Lectures to Female Teachers on School-keepingRichardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1832 - 179 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 65 - ... voice for German, or French, or English ? Surely not. Why then apply this reasoning to music ? Indeed, the argument would be more applicable to language, so far as experience extends. Who ever heard of an individual who spent whole days, for several years together, in singing, who did not find an ear for it ? But we have few examples of men who pronounce a foreign language without obvious errors, even after years of study or of residence in a country where they speak it incessantly. Until we...
الصفحة 94 - Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down without walls
الصفحة 17 - If he who causes two blades of grass to grow, where only one has grown before, has been thought worthy the patriot name, with what title shall he be honoured under whose hand, not unblest, the wilderness of the infant mind is made to blossom as the rose ; and these, the waste places of human life, to bloom with moral beauty, and teem with moral fragrance. The Christian philanthropist has no need to lament that...
الصفحة 69 - ... made at the proper age, and in the proper manner, it has been successful. I have already stated that it forms a part of common school education throughout Germany and Switzerland. In the improved schools, it is deemed no more difficult, and no more remarkable to read and write musick, than language.
الصفحة 67 - Chapman, in his Rhythmical Grammar, and Rush and Barber, in their works, have pointed out very clearly the musical intervals, which are necessary in order to speak and read correctly and intelligibly. They have shown that in order to ask a question, the voice usually rises a third, or three tones ; that when the question is more earnest, or asked with surprise, the tone is a fifth higher than usual ; and that when the earnestness is still greater, the voice rises eight tones ; and that these intervals...
الصفحة 64 - Sounds, like colours, cannot be described in words. They must be taught by examples, patiently repeated and carefully attended to, until the ear is familiar with them ; and gradually extended, as its powers of discrimination are increased. I have known cases in which persons who said they could not distinguish one note from another, have found no difficulty in doing it, as soon as a few notes had been sounded before them, and the use of the appropriate terms had been illustrated.
الصفحة 27 - By no art," returned this excellent parent, " but that of teaching them from the very cradle an implicit submission. Having never once been permitted to disobey me, they have no idea of attempting it ; but you see, I always give them a choice, when it can be done with propriety ; if it cannot, whatever I say they know to be a law, like that of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
الصفحة 110 - Jt is invariablv recommended by physicians, who, in their daily practice, have occasion to witness the melancholy effects of those habits of inaction, which so generally prevail among the female portion of society, more especially in cities and large towns. With a view to diminish the extent of the evil, several members of the medical profession, and other enlightened individuals have in the \ sible some active exercise should be adopted in the school-room.
الصفحة 110 - Exercise is universally acknowledged to be essential to the preservation of health. It is invariably recommended by physicians, who, in their daily practice, have occasion to witness the melancholy effects of those habits of inaction, which so generally prevail among the female portion of society, more especially in cities and largo towns.
الصفحة 136 - They drink enough at one time to last them several days. How long does it take them to cross the desert ? Sometimes they travel several months before they get across. What do they do for drink, then ? Their masters sometimes go out of their way to find water at a distance. Can camels smell water before they see it ? They will smell water a mile off, and travel very fast, till they come to it Does one man go alone with his camel, and carry goods across the desert ? No ; they are afraid to go alone,...