The Child's Instructor: Consisting of Easy Lessons for Children ...Samuel Marks, 1817 - 103 pages |
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... LITTLE CHILDREN IN PHILADELPHΙΑΣ 1 PREFACE . 00000 THE books which we first put into. When I was a child , I spake as a child .... ST . PAUL .. NEW - YORK : Printed by Samuel Marks , FOR B. CRANE , BOOK - SELLER AND STATIONER , 85 Cherry ...
... LITTLE CHILDREN IN PHILADELPHΙΑΣ 1 PREFACE . 00000 THE books which we first put into. When I was a child , I spake as a child .... ST . PAUL .. NEW - YORK : Printed by Samuel Marks , FOR B. CRANE , BOOK - SELLER AND STATIONER , 85 Cherry ...
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... child , because he cannot understand them : and if a child does not understand his lesson , he will learn it with difficulty . Books for little children should be printed on good pa- per , with a fair letter . The lessons should be ...
... child , because he cannot understand them : and if a child does not understand his lesson , he will learn it with difficulty . Books for little children should be printed on good pa- per , with a fair letter . The lessons should be ...
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... little children would undoubtedly be furnished with better books , and better teachers . And if they would right- ly ... child in the way he should go , and when he is old he will not depart from it . These are truths which no one ...
... little children would undoubtedly be furnished with better books , and better teachers . And if they would right- ly ... child in the way he should go , and when he is old he will not depart from it . These are truths which no one ...
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John Ely. how little are they regarded ! We who are pa- rents ought to consider that when we are old , we shall want ... child in learning his let- ters ; a perfect knowledge of which is abso- lutely necessary : -a confused idea of ...
John Ely. how little are they regarded ! We who are pa- rents ought to consider that when we are old , we shall want ... child in learning his let- ters ; a perfect knowledge of which is abso- lutely necessary : -a confused idea of ...
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... boy will sit still , and mind his book . 2. Knife , fork , spoon , plate , dish , cup , bowl , mug , jug , pot ... little . 4. Bread , but - ter , cheese , meat , pud - ding , pye , cake , beef , pork , veal , soup , sauce , salt ...
... boy will sit still , and mind his book . 2. Knife , fork , spoon , plate , dish , cup , bowl , mug , jug , pot ... little . 4. Bread , but - ter , cheese , meat , pud - ding , pye , cake , beef , pork , veal , soup , sauce , salt ...
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Page 96 - The world recedes — it disappears ; Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount, I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death ! where is thy sting...
Page 36 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 90 - Business; but to these we must add Frugality, if we would make our Industry more certainly successful. A Man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his Nose all his Life to the Grindstone, and die not worth a Groat at last. A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will, as Poor Richard says; and Many Estates are spent in the Getting, Since Women for Tea forsook Spinning and Knitting, And Men for Punch forsook Hewing and Splitting.
Page 58 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 93 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise ; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
Page 70 - Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Page 101 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 66 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 37 - Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
Page 41 - FROM all that dwell below the skies Let the Creator's praise arise : Let the Redeemer's name be sung Through every land, by every tongue. 2 Eternal .are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word ; Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.