 | Maria Edgeworth - Child rearing - 1801 - 366 pages
...friends, or the public, to reflect, that he had been in joining-hand before he was five years old. As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed...or by dint of reiterated pain and terror, the names names of the four-and-twenty letters of the alphabet, are,, perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Children - 1801 - 456 pages
...it is ufually managed, it is a dreadful tafk indeed to learn, and if poffible a more dreadful tafk to teach, to read : with the help of counters, and...and terror, the names of the four and twenty letters of the alphabet are perhaps ;n the courfe of fome weeks firmly fixed in the pupil's memory. So much... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1811 - 522 pages
...friends, or the public to reflect , that he had been in joining-hand before he was five years old. As, it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed...and terror, the names of the four and twenty letters of the alphabet are perhaps in the course of some weeks firmly fixed in the pupil's memory. So much... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1815 - 512 pages
...his friends, or the public to reflect, that he had been in joining-hand before he was five years old. As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed...and terror, the names of the four and twenty letters of the alphabet are perhaps in the course of some weeks firmly fixed in the pupil's memory. So much... | |
 | Education - 1827 - 554 pages
...encounter in learning to read in the usual method, are described by him in the following manner. " As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed...dint of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the four-andtwenty letters of the alphabet are, perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly fixed in the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1835 - 574 pages
...friends, or the public, to reflect, that he had been in joining-hand before he was five years old. As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed...dint of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the four-and-twenty letters of the alphabet are, perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly fixed in... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1835 - 570 pages
...grammar, and a number of other disagreeable things; therefore, we must give them tasks and taskmasters. As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed...read. With the help of counters, and coaxing, and In all these assertions, perhaps, we shall find a mixture of truth and error; therefore, we had better... | |
 | Charles Mayo - 1837 - 126 pages
...memory. Thus he says, dog, and then is told, that these letters spell dog. On the plan we would re1 As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed to leam, and, if possible, a more dreadful task to teach to read : with the help of counters, and coaxing... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Education - 1843 - 50 pages
...described by the EDGEWORTHS in their " Practical Education," that we shall transcribe the entire passage : As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed...and terror, the names of the four and twenty letters of the alphabet are, perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly fixed in the pupil's memory. So much... | |
 | Joshua Frederick Denham - 1848 - 192 pages
...are stated in the following quotation from Miss Edgeworth's " Practical System of Education :" — " As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed to learn, and, if possible, a still more dreadful task to teach, to read. With the help of counters, coaxing, and gingerbread, and... | |
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As, it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed to learn, and if possible a more dreadful task to teach to read: with the help of counters, and coaxing, and gingerbread, or by dint of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the... 
