A Manual of the System of Instruction Pursued at the Infant School, Meadow Street, Bristol

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825 - Education - 157 pages
 

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Page 89 - Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty...
Page 150 - I like little pussy, her coat is so warm, And if I don't hurt her, she'll do me no harm; So I'll not pull her tail, nor drive her away, But pussy and I very gently will play: 2.
Page 146 - Art thou my Father? — Let me be A meek obedient child to Thee; And try, in word, and deed, and thought, To serve and please Thee as I ought.
Page 137 - To do to others as I would That they should do to me, Will make me honest, kind, and good, As children ought to be.
Page 145 - Oh how can a poor little creature repay Thy fatherly kindness by night and by day ! My voice would be lisping thy praise, My heart would repay thee with love • Oh teach me to walk in thy ways, And fit me to see thee above : For Jesus said, " Let little children come nigh ; And he will not despise such an infant as I.
Page 147 - Holy Bible, book divine, Precious treasure ! thou art mine ; Mine, to tell me whence I came ; Mine, to teach me what I am.
Page 56 - The poor creature attempted to climb up the sides of the boat, but his master, whose intention was to drown him, constantly pushed him back with the oar; in doing this, he fell himself into the water, and would certainly have been drowned had not the dog, as soon as he saw his master struggling in the stream; suffered the boat to float away, and held him above water till assistance arrived, and his life was saved.
Page 146 - Art Thou my Father? Let me be A meek obedient child to Thee, And try, in word and deed and thought, To serve and please Thee as I ought. 4 Art Thou my Father?
Page 84 - Just so it is in the mind ; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas, and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians, as to make them reasonable creatures...
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