Practical Education, Volume II

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V. Chapter on Attention.

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Mrs. Piozzi.

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V. Blair.

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V. Plutarch.

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Valpy's Exercises.

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V. Darwin's Poetry.

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Since the above was written, we have seen a letter from Dr. Aikin to his son on the morality and poetic merit of the fable of Circe, which convinces us that the observations that we have hazarded are not premature.

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Chapter on Imagination.

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We speak of these engravings as beautiful, for the times in which they were done; modern artists have arrived at higher perfection.

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Darwin. V. Botanic Garden.

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V. Gray's Memoria Technica, and the Critic.

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Instead of

William the conqueror long did reign,And William his son by an arrow was slain.

Read,

William the Consau long did reign,And Rufkoi his son by an arrow was slain.

And so on from Gray's Memoria Technica to the end of the chapter.

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Page 24.

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V. A strange instance quoted by Mr. Stewart, "On the Human Mind," page 152.

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NOTE.

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The word calculate is derived from the Latin calculus, a pebble.

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This method is recommended in the Cours de Math, par Camus, p. 38.

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Plutarch. – Life of Dion.

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V. Rivuletta, a little story written entirely by her in 1786.

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When this question was sometime afterwards repeated to S – , he observed, that the feather would throw down the castle, if its swiftness were so great as to make up for its want of weight.

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Were it thought necessary to make these experiments perfectly accurate, a segment of a pulley, the radius of which is half the length of the scale-beam, should be attached to the end of the beam; upon which the cord may apply itself, and the pulley (P 3) should be raised or lowered, to bring the rope horizontally from the man's shoulder when in the attitude of drawing.

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The word power is here used in a popular sense, to denote the strength or efficacy that is employed to produce an effect by means of any engine.

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In all these experiments with the skeleton-pulley, somebody must keep it in its proper direction; as from its structure, which is contrived for illustration, not for practical use, it cannot retain its proper situation without assistance.

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In a loom this secondary lever is called a lamb, by mistake, for lam; from lamina, a slip of wood.

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There should be three rollers used; one of them must be placed before the sledge, under which it will easily find its place, if the bottom of the sledge near the foremost end is a little sloped upwards. To retain this foremost roller in its place until the sledge meets it, it should be stuck lightly on the road with two small bits of wax or pitch.

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Mechanical advantage is not a proper term, but our language is deficient in proper technical terms. The word power is used so indiscriminately, that it is scarcely possible to convey our meaning, without employing it more strictly.

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In this experiment, the boy should pull as near as possible to the shaft, within a foot of it, for instance, else he will have such mechanical advantage as cannot be counterbalanced by any weight which the machine would be strong enough to bear.

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V. Barne's Essay on public and private education. Manchester Society.

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V. Mr. Frend's Principles of Algebra.

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V. Williams's Lectures on Education.

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Une virtuose.

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V. Storia di quattro fratelli nati ciechi e guariti coll' estrazione delle cateratte. – Di Francesco Buzzi.

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V. Zoonomia.

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This word is sometimes by mistake spelt fugal-man.

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Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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Condillac.

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V. Letters for Literary Ladies.

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V. Plutarch. Quintilian.

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Berington's History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa, page 173.

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Eloge de M. L'Abbé d'Alary.

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Marquis d'Argenson's Essays, page 385.

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D'Alembert's Eloge de M. d'Alary.

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Curiosities of Literature, vol. ii. page 145.

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Priestley on Electricity, page 317.

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Fuller, author of the Worthies of England. See Curiosities of Literature, vol. i.

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V. Chapter on Books, and on Geography.

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Dr. Darwin. Zoonomia.

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At the end of the History of Vision.

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"Nov. 7, 1749. Electrical fluid agrees with lightning in these particulars. 1. Giving light. 2. Colour of the light. 3. Crooked direction. 4. Swift motion. 5. Being conducted by metals. 6. Crack or noise in exploding. 7. Subsisting in water or ice. 8. Rending bodies it passes through. 9. Destroying animals. 10. Melting metals. 11. Firing inflammable substances. 12. Sulphureous smell. The electric fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property is in lightning. But since they agree in all the particulars wherein we can already compare them, is it not probable they agree likewise in this? Let the experiment be made."

Dr. Franklin's Letters, page 322.

