 It is in vain to load the understanding with rules, if the affections are not pure. In the first place, it is not possible to make rules enough to apply to all manner of cases; and if it were possible, a child would soon forget them. But if you inspire...  The Mother's Book - Page 22by Lydia Maria Child - 1831 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lydia Maria Child - Education - 1835 - 196 pages
...you angry, that your voice is always gentle, and the expression of your face always kind, is worth s thousand times more than all the rules you can give...they see her 'selfish, it makes them selfish; if they see her extremely anxious for the attention of wealthy people, they learn to think wealth is the only... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - Education - 1840 - 328 pages
...them. He ought, then, rather to endeavor to inspire right feelings, and they will govern his actions. If we love what is good, we shall think and do what is good. 3. When punishments are resorted to, care should be taken that they be not too severe. Unnecessary... | |
 | David C. Miller - Art - 1993 - 356 pages
...reformers as the popular novelist and essayist Lydia Maria Child, who insisted as early as 1831 that "all our thoughts and actions come from our affections;...reference to them, as by the general effect of our characters."10 Heman Humphrey might have agreed with this last statement about how children are influenced... | |
 | David Brion Davis - History - 1997 - 502 pages
...possible, a child would soon forget them. But if you inspire him with right feelings, they will govem his actions. All our thoughts and actions come from...they see her selfish, it makes them selfish; if they see her extremely anxious for the attention of wealthy people, they leam to think wealth is the only... | |
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