Babyhood: Devoted Exclusively to the Care of Infants and Young Children, Volume 7Babyhood Magazine, 1891 - Child care |
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Page 286 - new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth. They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast with truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 285 - created the heaven and the earth, » * » and God said : Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so.
Page 179 - The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice; And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace
Page 260 - custom which lies upon us with a weight " Heavy as frost and deep almost as life," and to bring out in every child something of that fresh originality of mind which, when it is found, makes even ignorant persons agreeable companions
Page 381 - There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd, the soldier, the sailor, and the shepherd not infrequently ; the artist rarely ; rarer still the clergyman ; the physician almost as a rule.
Page 180 - He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest; In the nice ear of Nature, which song is the best?"
Page 100 - of the anatomy is controlled by the nerves. Imperfect nutrition and development are the natural results which follow restlessness and sleeplessness. No one can doubt the intimate association between rest and growth ; in fact, they appear on a superficial view to stand to each other in the relation of cause and effect. Accurate observation of the animal and vegetable world
Page 180 - The sulphurous rifts of passion and woe Lie deep 'neath a silence pure and smooth, Like burnt-out craters healed with snow.
Page 138 - each individual has inherited from his ancestors, how much there is that is not produced by sense-impressions, and how false is the supposition that man learns to feel, to will and to think only through his senses. Heredity is just as important as individual activity in the genesis of mind.
Page 274 - The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread and lives along the line.