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c red when I ' m very cold—when I ' m hot . ' c am comfortable when I ' m dead—^ when Fm in bed—when there is a dinner party . ' * I am gay when there is a dinner party , and on Sunday , because then I haven ' t got anything to do but what I like . '
< I am dirty in my way of eating . ' < I am white in the globe of my eye . ' < I am selfish when I shake the table . ' < I am delightful to S . * ' I am sad when somebody goes away . Don ' t I feel sad in my
face ' I V am cheerful when I am not sulky and not cold * I am bright when I am not dirty . ' ' I am hard in my chest . ' ' I am soft in my cheek . ' ' I am contrary to dead . ' ' I am trembling when I go into the bath . ' ' I am alive now . *
' I am kind often . ' ' I am strange now . ' f merry when S . is not angry on me . ' ' I am fit to sit down to dinner . ' * I am different from what I was . ' f proud when I have got new shoes . ' ' I am sulky when S . does not take hold of my hand—when S . is not fond of me . ' ' 1 am more than a bit . ' 'I am shameful when I beat a little boy like B . ' ' I am unjust when I go before C . in a race . ' In this manner he went through all the parts of speech , learning
the construction of sentences , and gaining at every step self-knowledge . It was most striking to watch the rapid developement of all his faculties under this discipline . His next book was a description of his body , on the plan of Pestalozzi ' s ' Manuel des Meres . —* I have a head , a face , a
forehead , a right eyebrow , a left eyebrow , a right upper eyelid / and so on . After going through the body in this way , simply naming the parts , he arranged them according to their number . Next he made a list of the parts of his body which are round and roundish . Then he took other qualities , such as colour , shiningness , fluidity , solidity , movability , immovability , flexibility , &c . When S , began to teach him arithmetic , it seemed as if he never could be
made to understand it ; but—by using cubes instead of ciphers , or making him put dots on his slate instead of ciphers , by making everything tangible to him , by beginning at the very beginning and taking every step without presuming to omit one—it all became clear and delightful to him , and he was able to answer very difficult questions in mental arithmetic . We refer those who wish to know
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No . 96 . 3 Q
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 861, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/43/
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