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Acquisitiveness action ADAPTATION AND CULTIVATION Adhesiveness Alimentiveness animal Approbativeness Augustus de Morgan beautiful become Benevolence body brain cast cause Cautiousness cerebellum character chil child Combativeness Conscientiousness consequent constitute death delightful depravity desire Destructiveness developed dren DUE REGULATION duty earth effect enjoy enjoyment especially evil excite exercise father fear feelings friends friendship function Giulio Regondi give happiness head heaven Hence higher faculties human ical important improvement indulge infinitely influence intel large Ideality law of things lect live LOCATION mankind means mental mind moral faculties mothers nature ness never organ ourselves pain parental love perfect perpetual perverted Philoprogenitiveness physical physical laws Physiology pleasure practice predominant present principle propensities punishment quired R. B. Sheridan render require restraint rich scull Self-Esteem soul spirit subdue tell things tion TIVATED tiveness truth Veneration violate virtue VITELLIUS whereas wrong young youth
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Page 291 - For the master architect, for the engraver, the engineer, the pattern designer, the draughtsman, moulder, machine builder, or head mechanic of any kind, all acknowledge that this art is essential and indispensable. But there is no department of business or condition in life, where the accomplishment would not be of utility. Every man should be able to...
Page 85 - unto him that hath," that is, uses what he hath, " shall be given, and he shall have more abundantly. But from him that hath not," that is, uses not the grace which he hath already received, whether in a larger or smaller degree, " shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 291 - But suppose it were otherwise, and that learning to draw retarded the acquisition of good penmanship, how richly would the learner be compensated for the sacrifice. Drawing, of itself, is an expressive and beautiful language. A few strokes of the pen or pencil will often represent to the eye what no amount of words, however well chosen, can communicate. For the...
Page 290 - This excellence must be referred, in a great degree, to the universal practice of learning to draw contemporaneously with learning to write. I believe a child will learn both to draw and to write sooner and with more ease than he will learn writing alone...
Page 273 - If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth liberally and upbraideth not.
Page 290 - France, or in our own country, I have never seen any schools worthy to be compared with theirs in this respect. I have before said that I found all children provided with a slate and pen«il.
Page 136 - A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another.
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