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Updated: June 2, 2025
Its value would consist in the pleasure you would take in playing with it. “Now, it is generally best to buy such playthings as you can use a great many times, and in a great many ways; such as a top, a ball, a knife, a wheelbarrow. But things that please you only by their novelty, will soon lose all their power to give you pleasure, and be good for nothing to you.
She provided it with an engraved portrait of that Holy Nail which was venerated in the neighboring church of San Pantaleon; and she apparently aimed to supply it with playthings of a religious and saving character like that piece of ivory, which resembled a small torso, and which Bettina described as "A bit of the Lord, Signor," and it was, in fact, a fragment of an ivory crucifix, which she had somewhere picked up.
That YOUR very Self be in your action, as the mother is in the child: let that be YOUR formula of virtue! Verily, I have taken from you a hundred formulae and your virtue's favourite playthings; and now ye upbraid me, as children upbraid. They played by the sea then came there a wave and swept their playthings into the deep: and now do they cry.
He hunted to find her belongings. He found a few clothes. There was no receptacle in which he could pack them. He folded them and crowded the articles in his pockets. He stuffed in the doll and the rude playthings and hooked the basket doll-carriage upon his arm. She did not waken when he picked her up.
They bury with their dead all of the belongings of the deceased, the playthings of the Indian child, for the Indian boy and girl have dolls and balls and baubles as does the white child: you may see them all pendent from the poles of the scaffold or the boughs of a tree.
In less than an hour I had broken the playthings in an attempt to discover what they were made of. ‘When I was eight years of age my uncle the baronet, who was also my godfather, sent me a pair of Norway hawks, with directions for managing them; he was a great fowler.
It looked like a nursery basket containing broken odds and ends of playthings. "Now look here, Captain, though the thing is but begun at present, yet there is enough to show that one idea at least of yours is not feasible."
How much had he not to amuse him, and to play with! The entire seashore, for miles in length, was covered with playthings for him a mosaic of pebbles red as coral, yellow as amber, and pure white, round as birds' eggs, all smoothed and polished by the sea.
I have known boys to buy masks to frighten other children with, and bows and arrows, which sometimes are the means of putting out children’s eyes. So you must consider, when you are choosing playthings, first, whether the pleasure they will give you will be from the novelty or the use; and, secondly, whether, in giving you pleasure, they will give any other persons pain.
in that modest dwelling we were just looking at, not glorious, yet not unlovely in the youth of its drab and mahogany, full of great and little boys' playthings from top to bottom, in all these summer or winter nests he was always at home and always welcome.
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