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الصفحة 1 - An' set your beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie's makin ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin ! O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.
الصفحة 86 - It is only an outline. How much remains untold, — how much of warning, of tender solicitude, of maternal soothing for the aching head ! Who that has travelled the long life of toil and disappointment, has not sighed to lay his head in his mother's lap, and become again a little child? We have given this imperfect 'sketch, because we think every mother in this land of blessings has the power of accomplishing as much. Mrs Colman was Bible-taught, and taught her children from the Bible. She did not...
الصفحة 71 - ... composed. The soul is not carried away by outward things, so that it cannot make all necessary reflections; neither does it make those continual references to self, that a jealous sense of its own excellence multiplies to infinity. That freedom of the soul...
الصفحة 78 - Damrell,of this city, and noticed in a former number.] It is generally supposed to be almost an impossibility,'— though there are striking instances to the contrary,—for mothers to retain their influence and authority over a family of boys. Many a widowed mother gives up in despair, without a trial, and either lets them run heedlessly to ruin, or calls in the aid of unfeeling task-masters. O, mothers! delegate not to others the duties which God has given you to perform! Watch over your boys with...
الصفحة 82 - The children, though boys, had their household duties to perform. One brought water for his mother; another cut and split her wood ; all had their active and important employments; all felt that they were parts in the machinery of the whole. When the hour for school arrived, and the boys, with their satchels on their backs,—not " creeping like snails," as our immortal poet hath it, but bounding over the greensward,—pursued their way to the schoolhouse.
الصفحة 83 - ... hath it, but bounding over the greensward,—pursued their way to the schoolhouse. Then came the mother's hour of labor; and with it all the active domestic duties. Perhaps it might be the necessary employments of washing or ironing; for all had their turn. Perhaps brightening her saucepans; or something else of the never-ending routine of woman's work. All was attended to, all arranged in the best order, and all done with that cheerful spirit which makes labor light. After school, the boys
الصفحة 80 - ... with prevailing order,—her task will be greatly lightened. We do not recommend Mrs Colman's method as an exact pattern to any one, because all have appropriate duties; but we do commend her principle of order. It may be interesting to some mothers in a similar situation, to give a general outline. It was her custom to rise early in the morning, both winter and summer. She was no philosopher, and had never made a calculation similar to Franklin's, of how much ti e might be saved by early rising...
الصفحة 80 - Many an active housewife, who labors early and late, accomplishes much less than she would otherwise do, for the want of method. If every hour has its appropriate employment, and one general system presides over the whole,—not with slavish exactness, but with prevailing order,—her task will be greatly lightened. We do not recommend Mrs Colman's method as an exact pattern to any one, because all have appropriate duties; but we do commend her principle of order. It may be interesting to some mothers...
الصفحة 1 - ... most important subjects, scientific, literary and professional, by some twenty or thirty learned professors. This excellent establishment, in which are usually educated more than 1,000 pupils of all ages, is supported exclusively by a population of about 80,000. NOTICES OF BOOKS. THE CONTRAST; or Modes of Education. By the Author of ' Three Experiments of Living,' ' Elinor Fulton,' and
الصفحة 78 - Contrast,' published by Whipple & Damrell,of this city, and noticed in a former number.] It is generally supposed to be almost an impossibility,'— though there are striking instances to the contrary,—for mothers to retain their influence and authority over a family of boys. Many a widowed mother gives up in despair, without a trial, and either lets them run heedlessly to ruin, or calls in the aid of unfeeling task-masters. O, mothers! delegate not to others the duties which God has...