The Infant System: For Developing the Physical, Intellectual and Moral Powers of All Children, from One to Seven Years of AgeArguments to show the importance of exercise, might be drawn from every part of the animal economy. Without it, the circulation of the blood cannot be properly carried on, nor the different secretions duly performed; neither can the fluids be properly prepared, nor the solids rendered firm or strong. The action of the heart, the motion of the lungs, and all the vital functions, are greatly assisted by exercise. But to point out the manner in which these effects are produced, would lead us beyond the present subject. |
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... necessary to remark , that the system explained in this volume , is the result of many years of labour . Thousands of children have been attentively observed , and for the necessities that arise in their instruction , provision has been ...
... necessary to remark , that the system explained in this volume , is the result of many years of labour . Thousands of children have been attentively observed , and for the necessities that arise in their instruction , provision has been ...
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... necessary to handcuff and fetter a child of so tender an age ; and to enable him to hold even the magistrates , officers , and his own parent , in defiance . The two following cases afford further proof of the same lamentable truth ...
... necessary to handcuff and fetter a child of so tender an age ; and to enable him to hold even the magistrates , officers , and his own parent , in defiance . The two following cases afford further proof of the same lamentable truth ...
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... necessary for his health , that this change of scene should be into a close tap - room , within a few yards of his home , where he drinks to a ruinous excess till a late hour , breathing all the while a hot atmo- sphere of tobacco ...
... necessary for his health , that this change of scene should be into a close tap - room , within a few yards of his home , where he drinks to a ruinous excess till a late hour , breathing all the while a hot atmo- sphere of tobacco ...
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... necessary that we should interfere on the behalf of children so situated ; and I shall conclude the present chapter by some remarks on various habits and practices of the poor classes , which have at least an injurious tendency on the ...
... necessary that we should interfere on the behalf of children so situated ; and I shall conclude the present chapter by some remarks on various habits and practices of the poor classes , which have at least an injurious tendency on the ...
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... having said what I conceived necessary upon the occasion , I dismissed her , observing that it was useless for ladies and gentlemen to establish ハー schools for the education of the infant poor , 54 ON INFANT EDUCATION .
... having said what I conceived necessary upon the occasion , I dismissed her , observing that it was useless for ladies and gentlemen to establish ハー schools for the education of the infant poor , 54 ON INFANT EDUCATION .
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Page 211 - And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
Page 209 - For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright ; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Page 97 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 221 - Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, "O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it.
Page 210 - And he told it to his father, and to his brethren : and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed ? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth ? And his brethren envied him ; but his father observed the saying.
Page 214 - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them ; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived : And Israel said, It is enough ; Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before I die.
Page 216 - And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them,
Page 157 - My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of His correction: for whom the Lord loveth He correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Page 218 - And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Page 221 - And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.