
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... She is not prefumed to have a will contrary to her husband's , and therefore the child difobeys not his mother , who obeys his father's command , because the mother is to be obedient alfo ; and the cafe is not very much altered , tho ...
... She is not prefumed to have a will contrary to her husband's , and therefore the child difobeys not his mother , who obeys his father's command , because the mother is to be obedient alfo ; and the cafe is not very much altered , tho ...
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... She that liftens to any wanton discourse has violated her ears ; the that fpeaks any , her tongue ; every immodeft glance vitiates her eye , and every the flight- eft act of dalliance leaves fomething of ftain and ful- lage behind it ...
... She that liftens to any wanton discourse has violated her ears ; the that fpeaks any , her tongue ; every immodeft glance vitiates her eye , and every the flight- eft act of dalliance leaves fomething of ftain and ful- lage behind it ...
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... she has made them . But all this being granted , it will by no means juftify that exceffive cu iofity and folicitude , that expence of time and money too , which is now ufed . Moderation is much likelier to fucceed , than the contrary ...
... she has made them . But all this being granted , it will by no means juftify that exceffive cu iofity and folicitude , that expence of time and money too , which is now ufed . Moderation is much likelier to fucceed , than the contrary ...
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... She that will not be prescribed to in the choice of her ordinary diverting company , will be lefs fo in choofing the fixed companions of her life ; and we find it often eventual- ly true , that those who govern themselves in the former ...
... She that will not be prescribed to in the choice of her ordinary diverting company , will be lefs fo in choofing the fixed companions of her life ; and we find it often eventual- ly true , that those who govern themselves in the former ...
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Page 239 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 191 - Art; and he that has found a way, how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a Mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming Contradictions, has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education.
Page 181 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Page 48 - In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behaviour of their wives ; beholding your chaste behaviour coupled with fear.
Page 208 - ... or governor's sight. If it be a prison to them, it is no wonder they should not like it. They must not be hindered from being children, or from playing, or doing as children ; but from doing ill. All other liberty is to be allowed them.
Page 189 - Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself, and his own conduct; and he that is a good, a virtuous, and able man, must be made so within. And therefore what he is to receive from education, what is to sway and influence his life, must be something put into him betimes; habits woven into the very principles of his nature; and not a counterfeit carriage, and dissembled outside, put on by fear, only to avoid the present anger of a father, who perhaps may disinherit him.
Page 188 - If therefore a strict hand be kept over children from the beginning, they will in that age be tractable, and quietly submit to it, as never having known any other...
Page 202 - ... it. For in many cases, all that we can do, or should aim at, is to make the best of what Nature has given; to prevent the Vices and Faults to which such a Constitution is most inclined, and give it all the Advantages it is capable of. Every one's Natural Genius should be carried as far as it could, but to Attempt the putting another upon him, will be but Labour in vain: And what is so Plaister'd on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the Ungracefulness of Constraint...
Page 191 - To avoid the danger that is on either hand is the great art : and he that has found a way how to keep up a child's spirit, easy, active, and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him ; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming contradictions, has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education.
Page 161 - I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. 'Tis that which makes the great difference in mankind.