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abuse animal propensities Archbishop of Dublin Archbishop Whately attainment attended benevolence called capital punishment cation character child chymistry confinement constitution convict course Cramond criminal delight derangement direct disease Edinburgh EFFICIENT PROTECTION enlightened epilepsy evidence evil example excited exercise existence faculties feeling Greek habits happiness higher HOMICIDAL INSANITY Howison human ignorance improvement impulse individual INFANT EDUCATION Infant School inferior inferior feelings infliction instruction intellectual and moral John Howison judicious justice knowledge labour Lecouffe lectures lessons manifested manual-labour class means mechanical philosophy ment mental mind monomania moral sentiments moral training motive murder nature never objects observed operation penitentiary persons philosophy Phrenology physical practical present principle prisoner PROTECTION FROM CRIME punishment pupils reason reformation regulation relation religious render Scotland secondary punishments sect selfish sensual social society suffering teachers thing tion truth views whole witness words young
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Page 46 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 57 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Page 39 - O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy impart.
Page 69 - it is twice blessed — It blesses him that gives and him that takes," does he not utter beautiful poetry as well as unquestionable truth?
Page 57 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 46 - But under whose care soever a child is put to be taught, during the tender and flexible years of his life, this is certain, it should be one, who thinks. Latin and languages the least part of education...
Page 207 - President of the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons...
Page 210 - ... who for the most part discover their defect in excessive fears and griefs, and yet are not wholly destitute of the use of reason...
Page 68 - ... nothing in them amiable or exalted. They are as self-seeking as any of the nine animal propensities, and therefore may conveniently be classed with these, under the general denomination of the INFERIOR FEELINGS, to which, in the sequel of this work; it will often be necessary to allude.
Page 46 - Latin and language the least. part of education ; one, who knowing how much virtue, and a well-tempered soul, is to be preferred to any sort of learning or language, makes it his chief business to form the mind of his scholars and give that a right disposition...