Robert and Frederick: A Book for Boys

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H.G.Bohn, 1853

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Página 163 - ... recently resurrected); concert recitation, and teaching geography by singing (how the latter raged like a roaring whirlwind, while from hundreds of schoolrooms came the doggerel song !); counting in penmanship; individual instruction (which has ever been the chief work of the competent teacher); counting one for a comma, two for a semicolon, three for a colon, four for a period, etc. In teaching reading, the battle has been on with the Pollard system, the phonetic system, and large editions of...
Página 266 - Warning once, warning twice, warning three times over; a bushel of wheat, a bushel of rye, when the cock crows, out jump 1 1 — Cock-a-doodle-doo! — Warning!" He then runs out, and touches the first he can overtake, who must return to bounds with him. These two then (first crying "Warning...
Página 79 - For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous.
Página 160 - Moss was a little disconcerted at the sight of three legs of mutton, all roasted, one at the top, one in the middle, and the other at the bottom of the table. ' Three legs of mutton !' he thought ;
Página 206 - God commendeth his love towards us, in that whilst we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
Página 319 - God, and of that greatest, sweetest work in sending his Son to die for the sins of the world. It...
Página 42 - ... he would not write it ; he was not quite sure that his mother would not rise against such open rebellion ; and he felt quite certain that, in case of such rebellion, his aunt would take part against him. His mother had, as she boasted, cultivated his reasoning powers, and thus he was using...
Página 4 - Will you, then, my dear sister, either speak or write to Mr. Halford ; and if he can take my boy next half year, and if you will be troubled with me and Clara and Mademoiselle for a few days, we will bring Fred down about three weeks before the termination of the holidays, and then I shall not only have the pleasure of seeing you, but of getting acquainted with your children ; and after we are gone, Fred will have the advantage of becoming accustomed to Eobert before they go to school.

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