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... remember a thing we reproduce the mental operations connected with the immediate perception of it . : The next faculty to be considered is CONCEPTION . In every act of memory the image which is recalled is always connected , in our ...
... remember a thing we reproduce the mental operations connected with the immediate perception of it . : The next faculty to be considered is CONCEPTION . In every act of memory the image which is recalled is always connected , in our ...
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... remember a tenth part of them , much less to observe them . How- ever , they were either by words or blows corrected for the breach of those multiplied and often very impertinent pre- cepts . Whence it naturally followed , that the ...
... remember a tenth part of them , much less to observe them . How- ever , they were either by words or blows corrected for the breach of those multiplied and often very impertinent pre- cepts . Whence it naturally followed , that the ...
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... remember children are not to be taught by rules ; which will be always slipping out of their memories . What you think necessary for them to do , settle in them by an indispensable practice , as often as the occasion re- turns ; and ...
... remember children are not to be taught by rules ; which will be always slipping out of their memories . What you think necessary for them to do , settle in them by an indispensable practice , as often as the occasion re- turns ; and ...
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... remember , -how , in our early childhood , we loved whatever afforded us pleasure , and hated whatever gave us pain , —how we loved the beautiful and the good and dreaded what was ugly and bad , -what horror a butcher or a butcher's ...
... remember , -how , in our early childhood , we loved whatever afforded us pleasure , and hated whatever gave us pain , —how we loved the beautiful and the good and dreaded what was ugly and bad , -what horror a butcher or a butcher's ...
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... remember - when our school days were over , and when we fairly commenced the process of self - deve- lopment with what avidity we read books that suited our capacities and tastes , and what pleasure the exercise of our intellectual ...
... remember - when our school days were over , and when we fairly commenced the process of self - deve- lopment with what avidity we read books that suited our capacities and tastes , and what pleasure the exercise of our intellectual ...
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