...backward in intellectual development, are set down to read detached passages out of Standard Authors. Tfae reading lessons which we want, are compositions written...conduct, the great principles made known to us by Divine Bevelation. This description appears to me to apply to the following lessons. These are the ends the...

...elementary knowledge in a form fitted to excite interest and curiosity ; introducing common-sense remaning on the ordinary matters of life ; associating knowledge...children — apart from interest or pleasure— and ecer, whether expressly or by implication, bringing to bear on the heart and conduct the great principles...

...fitted to excite interest and curiosity ; introducing common-sense reasoning on the ordinary mailers of life ; associating knowledge with every-day business,...apart from interest or pleasure — and ever, whether exprestly or by implication, bringing to bear on the heart and conduct the great principles made known...

...children without being childish, sensible without being dull, giving elementary knowledge in a form Jilted to excite interest and curiosity; introducing common-sense...with every-day business, instead of leaving it in the cloud-- land, where it rests with most child, en — apart from interest or pleasure — and ever,...