| Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1801 - 372 pages
...nobleman about a mathematical demonstration ? Vol. IT. i CHAPTER CHAPTER XVII. ON MECHANICS. PARENTS are anxious that children should be conversant with Mechanics, and with what are called the Mechanic Powers. Certainly no species of knowledge is better suited to the taste and capacity of youth,... | |
| Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1811 - 528 pages
...anxious that children should be conversant with Mechanicks, and,with what are called the mechanick powers. Certainly no species of knowledge is better...talks of the lever, the wedge, and the pulley, but when they wish to employ these organs they frequently perceive that the notions which they have of... | |
| Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1815 - 526 pages
...anxious that children should be conversant with Mechanicks, and with what are called the mechanick powers. Certainly no species of knowledge is better...talks of the lever, the wedge, and the pulley, but when they wish to employ these organs they frequently perceive that the notions which they have of... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 388 pages
...Edgeworth. " Parents," says he, " are anxious " that children should be conversant with mechan" ics, and with what are called the mechanical " powers....of youth, " and yet it seldom forms a part of early instruc" tion. Every body talks of the lever, the wedge, " and the pully, but most people perceive... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 614 pages
...says the late Mr. Edgeworth, to whom as well as to his daughter the public are so deeply indebted, " are anxious that children should be conversant with...respective uses are unsatisfactory and indistinct; and many endeaTour, at a late period of life, to acquire a scientific and exact knowledge of the effects that... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 612 pages
...says the late Mr. Edgeworth, to whom as well as to his daughter the public are so deeply indebted, " are anxious that children should be conversant with...of youth, and yet it seldom forms a part of early inbtruction. " Every body talks of the lever, the wedge, and the pulley, but most people perceive that... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Education - 1822 - 510 pages
...dispute with a Danish nobleman about a mathematical demonstration ? CHAPTER XVII. OK MECHANICS. PARENTS are anxious that children should be conversant with Mechanics, and with what are called the mechanic powers. Certainly no species of knowledge is better suited to the taste and capacity of youth,... | |
| Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1835 - 570 pages
...are anxious that children should be conversant with Mechanics, and with what are called the Mechanic Powers. Certainly no species of knowledge is better...and yet it seldom forms a part of early instruction. Everybody talks of the lever, the wedge, and the pulley, but most people perceive, that the notions... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1852 - 400 pages
...children should bs conye.-sen* with roechanics, and with what are called the meGhanicil powers. Oerteinly no species of knowledge is better suited to the taste...the notions which they have of their respective uses is unsatisfactory and indistinct, and many endeavour, at a late period of life, to acquire a scientific... | |
| Education - 1914 - 898 pages
...Natural and Experimental Philosophy are Fully Explained," we find this general statement, "Parents are anxious that children should be conversant with...what are called the mechanical powers. Certainly no specie of knowledge is better suited to the taste and capacity of youth and yet it seldom forms a part... | |
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