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* Sun is a round thing in the sky , and it i 3 very light indeed . ' * Lane is a little path that people go through . ' Some people have a round face , and some a bad face , and some a long face . * Blade is a thing that knives have . *
* Some boys eat breakfast , and dinner , and lea . Some people have not enough to eat ; well boys and poor boys , and hungry boys , like to eat ; and great boys . ' € Some ladies buy little boys baskets . ' * Once there came a boy and girl here , and H . shied at them . ' Was shy , he meant . ' Some boys know something , and say they don ' t ; and other boys say , Yes . ' e Some boys ask other boys if they will tell their secrets . ' ' Some boys say to other boys , Lay you a guinea . ' ' Some ladies have trays , and they ask their cook to bring them up . ' * Ladv Macbeth locked the door . '
' Tom Thumb ( his rabbit ) eats groundsel . ' These are enough , and perhaps more than enough , to show the sort of lessons by which it was endeavoured to lead this child on to thought . By the time he had gone through a copy book , in this way , he was able to read Miss Edgeworth ' s Frank , to write with ease , and he had wonderfully improved in power of fixing his attention .
His next four books were intended as a grammar course . He began with verbs— ' I run , I walk , I dawdle , I love , &c . ; he found out , and wrote down twelve a day , and in this way collected 400 verbs . The second grammar book was a list of nouns . ' I am a boy , a dawdle , a coward , a lad , a child , a wheeler , puller , peeler , runner , rider , ** and he went on in this way until he had found out upwards of 200 nouns . The third grammar book was of adjectives , and a very curious list he made out . There are more than 300 of them ; . and it was found necessary , in order to make plain to his teacher and himself his meaning , to require of him a sentence . A few extracts will be of avail to show what must have been the effect of this lesson on the boy : ' I am cowardly when I don ' t like fighting—before I go into the bath—when Fm deceitful . ' I am happy when I see mamma—when they don ' t fight with me—when they dance . ' ' I am made when I was a little child . ' ' I am good when I do my lessons—when I don ' t hide . ' 'I am wicked when I go and see wicked people—hunt the squirrel . ' 'I am young now . ' ' I am round all about me . ' ' I am manageable by S . '
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860 Memoranda of Observations
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 860, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/42/
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