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Helvetius, "Sur l'Esprit."

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See preface to L'Esprit des Romains considéré.

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See the account in the Monthly Review.

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He had tried to sing it to the tune of "Hope, thou nurse of young desire."

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Priestley on Vision, vol. i. page 23.

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V. Hooke's Posthumous Works.

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Hooke's Mycrographia, p. 62.

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Priestley has ably given the desiderata of electricity, vision, &c.

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Wharton's Ode to Fancy.

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Gerard.

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Lord Kames.

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Professor Stewart.

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V. An excellent essay of Mr. Barnes's on Imagination. Manchester Society, vol. i.

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It is to be hoped that the foreign philosophers, who, it is said, are now employed in drawing up a new metaphysical nomenclature, will avail themselves of the extensive knowledge, and original genius of the author of Zoonomia.

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Akenside.

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"Know there are words and spells which can control,Between the fits, the fever of the soul."Pope.

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Peter of Cortona.

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V. Epea Pteroenta, p. 88.

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Chapter on Grammar.

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V. Camper's Works, p. 126.

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V. Chapter on Books.

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Lord Mansfield, Hussey Burgh, &c.

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Theon.

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"But, Sir, I shall be taken for one possessed!"

"Well, Ma'am, you must be like one possessed, if you would succeed in any art."

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Dr. Darwin.

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"I am the god of dancing!"

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V. Smith's Moral Theory.

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Temperament of increased association. Zoonomia.

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V. Zoonomia. Temperament of increased sensibility and association joined.

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Zoonomia, vol. ii.

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Monthly Review of Zimmermann on Experience in Physic. March 1783, p. 211.

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V. Chapter on Attention.

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Elwes. See his Life.

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There is an account of this poor man's death in the Star, 1796.

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V. Chapter on Attention.

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V. Tasks.

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Chapter on Acquaintance.

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V. Stewart.

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A Naturalist's Calendar, by the late Rev. Gilbert White, M. A. published by Dr. Aikin, printed for B. and J. White, Fleet Street.

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V. Deinology; where there are many entertaining examples of the figures of rhetoric.

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Une dèmonstration est donc une suite de propositions, ou les mêmes idées passant de l'une à l'autre, ne différent que parce qu'elles sont énonceès différement; et l'évidence d'un raisonnement consiste uniquement dans l'identité. V. Art de Raisonner, p. 2.

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V. Chapter on Books.

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V. Chapter on Imagination.

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V. Attention.

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Locke. Essay on the Conduct of the Human Understanding.

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Here lies the mutton eating king;Whose promise none relied on;Who never said a foolish thing,And never did a wise one.Epitaph on Charles 2d.

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V. Taste and Imagination.

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Darwin's Zoonomia.

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Chapter on Imagination.

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Charles VI.

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"No penance can absolve their guilty fame,Nor tears, that wash out sin, can wash out shame."

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V. Persian Tales.

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V. Chapter on Temper.

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Mrs. Piozzi's English Synonymy, vol. i. p. 359.

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V. Toys.

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Lord Scarsdale's. Keddleston.

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V. Chapter on Sympathy and Sensibility.

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V. Edwards' History of the West Indies.

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V. a note in page 32 of the Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis.

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"Turn from the glittering bribe your scornful eye,Nor sell for gold what gold can never buy."Johnson's London.

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Emilius.

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"Another spring, another race supplies." Pope's Homer.

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Mrs. Honora Edgeworth, daughter of Edward Sneyd, Esq. of Litchfield. As this lady's name has been mentioned in a monody on the death of Major André, we take this opportunity of correcting a mistake that occurs in a note to that performance.

"Till busy rumour chas'd each pleasing dream,And quench'd the radiance of the silver beam."Monody on Major André.

The note on these lines is as follows:

"The tidings of Honora's marriage. Upon that event Mr. André quitted his profession as a merchant, and joined our army in America."

Miss Honora Sneyd was married to Mr. Edgeworth in July, 1773, and the date of Major André's first commission in the Welch Fusileers is March 4th, 1771.

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This has been formerly quoted in the preface to the Parent's Assistant.

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The anecdotes mentioned in the preceding pages, were read to the children with the rest of the work.

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Soame Jennings's.

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Voltaire.

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V. Johnson's Life of Browne.

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Parent's Assistant.