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No . I . —Impancy . The child ' s head rested on her arm , and his deep blue eyes . a « •¦ . ^ m « * -m
were fixed upon her face , with a gaze so inquiring , and yet so confiding , that her eye fell beneath his , and her heart trembled as it would have done if some heavenly being had come under the form of childhood , and asked her to guide him pure , and even more than ever exalted , through this mortal life . ' My beautiful ! ' said she , ' why dost thou scan every lineament of my
face , as if I were thy destiny , and thou would ' st read it ere beginning to fulfil it ! How thoughtful is thy brow even now ; and how much stronger thy will than thy power—the eye longs for the curl that my bending head brings near thee , but the little hand knows not yet how to reach the mark . Such is the fate that must
attend thee through life ! Such is the difficulty of arriving at the good we see and desire , that even as I press thee to my heart , and vow myself to thy service , and picture to myself the being I would make thee , I know not the means by which thou art to become that beincr . r
So spoke the young mother ; and she fell into a long reverie ; and dark mists interposed themselves whenever she would have built up a system of education . At length she resolved to try to become a child—to enter into the child ' s nature , and merely to lend it the aid of her physical strength , and of her affection .
The next morning after she had come to this determination , she heard loud cries issuing from the nursery . Upon going into the room , she saw the baby kicking and screaming , while the nurse was vainly endeavouring to tie on his cap . She reflected , that it must be very bad for him to have this daily irritation ; and upon consulting good medical authority , found that the cap mi ght surely he left oft , as the weather was hot . It was impressed upon her , however , that warmth is much needed for the young infant , and that for this reason the babies in India are very beautiful , and thrive welL Ilavhu ? abandoned the cap duriug the summer , it
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the bishop and the wife of the curate , are extant ; but , as they displayed too much of the incoherency of grief and indignation on the one side , and of heartless insensibility and pious evasion on the other , ( if a greater degree than we have already given can be supposed possible , ) it has been thought best not to publish them . We have to conclude our melancholy task , by announcing the death of the curate , which occurred a few weeks since . He was buried at the expense of the parish ; but his family have not yet been admitted to the workhouse . R . H . H .
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MEMORANDA OF OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS IN EDUCATION ,
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No . 91 . 2 M
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Observations and Experimen t * in Education . All
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/17/
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