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Page 12 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 101 - Come now, you don't know what Grandmamma has for you." Boy—" What ?" M.— " An orange." Grandmamma — " There's Shamrock (the dog,) now, make haste, or we'll get Shamrock to say pretty prayers.
Page 99 - ... daughter of an old blacksmith, named Taylor, who had died a year or two before, at the age of 97. Having heard that enquiries were made respecting these bodies, she told the foreman that they were the remains of Welshmen, who had been engaged in the Siege of Gloucester, and had been slain on the spot ; that when she was a child, she was in the habit of passing through this field with her father to visit relations in Hartpury, and that he had often pointed out the spot to her as that on which...
Page 96 - ... it, make him aware of his habit, and also convince him of his power and yours to conquer it. But it is very questionable whether these victories do not leave behind them a resentfulness and soreness which it takes years to efface. However this may be with regard to habits already formed, certain it is that one should try to prevent the formation of the habit, a thing only to be done by analyzing the feeling.
Page 96 - There is a passage containing some excellent remarks in the Monthly Repository, touching this subject, although it does not bear exactly upon the feeling under notice, as the obstinacy which proceeds from resistance to a supposed injury is, as above said, not a case of the genuine feeling. " Nothing fosters obstinacy like contention. It has been said, and there may be some truth in the idea, that it is right to do battle once with an obstinate child, and by...
Page 117 - Ah ! spare yon emmet, rich in hoarded grain ; He lives with pleasure, and he dies with pain.
Page 94 - The first-mentioned of these children, "when four years old, while walking in the wood at , wished to gather some flowers for his mamma, who was going away. ' There is no time now,' said some one ,present, ' but you can send her a nosegay in a few days.' ' They will hang their heads,' said he, ' when mamma goes — they will cry — they will all wither and waste away !' One evening, while watching the sunset, he said, 'The sun sinks behind the deep hills.
Page 102 - I should say, upon this chair, in order to be sure that they are safe." C. consented to the terms, and joyfully bedecked herself with her finery, and •then stationed herself upon a chair. It was a fine evening in August, and the other children were out ; however for two hours C. persevered in sitting on the chair. At length she begged to have them taken off, and from that time to this (two years) the do-ills have never been mentioned but with an uncomfortable feeling and a blush. The plan here...
Page 102 - C. was very vain of some jewels, the gift of an injudicious relative ; or as she emphatically called them, her do-ills. Day after day she asked to wear them. Day after day her mother said ' No,' but finding that to refuse was of no use, she was puzzled what course to adopt, until it occurred to her to let one fire put another out. Accordingly the next time C. applied to her for permission to wear her do-ills, she answered : ' Certainly, wear them if you please ; but...
Page 97 - ... conquer a fit of obstinacy ? Would obstinacy ever spring up under an intelligent guidance ? Must it not have been engendered by a loss of confidence, caused by a quantity of useless requisition on the part of the educator ? Here comes in that principle of action which meets us at every turn, viz., to wait patiently till experience shall have tutored the will. No one will obstinately resist that which he sees to be his good ; it is for this seeing that the parent must so often be content to wait....