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fatigue them, merely from their not having yet awakened themselves to business. We must be certain of our pupil's state of mind before we proceed. If he be incapacitated from fatigue, let him rest; if he be torpid, rouse him with a rattling peal of thunder; but be sure that you have not, as it has been said of Jupiter,21 recourse to your thunder only when you are in the wrong. Some preceptors scold when they cannot explain, and grow angry in proportion to the fatigue they see expressed in the countenance of their unhappy pupils. If a timid child foresees that an explanation will probably end in a phillipic, he cannot fix his attention; he is anticipating the evil of your anger, instead of listening to your demonstrations; and he says, "Yes, yes, I see, I know, I understand," with trembling eagerness, whilst through the mist and confusion of his fears, he can scarcely see or hear, much less understand, any thing. If you mistake the confusion and fatigue of terror for inattention or indolence, and press your pupil to further exertions, you will confirm, instead of curing, his stupidity. You must diminish his fear before you can increase his attention. With children who are thus, from timid anxiety to please, disposed to exert their faculties too much, it is obvious that no excitation should be used, but every playful, every affectionate means should be employed to dissipate their apprehensions.

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      Letters for Literary Ladies.

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      Dr. Fothergill.

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      Dr. Beddoes.

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      We are indebted to Dr. Beddoes for this idea.

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Letters for Literary Ladies.

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Dr. Fothergill.

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Dr. Beddoes.

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We are indebted to Dr. Beddoes for this idea.

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We do not mean to do injustice to Mrs. Raffeld's professional skill.

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V. Diderot's ingenious preface to "Chymie de gout et de l'odorat."

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Some of these lessons, and others by the authors, will shortly be printed, and marked according to this method.

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See Priestley's History of Vision, vol. i. p. 51.

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"Art de Penser."

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See Condillac's Art de Penser. In the chapter "on the use of signs," this young man is mentioned.

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Vol. II.

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Rousseau.

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V. Preface to Berthollet's Chemical Nomenclature.

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V. Condillac's "Art de Penser."

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Major Cartwright. See his Journal, &c.

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V. Chapter on Mechanics.

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V. Adela and Theodore.

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Chapter on Tasks.

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Zoonomia, vol. i. page 435.

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Cicero.

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Lucian.

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Lucian.