 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1875 - 362 páginas
...magnified by Watts as to confer upon him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others may be...deficiency in his duty if this book is not recommended." And in another paragraph of his memoir Johnson says: " For children he condescended to lay aside the... | |
 | 1885 - 686 páginas
...hundred and fifty years ago, and it is still one of the best books of its kind. Dr. Johnson said of it, " Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be...deficiency in his duty, if this book is not recommended." We studied it with much interest and profit, in the winter of 1851-2, while teaching a country school.... | |
 | 1885 - 724 páginas
...hundred and fifty years ago, and it is still one of the best books of its kind. Dr. Johnson said of it, " Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be...deficiency in his duty, if this book is not recommended." We studied it with much interest and profit, in the winter of 1851-2, while teaching a country school.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1885 - 288 páginas
...OF MENTAL AND MO11AL, SCIENCE, AN1) DIDACTICS, IN TI1U STATE UNIVERS1TY Ol' IOWA t "Whoever has tlie care of instructing others, may be charged with Deficiency in his duty, if this book is not recommended." — DK. JOHNSON , try AH Iiarues A C'u PREFACE. x ! ^T^HE Improvement of the Mind by Doctor Watts is... | |
 | David Murray - 1899 - 402 páginas
...and published at Lausanne. Dr. Johnson not only acknowledges his own indebtedness to it, but adds, "Whoever has the care of instructing others may be...charged with deficiency in his duty if this book is not commended." Isaac Watts was not a university man. The Independents of England, in his day, had to rely... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 páginas
...authorities Dr. Johnson said of it, " Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than this, and whoever has the care of instructing others may be charged with deficiency, if this book is not recommended." As a theologian he displayed unaffected piety, purity of principles,... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1914 - 382 páginas
...his spare moments. " Few books," says Johnson, " have been perused by me with greater pleasure. . . . Whoever has the care of instructing others may be...deficiency in his duty if this book is not recommended." They certainly may ; and the book is as fresh now as it was when it came spick and span from the binder's,... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 páginas
...ramified by Watts, as to confer upon him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be charged with deficiency in his duty if this work is not recommended." Watts's views on the question of recreation for the child were singularly... | |
 | Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - 1999 - 360 páginas
...Mind as a model pedagogical text and pronounced that it was reprehensible in a teacher to neglect it: 'Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be...deficiency in his duty if this book is not recommended.' 64 Despite the dissenting background of Gainsborough's father, Gainsborough attended a Church of England... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 2001 - 580 páginas
...ramified by Watts, as to confer upon him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be...deficiency in his duty if this book is not recommended." We are now to take some notice of the Doctor's Theological writings, which for their number and value,... | |
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Mind," of which the radical principles may indeed be found in Locke's ' Conduct of the Understanding ;' but they are so expanded and ramified by Watts, as to confer upon him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. 
