The Little Schools of Port-Royal

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University Press, 1913 - 263 Seiten
 

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Seite 56 - ... very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children. They say nay in word, but they do so in deed; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings.
Seite 190 - Il n'est pas bien honnête, et pour beaucoup de causes, Qu'une femme étudie et sache tant de choses. Former aux bonnes mœurs l'esprit de ses enfants, Faire aller son ménage, avoir l'œil sur ses gens, Et régler la dépense avec économie, Doit être son étude et sa philosophie.
Seite 56 - And it is a pity, that commonly more care is had, yea and that among very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse, than a cunning man for their children.
Seite 189 - L'épouse que tu prends , sans tache en sa conduite , Aux vertus , m'at-on dit , dans Port-Royal instruite , Aux lois de son devoir règle tous ses désirs.
Seite 102 - La gloire. — L'admiration gâte tout dès l'enfance. Oh! que cela est bien dit! Oh! qu'il a bien fait, qu'il est sage! etc «Les enfants de Port-Royal, auxquels on ne donne point cet aiguillon d'envie et de gloire, tombent dans la nonchalance.
Seite 247 - Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre facilement et en peu de temps la langue latine...
Seite 107 - The latter half of the ijth century was full of complaints as to the time spent in learning Latin and full also of short ways, but no one then or for 150 years after doubted its absolute necessity. John Sturm states the case thus : — " Romanus sermo per omnes nationes et populos et regna commeat. Neque usquam gentium venias ubi non Latinum hospitem invenias qui viam proficiscenti monstret. Adeo linguam hanc hospitalem esse voluit Deus quam late terrarum orbis patet, hominibus.
Seite 98 - And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Seite 88 - ... pupils. The first was perhaps the more important of the two, for it led to the beginnings of child study. Coustel, for example, enunciates the principle that the teacher must take account of the differences of mental type displayed by his pupils. " If a physician cannot prescribe remedies suitable for the healing of the body without knowing its various temperaments, and if a farmer ought not to set about sowing a field without knowing the quality of its soil, then beyond doubt a schoolmaster...
Seite 194 - ... and is referred to by Cornelius Agrippa, de occulta philosophia, i. 70. Hippocrates also, de arte medendi, § 2, puts it that forms are natural but that words are made by custom. Again, this dispute is intended as a caricature of keeping an act in the Paris University. "The process", says Mr Tilley, "is hardly more absurd, the result not a whit more barren, than many of the disputations which took place in the Paris schools

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