Bookless lessons for the teacher-motherMacmillian Company, 1922 - 265 pages |
Common terms and phrases
acquired answer baby bark become birds body chil correct daily Dean Jones develop discipline dren educated animals effort epic poetry explain father fault feel FRANCES LYNCH girl give grow hand human ical instruction intelligence irreligion Jack Horner keep kind kindergarten knowledge lack leaf leaves lessons Let me fly Let the child little birdie living Lord's Prayer means memorizing mental mind moral mother natural naughty never obedience objects observation overcome parents physical play playmate playthings poem practice punishment pupil questions ready realize reason religion Repeat rhyming rizing roots self-control sense simple soul sound speak stick suitable syllables talk tasks taught Teach the child teacher teacher-mother tell things tion tree truth uncon understand weeds words wrong young child
Popular passages
Page 244 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.
Page 242 - What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. What does little baby say, In her bed at peep of day ? Baby says, like little birdie, • Let me rise and fly away.
Page 246 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Page 226 - It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, "or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
Page 30 - For idly, hour by hour, He sat and watched the dead leaves fall, Or mused upon a common flower. It seemed the loveliness of things Did teach him all their use, For, in mere weeds, and stones, and springs, He found a healing power profuse.
Page 253 - HAMELIN Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied ; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity.
Page 246 - When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. Then the traveler in the dark, Thanks you for your tiny spark : He could not see which way to go, If you did not twinkle so. In the dark blue sky you keep, And often through my curtains peep, For you never shut your eye . Till the sun is in the sky. As your bright and tiny spark Lights the traveller in the dark, Though I know not what you are, Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Page 92 - Thousands of thousands of suns, multiplied without end, and ranged all around us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious, invariably keeping the paths prescribed them ; and these worlds peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression, and perfection, and felicity.
Page 240 - Little JACK HORNER Sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas Pie : He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said,
Page 3 - After all, in the sight of the Upper Powers, what is the mighty difference between a statue of Perseus and a loaf of bread, so that each be the thing one's hand has found to do...