Lectures on Female Education: Comprising the First and Second Series of a Course Delivered to Mrs. Garnett's Pupils, at Elm-wood, Essex County, Virginia |
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Page 2 - POMEROY, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit : . . "Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence.
Page 348 - I believe, that if Christianity should be compelled to flee from the mansions of the great, the academies of the philosophers, the halls of legislators, or the throng of busy men, we should find her last and purest retreat with woman at the fireside ; her last altar would be the female heart ; her last audience would be the children gathered round the knees of a mother ; her last sacrifice, the secret prayer escaping, in silence, from her lips, and heard, perhaps, only at the throne of God.
Page 321 - — how ? for future conversion ? — No, but ' in the way he should go, that when he is old he may not depart from it.
Page 35 - Rousseau wished to subject the child to the laws of destiny ; Pestalozzi himself creates that destiny during the course of the child's education, and directs its decrees towards his happiness and his improvement. The child feels himself free, because he enjoys himself amidst the general order which surrounds him, the perfect equality of which is not deranged even by the talents of the children, whether more or less distinguished. Success is not the object of pursuit, but merely progress towards a...
Page 8 - I have always believed, that national character, as well as happiness, depends more on the female part of society, than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother, inculcated in the amiable, graceful, and affectionate manner, which belongs to the parent and the sex, sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced. These impressions have an influence on character, which may contribute greatly to the happiness or misery, the eminence or insignificancy,...
Page 35 - ... fifty children has been conducted without the stimulus of emulation and fear. How many evil sentiments are spared to the heart of man, when we drive far from him jealousy and humiliation, when he sees no rivals in his comrades, no judges in his masters ! Rousseau wished to subject the child to the laws of destiny ; Pestalozzi himself creates that destiny during the course of the child's education, and directs its decrees towards his happiness and his improvement. The child feels himself free,...
Page 36 - ... above all the religious sentiments which animate that school. The forms of worship are not followed there with more exactness than elsewhere; but every thing is transacted in the name of the Deity, in the name of that sentiment, noble, elevated, and pure, which is the habitual religion of the heart. Truth, goodness, confidence, affection, surround the children ; it is in that atmosphere they live ; 'and for a time at least, they remain strangers to all the hateful passions, to all the proud prejudices...
Page 348 - ... minds, instead of those vanishing scenes of pleasure, which are now so frequently gliding before their idle fancies? We look to you, ladies, to raise the standard of character in our own sex ; we look to you, to guard and fortify those barriers, which still exist in society, against the encroachments of impudence and licentiousness. We look to you for the continuance of domestic purity, for the revival of domestic religion, for the increase of our charities, and the support of what remains of...
Page 8 - I think it, if she does so much towards making her son what she would wish him to be, and her daughter to resemble herself, how essential is it, that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties. To accomplish this beneficial purpose, is the object of Mr Garnett's Lectures, and he has done much towards its attainment. His precepts appear to be drawn from deep and accurate observation of human life and manners, and to be admirably well calculated to improve the understanding...
Page 35 - ... remarkable circumstance is, that punishments and rewards are never necessary to excite them to industry ; it is perhaps the first time that a school of a hundred and fifty children has been conducted without the stimulus of emulation and fear. How many evil sentiments are spared to the heart of man, when we drive far from him jealousy and humiliation, when he sees no rivals in his comrades, no judges in his masters ! Rousseau wished...